Tear Up Carpet On Stairs

I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway.

Tear up carpet on stairs.

Once you get the carpet up this is what you will see. Hopefully that will happen next summer. Use the vise grips to pull the carpet free from the riser. This works fine for now.

Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place. I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day. Find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.

To remove carpet from stairs start at the top. 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. So here is the project replace carpet with stair runner tutorial. I removed all of the padding tack strips nails and staples.

If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it. Grip the carpet with both hands for easier removal and to maintain balance and safety. Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser. 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 started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar to pry the carpet away from the tack strip. Pull up all the carpet pad. The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are. Start at the top of the stairs and remove the carpet with the vise grips and utility knife.

Cut the carpet with a utility knife under the nose of the landing. I started with the bottom step by using pliers to pull carpet away from stairs. One year ago i ripped up all of the beige carpet on my stairs. I repaired the treads removed.