Every 3 stairs i used a box cutter to cut the carpet from side to side.
Take carpet off stairs.
Remove padding and tack strips step 3.
Ok maybe not quite that many but it sure felt like it.
4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag.
Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.
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.
Sand the wood using multiple grit sandpaper.
Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair.
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.
Without damaging the wood you must reach under the carpet.
Step 3 cut where you can.
The hardest part about removing carpet from stairs is starting.
Step 2 wonder bar.
Using a varnish stripper remove the top coat from the stair treads.
Begin your carpet removal project step 2.
Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples.
Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the.
If there is carpet on the floor above the top stair cut the carpet under the nose of the top stair using a utility.
Fill in any holes in the wood with wood filler.
3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag.
I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar.
Remove the carpet from the stairs.
How to remove carpet from wood stairs.
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.
Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up.
Step 4 tack strips and padding.
After i removed the padding i used a crowbar hammer and a flat edged screwdriver to remove the tack strip and staples.
Follow these steps to remove old carpeting from stairs.
Finish removing fasteners and patching holes.
My method was this.
This was a simple system that worked great and will also be how i handle it when dealing with the basement stairs too.
2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.
Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls.
Using locking pliers pry a small corner of carpet away from a riser to determine the material underneath and decide on.
Duct tape step 1.
1 pry up the right corner.
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.