Tear Up Carpet On Stairs

I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day.

Tear up carpet on stairs.

Hopefully that will happen next summer. I repaired the treads removed. I started with the bottom step by using pliers to pull carpet away from stairs. Start at the top of the stairs and remove the carpet with the vise grips and utility knife.

I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway. 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. I ended up cutting it a little more and folding the carpet under and stapling it down at the edge of the wood that is at the top of the staircase. I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar to pry the carpet away from the tack strip.

Cut the carpet with a utility knife under the nose of the landing. One year ago i ripped up all of the beige carpet on my stairs. 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. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top.

Grip the carpet with both hands for easier removal and to maintain balance and safety. Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the staples holding it in place from underneath green arrow below. This works fine for now. Pull up all the carpet pad.

Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser. So here is the project replace carpet with stair runner tutorial. Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are.

Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place. If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it. Find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.