1 pry up the right corner.
Take carpet off stairs.
Remove the carpet from the stairs.
Without damaging the wood you must reach under the carpet.
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.
Every 3 stairs i used a box cutter to cut the carpet from side to side.
2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.
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.
Using a varnish stripper remove the top coat from the stair treads.
Begin your carpet removal project step 2.
Remove padding and tack strips step 3.
Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up.
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.
Sand the wood using multiple grit sandpaper.
Step 4 tack strips and padding.
Fill in any holes in the wood with wood filler.
Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls.
How to remove carpet from wood stairs.
Step 1 get started.
Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair.
Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.
Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the.
The hardest part about removing carpet from stairs is starting.
Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples.
Step 2 wonder bar.
This was a simple system that worked great and will also be how i handle it when dealing with the basement stairs too.
If there is carpet on the floor above the top stair cut the carpet under the nose of the top stair using a utility.
Cut the carpet.
Step 3 cut where you can.
Duct tape step 1.
After i removed the padding i used a crowbar hammer and a flat edged screwdriver to remove the tack strip and staples.
Finish removing fasteners and patching holes.
Follow these steps to remove old carpeting from stairs.
Step 5 tacks.
4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag.
Using locking pliers pry a small corner of carpet away from a riser to determine the material underneath and decide on.
3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag.
