Taking Carpet Off Stairs And Painting Them

Pull off tack strips or pull out nails and staples with the prybar and pliers.

Taking carpet off stairs and painting them.

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. Pull up all the carpet pad. Pull the carpeting off the stairs starting at the top of the stairwell. And like i mentioned if i had any delusions of something nice lurking beneath this mess of carpet that was quickly put to rest after the first couple of stairs.

Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls. My method was this. 4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag. I give up on the little bit of paint that i couldn t get off on the sides.

Step 2 remove nails and millions of staples patch any holes prime the treads and risers. In fact it just got worse as i went down the stairs ripping that carpet and padding off. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. I also have this to contend with.

Painting them black is my plan c in this little stair project of mine. Step 4 repair the many. Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint 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.

3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag. Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair. Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. Removing carpet from stairs and painting them.

Step 3 repair all of the holes in the walls the builders hid with the carpet. Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house. Step 1 remove the nasty carpet from the stairs. Cut the carpet.

2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles. Ripping off the carpet and painting the stairs was the best decision i made. Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the. How to replace stair carpet with paint 1.

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. You may need to cut portions of the. 1 pry up the right corner. I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar.

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.