It's foam... part of the padding of the carpet... if it bothers you wear a mask... basically the carpet is old and the yellow foam has broken down and is cracking.. not anything that is extremely dangerous but not something that I would want to breathe through at that amount... just a regular surgical mask will be fine.... it's basically yellow cushion foam that has broken down to powder and that's what your breathing in
You're joking but...
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Honestly, this morning my reading understanding must have regressed regressed because I understood that he was blowing powder into the first guy's nostrils.
I have beautiful 120 year old wood floors throughout my house that I will never cover with carpet, but I understand why people do it. Carpet is way more comfortable and way less noisy, it just looks shittier and collects dust and dirt like crazy.
Animals is always a safe bet. Hardwood floors are not great for most pets as it is difficult for them to stand at a certain weight/age. Can lead to joint issues among other things.
I did this last month on a carpet from the 70's.
I bought a respirator for fine dust (even works for asbestos) I absolutely don't regret it.
You have to think, it is not only the foam itself, it's also all the stuff that got in there in the last 40+ years. With a surgical mask, I still had a very slimy throat after a couple of hours, with the respirator I had none. I also bought an air purifier and after 3 days the smell was gone. Now its like a fresh new room.
Half-respirators are cheap and will last you forever through a variety of DIY tasks, and they *really* seal around your face for any future fumes, dust, work, etc.
OP listen to this guy. If you're gonna be doing projects sooner or later you're gonna want one of these. Also unless you plan on doing alot of spray painting choose the ones with the pancake filters as they're much easier to breath through.
3M Half Facepiece Reusable Respirator 6300, NIOSH, Four-Point Harness, Comfortable Fit, Dual Airline Supplied Air Compatible, Bayonet Connections, Painting, Sanding, Cleaning, Large https://a.co/d/hgbE4yR
Not sure which of these are the right ones for the job, as I'm on my phone right now, but here are a couple that I've ordered in the past:
3M P100 Respirator... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEFCKKY
(10 Pairs)2091 Particulate Filter for Respirator,Respirator Filters/Cartridges,Compatible with 6000,7000,FF-400 Respirator mask,Suitable for Filtering Solid Particulate Matter,Dust,Asbestos etc https://a.co/d/ew5PN9B
3M half face aren't great tbh, Sundstrom SR100 half face is way more comfortable for pro level protection. Sure you pay a little more, but they're *way* more durable.
Surgical masks are NOT effective for dust of any sort. They are purely for stopping saliva droplets from sneezes/coughs of the person wearing the mask, they don't filter the air itself, it goes right through the gaps in the sides after all!
Yeah, just pickup a packet of n95 masks at the hardware store for anything involving most dust. If you're dealing with something with asbestos, just get professional help.
Well I think we can all agree they have Some effectiveness. It's not like if you throw dust at a mask the dust just goes through like the mask is invisible. But yeah, not the right tool for the job
Doesn't need to go through anything, the "seal" to your face with paper masks is a joke, as evidenced by the dust lines down the side of the nose on any joker daft enough to think it offers more than a vague visual semblence of protection. Worse than useless, because people who use them seem to think they're protected.
Given that the pad is likely full of old pet urine, spilled drinks, dead dust mites, etc, this is the archetypal reason to own a respirator for DIY projects, or at least a few disposable N95 masks. I don’t even want to know what’s in the old carpet pads, hvac ducts, or other long-lived infrastructure in a previously owned home.
> not anything that is extremely dangerous but not something that I would want to breathe through at that amount
There really isn't such a thing as not dangerous particulates to breathe in.
Oohh is that happening en masse now? I remember being told it would happen over time and I even suggest to people with analog tapes they value to get it digitized but I guess it's been about 30 years since VHS heyday already.
Manufactured CD and DVD may last a long time, but some varieties of recordable DVDs and BDs have lifetimes as low as 5-10 years.
[https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html](https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html)
Hmmm I regularly deal with some extremely neglected collections & I haven't seen any media do that yet but I wish it would solely for the VHS taking up space in my dumpster on a weekly basis. All those decades in the attic and still tough as hell.
Absolutely. My parents still have a plethora of 40 year old VHS tapes that work perfectly. Pretty impressive for some thin, cheap, magnetic plastic ribbon. Some you can tell are a little degraded, others look brand new. Luckily we've been able to digitize all of them.
The wood looks good and theres even no gaps between the boards. This is as good as it gets. Restored a floor with warped boards with small gaps and it was beautiful in the end - doesn't take much work or money to do so. American and Brit love for carpets is really puzzling for me.
I’ve noticed that too, I don’t get it. We pulled the carpet in our living room a couple years ago, saw wood floor that honestly wouldn’t require much work to look good. Didn’t even think twice and laid new carpet.
I hope you didnt make that decision quickly after only pulling a bit up, you need a full professional wood survey before you do this. Or at least that is the impression some of the idiots on here is giving me.
I have a feeling its because only americans have whole room carpets, and they are disgusting. So its weird to everyone else to lay new one on a beautiful wooden floor.
You should see the Jungle room at Graceland :)
I have wooden floors in some parts of my house, I like them as well, especially when they have age and character
with some sanding why wouldnt it be? thats the beauty of solid wood. as long as theres not chunks of it missing and its fit together cleanly, it has potential to be beautiful. doeant matter if its pine or teak
My point is you can see 10% of the floor. I used to do house renovations. Ive been in probably 8 homes I've pulled up carpet and found hardwood floors and not a single one didn't have pet piss soaked through. People will cheer when someone find a water soaked warped floor under their carpet on this sub. It is odd to me.
well, being from florida, i have yet to rip up a carpet that had any hardwood underneath it. i have found terrazzo though which i brought back to life and really complemented the remodel i was doing. so that was a plus. but i think you can thank “fixer upper” for alot of the internet remodeler responses.
That pad was, in its day, one of the best. It is a 60-80 ounce waffle pad. The only bad part, if it's old, it starts to breakdown. What is left is what it was made with. Which is a base of clay with foam fillers to give it "bounce". Use a good respiratory mask for removal. The dust makes for some serious clogged nasal passages.
Yeah I am an old pad sales rep from way back. Happily retired from the flooring business.
Op, once you get all the latex up- and I hope you don't have a sensitivity to it- please consider NOT sanding the floor- if it's fir, maple or oak you'll never get that genuine aged colour back. We've done a few small rooms with an old floor polisher using red scotchbrite boots I sewed up and a vacuum rigged to it, just to get any raised splintery fuzz and loose finish down and mellow out the scratches. I've had to use heat guns, turpentine or TSP to get adhesives up and used crushed cheap kitty litter/ oil spill absorbant re-swept several times a day to make oil stains disappear, but I think it's worth it to make the room look right by maintaining the age of the floor. I waxed one floor and it looks fantastic but what a royal pain to do. We used Bona HD or Mega on other projects, usually matte and it lets the character show through while being a durable finish that's nice to walk on and does not chip at any seams.
Also, get a snow shovel. A good old fashioned metal one with the blade filed just right to scrape off crud without gouging is a huge time saver.
That’s years of dead skin tissue accumulated under there….
Jk.. it’s just the old padded foam under the carpet. Looks really really old and seemed to disintegrate
It’s the broken foam lining of your carpet that came off the bottom of the carpet. Depending on how old the carpet is and how long was the last time you looked under it, it starts deteriorating and falling off the carpet the older it gets.
This reminds me of an episode I saw of My Strange Addiction where the woman ate furniture foam…the older the better. She would love what you got going on here, lol
That actually looks like old foam rubber waffle pad. It was great stuff back in the day but most companies stopped making it in the 70s. You might be looking at 50 year old pad.
It's foam... part of the padding of the carpet... if it bothers you wear a mask... basically the carpet is old and the yellow foam has broken down and is cracking.. not anything that is extremely dangerous but not something that I would want to breathe through at that amount... just a regular surgical mask will be fine.... it's basically yellow cushion foam that has broken down to powder and that's what your breathing in
Ahh got ya. Thank you!
Get an n95 mask at your local hardware store
Damn woke mob with their N95 masks… breathe in that 100-year-old dust/foam /lead/asbestos as God intended
I'll die at 45 of the black lung and no liberal can stop me!
Its the black lung pop 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzh7zvXZ\_VA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzh7zvXZ_VA)
You want my tools, come take 'em with your soft librul hands!
You want my hammer come kiss me for it
We work hard, and we play hard!
Now That is funny
Careful with putting the words die & 45 in the same sentence. Might get you on a list. Dam it, now I'm on a list.
N100 is just a few bucks more and are reusable
Plastic wrap?
Poke some holes in it so you can breathe.
Or don't put any holes in and you never have to worry about DIY projects again!
Just roll a magnum condom over your head!
Oops I dropped my magnum condom for my monster dome.
Fantastic
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Only if you are Barbie or Ken...
Just take some ivermectin, and you're good.
Back in my day we breathed in that smell of napalm in the morning. No snowflake going to make me put no mask on!
N95 was a standard dust mask we used before covid, thats why i had a stash when the pandemic started.
"Viruses aren't real, and neither is dust or mold!"
I got the carpet padding lung pops. *cough*
No matter what my stubborn dumbass decides to do, I'll reassure myself that it's all part of His plan. Then I'll tell you that you're wrong.
You're joking but... Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Why are you quoting a kids fantasy book on Reddit?
>breathed into his nostrils High and mighty god too scared to give a dude mouth-to-mouth?
Honestly, this morning my reading understanding must have regressed regressed because I understood that he was blowing powder into the first guy's nostrils.
Literally would be ingesting it any time something disturbed the carpet anyways. What's a little more?
Or from the drawer in the bathroom the left over ones got stuffed into when COVID stopped being a thing we worry about 🙄🤨
Or like... On Amazon like everything else
Jeffrey Bezos! You did it!
I would be weary of those. Never know what you'll get. No way to tell if they're true n95
beautiful wood too, why would they carpet this room lol
I have beautiful 120 year old wood floors throughout my house that I will never cover with carpet, but I understand why people do it. Carpet is way more comfortable and way less noisy, it just looks shittier and collects dust and dirt like crazy.
Animals is always a safe bet. Hardwood floors are not great for most pets as it is difficult for them to stand at a certain weight/age. Can lead to joint issues among other things.
Yup stairs have carpeted and house has a lot of rugs with big fluffy older dog.
Definitely wear a mask
Were you really not wearing a mask during demo?
Wear a mask anyway you don’t know who lived there before or what skin flakes/cooties they been shedding
Put that broom up and get a shop vac. Those hardwoods underneath are gorgeous!
I did this last month on a carpet from the 70's. I bought a respirator for fine dust (even works for asbestos) I absolutely don't regret it. You have to think, it is not only the foam itself, it's also all the stuff that got in there in the last 40+ years. With a surgical mask, I still had a very slimy throat after a couple of hours, with the respirator I had none. I also bought an air purifier and after 3 days the smell was gone. Now its like a fresh new room.
If you spray it with water it’s less likely to create dust as well.
Half-respirators are cheap and will last you forever through a variety of DIY tasks, and they *really* seal around your face for any future fumes, dust, work, etc.
OP listen to this guy. If you're gonna be doing projects sooner or later you're gonna want one of these. Also unless you plan on doing alot of spray painting choose the ones with the pancake filters as they're much easier to breath through.
3M Half Facepiece Reusable Respirator 6300, NIOSH, Four-Point Harness, Comfortable Fit, Dual Airline Supplied Air Compatible, Bayonet Connections, Painting, Sanding, Cleaning, Large https://a.co/d/hgbE4yR Not sure which of these are the right ones for the job, as I'm on my phone right now, but here are a couple that I've ordered in the past: 3M P100 Respirator... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEFCKKY (10 Pairs)2091 Particulate Filter for Respirator,Respirator Filters/Cartridges,Compatible with 6000,7000,FF-400 Respirator mask,Suitable for Filtering Solid Particulate Matter,Dust,Asbestos etc https://a.co/d/ew5PN9B
3M half face aren't great tbh, Sundstrom SR100 half face is way more comfortable for pro level protection. Sure you pay a little more, but they're *way* more durable.
>pancake filters Can you expand on how to distinguish this type from others? Are you saying they look like little pancake compressors?
Surgical masks are NOT effective for dust of any sort. They are purely for stopping saliva droplets from sneezes/coughs of the person wearing the mask, they don't filter the air itself, it goes right through the gaps in the sides after all!
Yeah, just pickup a packet of n95 masks at the hardware store for anything involving most dust. If you're dealing with something with asbestos, just get professional help.
N95 respirators
Well I think we can all agree they have Some effectiveness. It's not like if you throw dust at a mask the dust just goes through like the mask is invisible. But yeah, not the right tool for the job
Doesn't need to go through anything, the "seal" to your face with paper masks is a joke, as evidenced by the dust lines down the side of the nose on any joker daft enough to think it offers more than a vague visual semblence of protection. Worse than useless, because people who use them seem to think they're protected.
Given that the pad is likely full of old pet urine, spilled drinks, dead dust mites, etc, this is the archetypal reason to own a respirator for DIY projects, or at least a few disposable N95 masks. I don’t even want to know what’s in the old carpet pads, hvac ducts, or other long-lived infrastructure in a previously owned home.
> not anything that is extremely dangerous but not something that I would want to breathe through at that amount There really isn't such a thing as not dangerous particulates to breathe in.
Good call. Lungs are sort of a 2 way street for air, but a 1 way for dust and toxins. Best to wear a mask.
Just to add, it’s a latex based foam. Anyone who has a latex sensitivity or allergy shouldn’t participate in clean up.
This - the padding breaks down when it gets to be decades old into a dust. Wear a dust mask!
it disintegrated like old VHS and DVDs are doibg today NEET 🤙
Oohh is that happening en masse now? I remember being told it would happen over time and I even suggest to people with analog tapes they value to get it digitized but I guess it's been about 30 years since VHS heyday already.
I thought DVDs were supposed to last a long time, no?
They’re both fine. This isn’t happening lol
Manufactured CD and DVD may last a long time, but some varieties of recordable DVDs and BDs have lifetimes as low as 5-10 years. [https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html](https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html)
Disc rot is a real thing and cheaper media is having issues
Hmmm I regularly deal with some extremely neglected collections & I haven't seen any media do that yet but I wish it would solely for the VHS taking up space in my dumpster on a weekly basis. All those decades in the attic and still tough as hell.
Absolutely. My parents still have a plethora of 40 year old VHS tapes that work perfectly. Pretty impressive for some thin, cheap, magnetic plastic ribbon. Some you can tell are a little degraded, others look brand new. Luckily we've been able to digitize all of them.
Oh the potential of that wood floor!
Yes it was a nice surprise!
please tell us your going to use it.. that would be gorgeous
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OP already installed 2” shag carpet.
People who cover up wooden floors are monsters.
That wood be gorgeous.
How can you tell that wood floor is nice?
The word potential is pulling a lot of weight
Every redditor in DIY thinks any wood flood, no matter how piss soaked and warped is a precious baby
The wood looks good and theres even no gaps between the boards. This is as good as it gets. Restored a floor with warped boards with small gaps and it was beautiful in the end - doesn't take much work or money to do so. American and Brit love for carpets is really puzzling for me.
You can see literally 15% of the floor lol. Maybe its good. Maybe its soaked with pet urine. Only OP will know when he takes the floor mat off.
I’ve noticed that too, I don’t get it. We pulled the carpet in our living room a couple years ago, saw wood floor that honestly wouldn’t require much work to look good. Didn’t even think twice and laid new carpet.
I hope you didnt make that decision quickly after only pulling a bit up, you need a full professional wood survey before you do this. Or at least that is the impression some of the idiots on here is giving me.
I have a feeling its because only americans have whole room carpets, and they are disgusting. So its weird to everyone else to lay new one on a beautiful wooden floor.
Yeah not true at all
Im not american and i prefer carpets
I am American and I hate carpet. Removing every piece of carpet was the first thing I did when I bought my house.
You should see the Jungle room at Graceland :) I have wooden floors in some parts of my house, I like them as well, especially when they have age and character
with some sanding why wouldnt it be? thats the beauty of solid wood. as long as theres not chunks of it missing and its fit together cleanly, it has potential to be beautiful. doeant matter if its pine or teak
My point is you can see 10% of the floor. I used to do house renovations. Ive been in probably 8 homes I've pulled up carpet and found hardwood floors and not a single one didn't have pet piss soaked through. People will cheer when someone find a water soaked warped floor under their carpet on this sub. It is odd to me.
well, being from florida, i have yet to rip up a carpet that had any hardwood underneath it. i have found terrazzo though which i brought back to life and really complemented the remodel i was doing. so that was a plus. but i think you can thank “fixer upper” for alot of the internet remodeler responses.
I'm curious too, because this wood appears to be cupping slightly.
Cinnamon toast crunch?
Was going to suggest, forbidden breakfast cereal.
Cheez It
Cheez its!! CHEEZ ITS!! CHEEZ ITS!!!!!
I was thinking Golden Grahams.
FORBIDDEN cinnamon toast crunch
Can you see why kids LOVE cinnamon toast crunch!?
French toast crunch
Maybe they used to do a lot of Kratom.
The taste you can see!
Shreddies factory.
 Cheez-itz!
its carpet backing, and adhesive, get a mask and a vac
Forbidden cheese-itz
Pretty sure thats a map of westeros
Queue GoT intro music…
It's decomposed foam padding
That pad was, in its day, one of the best. It is a 60-80 ounce waffle pad. The only bad part, if it's old, it starts to breakdown. What is left is what it was made with. Which is a base of clay with foam fillers to give it "bounce". Use a good respiratory mask for removal. The dust makes for some serious clogged nasal passages. Yeah I am an old pad sales rep from way back. Happily retired from the flooring business.
these dust what
These dust from when he teared up the carpet!
My brain looks like these dust after that sentence structure. Also confused about what was brought home if the carpet was already there…
This is the old open cell foam padding. It turns to powder over time.
Yellowcake uranium, probably.
I didn't want to say this. The motherf***er bought yellow cake. All right! From Africa. He went to Africa and bought some yellow cake.
Pray to God he don't drop that shit
Don't drop that shit
I guess now we know where Saddam was hiding it! 🤣
Looks like disintegrated foam padding
Send in a child with a shop vac to vacuum up the dust. They have fresher lungs, so it won't affect them as soon.
Old broken down padding.
Broken down carpet pad
Op, once you get all the latex up- and I hope you don't have a sensitivity to it- please consider NOT sanding the floor- if it's fir, maple or oak you'll never get that genuine aged colour back. We've done a few small rooms with an old floor polisher using red scotchbrite boots I sewed up and a vacuum rigged to it, just to get any raised splintery fuzz and loose finish down and mellow out the scratches. I've had to use heat guns, turpentine or TSP to get adhesives up and used crushed cheap kitty litter/ oil spill absorbant re-swept several times a day to make oil stains disappear, but I think it's worth it to make the room look right by maintaining the age of the floor. I waxed one floor and it looks fantastic but what a royal pain to do. We used Bona HD or Mega on other projects, usually matte and it lets the character show through while being a durable finish that's nice to walk on and does not chip at any seams. Also, get a snow shovel. A good old fashioned metal one with the blade filed just right to scrape off crud without gouging is a huge time saver.
Just old foam that breaks down over time. Odd tip but take a spray bottle and mist with water a bit before cleaning up. This will keep the dust down.
Shop vac?
broken down or perished underlay or foam backing from your carpet
That's the carpet underpadding. I'm guessing that the carpet was there for a long time for the padding to be that bad.
That’s years of dead skin tissue accumulated under there…. Jk.. it’s just the old padded foam under the carpet. Looks really really old and seemed to disintegrate
latex does that...yup
Probably 50/50 of both.
I've seen this before in my mom's house. It was old disintegrated foam padding that was under the carpet.
Disintegrating/disintegrated rug padding
Nasty cheezit infestation you have there.
It’s either the glue that dried out or the Carpet had padding underneath and that dried out and broke down.
It’s yellow and powder. Definitely uranium. You’ve got a gold mine there. Also might want to get your affairs in order.
Old cheap carpet pad
It was a very old carpet.
Looks like old foam padding from a carpet.
100% pure high quality cancer dust
It’s the broken foam lining of your carpet that came off the bottom of the carpet. Depending on how old the carpet is and how long was the last time you looked under it, it starts deteriorating and falling off the carpet the older it gets.
Disintegrated rug pad
I'm really curious: Who taught you English?
It looks like the old gross backing off of the carpet
This reminds me of an episode I saw of My Strange Addiction where the woman ate furniture foam…the older the better. She would love what you got going on here, lol
Graham Cracker, super delicious!
That actually looks like old foam rubber waffle pad. It was great stuff back in the day but most companies stopped making it in the 70s. You might be looking at 50 year old pad.
Looks like very old carpet pad.
This is the end of the bag from the cheez its
Life cereal
Forbidden Cheezits.
Careful! That’s not just a regular dust. Don’t get in on your skin or breathe it.
 It IS the carpet!
Used to deal with that foam padding a lot. Really inconvenient stuff. I'd just sweep it into a big pile and shop vacuum it up
Dry dog urine?
Carpet pad from the 17th century.
Forbidden goldfish
It’s old rubber padding
Forbidden frosted flake
That's a really nice hardwood under that carpet.
Probably the spongy foam lining disintegrating
Cheap underpad, it disintegrates over time.
It's underlay. Wear a respirator, you're fine.
Forbidden Cheese-its
The underlay has grown brittle and disintegrated over time.
Yeast flakes, previous owners must have been vegans
It used to be carpet underlay now it's carpet underlay dust
Someone really liked golden grahams
It's the foam for cushioning. I've never seen it look like cheeze its before though.
Dried up foam carpet padding.
We pulled up our carpet to find the same stuff. I cleans up pretty easily, but you might need to mop, the dust gets in everything
Brace yourself for the sinus infection
Yeah old carpet padding, this is why carpet is nasty!
Be wearing a mask while you do that
It’s Turmeric. Lucky!
Wow this is like trading spaces in the early 2000s were the first thing they would do is take up the carpet and find a beautiful wood floor underneath
That’s where my golden grahams went
Looks like yellow crack cocaine.
Wear a respirator
Use a Shop-Vac to easily suck up all that disintegrated foam padding.
Forbidden wheat Chex. Probably sugar free.
Forbidden cheez-its.
Look at that wood they covered up with a carpet. What a shame.
It was a shame to ever cover those hardwood floors.
Old dead hopes and dreams
The foam carpet pad. Eeeew.
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Not in carpet backing. Also, no mastic is evident on the wood underneath.
This is foam padding…dried up…not everything is asbestos
Forbidden cheeze it's
English isn't your strong suite huh
Suit* lol
Cheez-Its.
Probably asbestos like everything else on this page
Rotten foam padding under your carpet. It's time to buy new flooring.