A few more tips on carpet removal from hardwood

As an addendum to my previous post on carpet removal from hardwood, I'm posting a few tips here on how to make the job a tad easier:
1. Expect to find at least one seam in the carpet padding, probably in the middle of the room, which will out of necessity give you staples to remove down the middle of the room on the padding's seam line. I find that removing these staples FIRST in any given area of the room where you are working makes the job a bit less treacherous, as you won't step on those staples by mistake if you remove them first.
2. Save the hardest or heaviest piece of furniture for last. Work around that piece, right up to the edges of it. After you have all the other sections of the floor done, move that heaviest piece of furniture out into the floor and finish the area behind it. It will be easier to move it back into position with the carpet gone.
3. As you remove staples, first pull away as many of the padding fibers from it as you can, thus exposing the staple's position in the floor. This way you can tell what direction you need to use to pry the staple up successfully.
4. Once you start prying a staple up, try to ease the fork on the end of the pry bar under the staple straight on, so that you might get lucky and ease the entire staple out intact. This works up to about 50% of the time if the carpet layer did a decent job of putting the staple into the wood originally, and can save time in staple removal.
5. If there is a finished carpet edge, like in the doorway of a closet, you might find that the carpet layers used an especially small size of staple to edge the carpet in that doorway. These are hateful small weak staples that break when you blow on them hard! My removal technique for these weakling staples is to pull all of the carpet fibers away from them, and then use the corner of the pry bar to ease the staple up just enough to hook the end of the curved needle-nose pliers under the staple. Then, VERY GENTLY AND SLOWLY, use the curve in the needle-nose pliers as a fulcrum to ease the staple up out of the wood. If you are lucky, the staple will come out intact. If you are not lucky, it will break in two. If it breaks in two, grasp each leg of the staple individually and pull upward firmly with all your might to extract it. It might take a few attempts to get this done. If there is a short leg that you simply cannot remove, either bend it back and forth to break it off and hammer the stub into the wood, or just hammer the stub in without breaking it off. Hopefully you won't have very many staples that break during extraction.
6. When you first expose an area of floor, just after you pull up the padding, sweeping the loose carpet fibers, grit, and other crap out of that area before you start with staple removal makes the floor nicer to sit on and helps you see the staples more easily. Then sweep up again after you have removed the staples and tack strips, because there will be more grit behind the tack strips.