Step 4 repair the many.
Taking carpet off stairs and painting them.
3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag.
Pull up all the carpet pad.
Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls.
Step 1 remove the nasty carpet from the stairs.
Cut the carpet.
Step 2 remove nails and millions of staples patch any holes prime the treads and risers.
Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up.
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.
Removing carpet from stairs and painting them.
This mama got bored last weekend and decided it was time to tackle a project that has been on my wish list to do list for a long long time.
I give up on the little bit of paint that i couldn t get off on the sides.
Step 3 repair all of the holes in the walls the builders hid with the carpet.
In fact it just got worse as i went down the stairs ripping that carpet and padding off.
You may need to cut portions of the.
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.
1 pry up the right corner.
If the 2 3 coats of stain doesn t hide it i will either put up a small piece of molding or just paint the treads black.
Steps for removing carpeting from stairs with gloved hands and using a screwdriver 5 in 1 tool or similar implement pry up a corner until you can gain a grip.
Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house.
Pull the carpeting off the stairs starting at the top of the stairwell.
Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.
My method was this.
Pull off tack strips or pull out nails and staples with the prybar and pliers.
I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar.
Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples.
I also have this to contend with.
Scrape any rough.
How to replace stair carpet with paint 1.
4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag.
Resist the temptation to pound nails.
Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them.
Painting them black is my plan c in this little stair project of mine.