I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day.
Tearing up carpet on stairs.
Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser.
If not cut the carpet near the top of the top riser grab the cut end and pull the carpet off the stairs by hand.
1 pry up the right corner.
To remove carpet from stairs start at the top.
4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag.
3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag.
With a flat head screw driver up against the nail strip strike the end of the screw driver with a hammer until you can get under the nail strip and pull it up you may want to use gloves during this step.
Hopefully that will happen next summer.
If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it.
This works fine for now.
Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place.
My method was this.
2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.
Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair.