Tearing Up Carpet On Stairs

2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.

Tearing up carpet on stairs.

4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag. Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser. This works fine for now. 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.

Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place. I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway. 3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag. My method was this.

To remove carpet from stairs start at the top. 1 pry up the right corner. 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. The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are.

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. Hopefully that will happen next summer.