Finish removing fasteners and patching holes.
Take carpet off stairs.
Step 4 tack strips and padding.
2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.
Without damaging the wood you must reach under the carpet.
Sand the wood using multiple grit sandpaper.
After i removed the padding i used a crowbar hammer and a flat edged screwdriver to remove the tack strip and staples.
My method was this.
The hardest part about removing carpet from stairs is starting.
Remove the carpet from the stairs.
Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls.
Follow these steps to remove old carpeting from 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.
Step 3 cut where you can.
Using locking pliers pry a small corner of carpet away from a riser to determine the material underneath and decide on.
How to remove carpet from wood stairs.
Duct tape step 1.
Ok maybe not quite that many but it sure felt like it.
Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples.
If there is carpet on the floor above the top stair cut the carpet under the nose of the top stair using a utility.
Step 2 wonder bar.
4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag.
3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag.
Using a varnish stripper remove the top coat from the stair treads.
I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar.
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.
Step 5 tacks.
Begin your carpet removal project step 2.
Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the.
Cut the carpet.
This was a simple system that worked great and will also be how i handle it when dealing with the basement stairs too.
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.
Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up.
Step 1 get started.
Every 3 stairs i used a box cutter to cut the carpet from side to side.
Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.
Remove padding and tack strips step 3.
Fill in any holes in the wood with wood filler.