I have pulled up the carpet to expose the padding and tack strip. I need to remove the tack strip so that the floor can be refinished. How do I remove it without damaging the wood floor planks?

I have pulled up the carpet to expose the padding and tack strip. I need to remove the tack strip so that the floor can be refinished. How do I remove it without damaging the wood floor planks?

You can save your knuckles some abuse and make the clean-up simpler by removing any carpet tacks or staples from the floor. To avoid damaging your floor, you should slide a wooden stir stick under ...

You can even use keybindings for placing and removing the map tacks - by default, Shift+A adds a tack, while Shift+D removes one, and Shift+S toggles the tacks' visibility on and off. It's a ...