Take Carpet Off Stairs

Finish removing fasteners and patching holes.

Take carpet off stairs.

Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair. Sand the wood using multiple grit sandpaper. Steps for removing carpeting from stairs with gloved hands and using a screwdriver 5 in 1 tool or similar implement pry up a corner until you can gain a grip. Remove the carpet from the stairs.

I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar. Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs. We d like to take the carpet off ours because it s so annoying to vacuum but we live in a row house with the stairs along a shared wall. Follow these steps to remove old carpeting from stairs.

Begin your carpet removal project step 2. 3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag. Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls. Step 3 cut where you can.

Step 2 wonder bar. 2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles. To take up all the carpet tack strips just place a flat head screw driver under the strip tap in with the hammer and gently pry it up. If there is carpet on the floor above the top stair cut the carpet under the nose of the top stair using a utility.

Using locking pliers pry a small corner of carpet away from a riser to determine the material underneath and decide on. Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. After i removed the padding i used a crowbar hammer and a flat edged screwdriver to remove the tack strip and staples. Remove padding and tack strips step 3.

My method was this. Step 1 get started. Ok maybe not quite that many but it sure felt like it. Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the.

Every 3 stairs i used a box cutter to cut the carpet from side to side. 4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag. This was a simple system that worked great and will also be how i handle it when dealing with the basement stairs too. How to remove carpet from wood stairs.

Using a varnish stripper remove the top coat from the stair treads. Duct tape step 1. The hardest part about removing carpet from stairs is starting. We can hear our neighbors going up and down stairs and they have carpet so we don t want to increase the noise we make that they can hear.

Step 4 tack strips and padding. Step 5 tacks. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. 1 pry up the right corner.