But sometimes, if you’re lucky, there are beautiful hardwood floors under the old carpet that are just crying ... chunks or loose bits of the old foam padding with a plastic paint scraper.

and some sort of gray commercial office space carpet, then a layer of disgusting foam padding and this was hidden under it all. It's like finding buried treasure!!," the homeowner wrote in the post.

Generally, you will have three basic material choices for residential carpet padding: foam, sponge rubber and ... Fiber padding, which you often see under older carpeting, looks like animal ...