Take Carpet Off Stairs

My method was this.

Take carpet off stairs.

3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. Remove the carpet from the stairs. Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls.

Step 2 wonder bar. Remove padding and tack strips step 3. Ok maybe not quite that many but it sure felt like it. 2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.

Using locking pliers pry a small corner of carpet away from a riser to determine the material underneath and decide on. 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. Follow these steps to remove old carpeting from stairs. I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar.

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. Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the. Finish removing fasteners and patching holes. Without damaging the wood you must reach under the carpet.

Step 3 cut where you can. 4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag. 1 pry up the right corner. This was a simple system that worked great and will also be how i handle it when dealing with the basement stairs too.

Every 3 stairs i used a box cutter to cut the carpet from side to side. Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. How to remove carpet from wood stairs. Duct tape step 1.

Using a varnish stripper remove the top coat from the stair treads. Cut the carpet. 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. Step 1 get started.

Sand the wood using multiple grit sandpaper. After i removed the padding i used a crowbar hammer and a flat edged screwdriver to remove the tack strip and staples. Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair. Step 5 tacks.

The hardest part about removing carpet from stairs is starting. Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs. If there is carpet on the floor above the top stair cut the carpet under the nose of the top stair using a utility. Begin your carpet removal project step 2.