Old Carpenter Stunned to Learn the Best Tool For Cutting Carpet! 

Gosh I love this channel. Instead of ME spending hours testing, waffling, and procrastinating until I have spent twice the cost and about ten times longer than just doing it the "dumb" way with whatever I have lying around, you do all that hard work, spend even more time editing it down to a 6 minute video, and serve it up on a silver platter. The only downside is people are going to want me to do more if I start going faster.....

“Never cut up a deer with a spoon” Thought provoking and hilarious at the same time!! Love the videos as always!!

linoleum/hook knifes are still a really important tool for installers. I never have used one to actually make cuts in carpet but i can use the other side of it to tuck carpet behind tack strip, get up staples on stairs, if a previous installer used shallow nails to install tack strip on wood i can use it as a pry tool to quickly pry it up, and it is actually very good for carpet tiles because you can really get under them and then finish with pillars or your hands depending on how badly its glued down.

For goodness sake fold it back and cut it from the back. I've torn out thousands if yards of carpet doing flooring work for over fifty years. Always cut it from the back and cut in manageable width strips. easy to pick up and carry out

One of the very few times that I used a link in a video description and actually bought a product. Thanks for the tip, mate. Your videos are really great stuff ❤

Nice video this is reminding me of the time I removed carpet from a 6000 ft² house in Chicago in the winter all by myself. I had to roll the carpet to carry to the dumpster and then unwrap it and lay it in sheets into the dumpster so I didn't take up all the space😂. Good times!

My go to is the Dewalt retractable utility knife with regular blades. I use it for everything which allows me to minimize specialty tools because my truck is already too full. I am interested in trying out the serrated blades though. I have never used them before.

I have carpet to cut out and was surprised to see this video. Saved me some money! Thank you a bunch!

Tried Captain Hook when I started my carpet removal. It was trash. I was amazed at just how well the standard utility knife worked. Dulls the corners fast though. I’ll try the serrated blade next time

Great info! Given how well the serrated utility knife did (and your comment about a serrated breadknife on tomatoes!), I wondered how a home serrated knife might do on the carpet!

Thank you so much. You saved me a lot of aggravation. I would have went with the hook thing

I’m not a Quitter 😂🤣 maybe? Excellent video!

The flat scraper blades, maybe sharpened, are great on oscillating tool's, I mostly use them for anything that's stuck to something else like carpet squares stuck on concrete or removing glue. They can be a bit destructive if you're not careful however.

This is a great tip. Thanks ! But I'm from Europe and we don't have carpets anymore. Haven't had them for the past 30 years or so, except in brothels (or so I've heard). If I ever emigrate to the U.S. your tip might come in handy. Keep up the good work !

If you're really itching to use a power tool for this kind of job a 3in cut wheel (i have the Ridgid 18v) Milwaukee Ryobi and DeWalt make one too, with a carbide crusted blade the ones for wood and plastic (diablo makes a good one) is fast and worked surprisingly well. Not sure that id use it to install haven't gotten good enough with it, but works well when we break down film sets at work to get it down to manageable rolls for the dumpster..

Great video. I struggled a few years back removing flood damaged carpet on concrete basement floor. Skip the circular saw, I've seen videos of people using angle grinders and those "blades" that have like 6 notches.

I have my fathers old tools and one of them is a linoleum knife. It doesn’t look like it would even cut soft butter now but it was my dad’s so I still have it. 💕

I used a multi tool on a Berber carpet and it sliced through with no issues.

I just cut out some carpets in a bedroom after reviewing your video, I agree with you that the serrated blade is more effective and easier than the carpet blade razor, ur the BEST!

one reason i ONLY use utility knives with on board storage is to SWITCH OUT to serrated blades, they are always around at HD, Lowes, etc. .. SFMF

I personally have had great success with a multitool and hook blade, but granted I haven't tried it on Berber. Also, tool speed and power might be a factor?

Best carpentry tips around!

It was a great test and nice that the best tool was one that everyone has around the house (except for the serrated edge blades). My only carpet cutting effort was a disaster. We had a beater van when my kids were little that we took camping. I wanted to add some foot comfort so cut myself some carpet to lay on the floor. I carefully layed down the carpet, face down and traced all around the edges of the unusual interior. Cut beautifully and then went to install. Needless to say, when you measure and cut on the back side, you're getting the exact opposite pattern that you want to use when flipped over. Doh!!! 🤦🏻‍♂

Thank you!

Didn’t know there were serated blades, thanks for the quick informative comparison.

Before this video, I thought circular-shaped blade would be a better choice! good to learn!!

great vid

Great reiew... dealing with this today and I was thinking of getting a multitool blade... not now though. Thanks for saving me..

I don’t use the “hook” blades for the multi tool instead I get a semi circle blade and grind it into a knife edge heat treat it and it cuts like a beast

I wonder how the circular saw would have worked if it has a blade without teeth, or kind of backwards blade with the other side sharp.

The best way to cut carpet is to pull back the carpet 3-4 feet from the wall exposing the back, once exposed cutting the from the other side is simple, I have never cut carpeting from the top/fiber side - This is the way!

Try clamping a utility knife blade in the multitool, best of both worlds.

Why didn’t you try a reciprocating saw upside down? It cuts like butter (with the right technique).

There's a big difference when cutting from the front of the pile versus the backing. What I'm struggling with now is trying to cut an extra thick padding.

Interesting, never seen those blades before. Whenecer I've done this job I usually have someone with me. Start the cut with any knife then 1 person stands on the side of the cut line, other person pulls the carpet up. It will tear in a straight line. Underlay is usually 1m wide strips anyway so no need to cut.

Here is a pro tip for you: learn how to sharpen your utility blades on a *coarse* stone. The resulting edge will be even better than the serrated blade because you are creating countless more serrations on the coarse stone. With a little practice you'll be able to sharpen the blades in about the same amount of time it takes to swap in new blade and safely dispose of the old one.

How about the multitool with the round blade? Angle grinder or mini angle grinder?

You left out one - a grinder with a cutting wheel. I just tried almost all of those until I tried the grinder with cutting wheel. It cut through the carpet like butter. I didn’t try the circ saw but all the rest were torture to use.

Try changing the blade on the circular saw, some thing smooth, think meat slicer,... 🤔 Maybe not, might lose fingers quite easily

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i'd imagine the circular saw would work a treat if theres such thing as a serrated thin edge circular saw blade. rather than the usual design with teeth. it needs to be more like a pizza cutter, so it doesn't snag on the carpet fibers.

Carpet blade is the only way to go. I stopped using serrated blades decades ago after taking months to heal from a cut. Serrated blades are the devils work.

yes, sir! Serated blade is a song! Though carpet knife is even better, it MAY be dangerous cause blade is all-the-time open and crazy sharp - so, if not for carpet installation it IS overkill for te most of diyers. What was my personal disappointment is multitool, even with serated knife - just too awkward and clumzy and short to use. My Milwaukee with serated knife is really great for the carpet. And Capitan Hooks - looks cool and dangerous, but sucks in real world scenarios - just like in the movie, lol

Bro... Like a ninja!

As a guy, I'm all for getting rid of carpet...:)

You can buy serrated snap off blades for the Olfa. And as for the multi tool, youre not really using it correctly. Dont lift the carpet. Just start it at the edge and run it along the carpet like the Olfa knife.

I quickly read some comments but none said THIS: It is a hundred times faster and easier if this carpet of cut from the back using any utility sharp knife!!! This dude doesn't even bring it up...

You may know a lot about carpentry but one thing you definitely know nothing about is tearing up basic carpet. First off when you rip it up you don’t cut the carpet and pad together makes it harder. Just cut the carpet with the carpet knife is the quickest and most efficient

You're doing youtube all wrong, you're supposed to make an expensive power tool or an uber-expensive hand tool win, and earn affiliate dollars.

And using that power tool, you got the blade in wrong. Don't have it straight off the end, have it at ninety degrease

This was disappointing. I need a carpet tool and I really don't like box cutters style at all.

this dude keeps making how to videos on things he has absolutely no idea how to do. I can tell by watching this that this guy has never installed carpet and yet here he is pretending to be an authority. He's using a pair of lineman's pliers to pull the carpet up when you can just pull it up by hand. And for some reason, he's trying to cut through both the pad and carpet at the same time, though there's no point in doing that. This dude holds up a carpet knife and boldly declares that a carpet knife is not the right tool to cut carpet, despite carpet layers using them for the last 100 years. All the old school guys that have been doing carpet forever use a carpet knife because you sharpen it instead of paying for disposable razor blades. . . And this guy is selling serrated razor blades that cost 6 bucks for 10 when the razor blades carpet layers use cost around 25 bucks for a box of 100. And he's selling some shitty utility knife that isn't fit for doing carpet because it only holds one blade and doesn't hold any extras in the handle. When you cut carpet, you turn it over and cut it from the back so you don't have to cut through all the fibers. much easier that way