Good luck! I think that's going to be a lot of work.especially if you need to clear workspace for an electrician (I can't remember if I ever knew where your plug socket is)

Clean ups around here make a start, actually look like we are getting somewhere... then fizzle out. Ah well, things are better here than they were, (although both the dishwasher and the washing machines have just died, so we shall see) and decorating and the like has been accomplished.

If you realise the carpet has to go, you can indeed cut it up piecemeal and wiggle it from under things like table legs (cut close to shelving and the like and no one will know what is hiding underneath). I don't know what your flooring is like, but you can do like we do and use plenty of mats