Tear Up Carpet On Stairs

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.

Tear up carpet on stairs.

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. 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. Start at the top of the stairs and remove the carpet with the vise grips and utility knife.

One year ago i ripped up all of the beige carpet on my stairs. I started with the bottom step by using pliers to pull carpet away from stairs. Hopefully that will happen next summer. Use the vise grips to pull the carpet free from the riser.

Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. 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. So here is the project replace carpet with stair runner tutorial. Once you get the carpet up this is what you will see.

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. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top. Cut the carpet with a utility knife under the nose of the landing. I removed all of the padding tack strips nails and staples.

I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day. Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser. This works fine for now. I repaired the treads removed.

Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it. The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are. Find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.