Taking Carpet Off Stairs And Painting Them

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.

Taking carpet off stairs and painting them.

Step 4 repair the many. Step 3 repair all of the holes in the walls the builders hid with the carpet. 2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles. My method was this.

Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them. Removing carpet from stairs and painting them. Cut the carpet. Pull up all the carpet pad.

Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair. Resist the temptation to pound nails. Step 1 remove the nasty carpet from the stairs. 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.

Pull the carpeting off the stairs starting at the top of the stairwell. How to replace stair carpet with paint 1. 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. Ripping off the carpet and painting the stairs was the best decision i made.

Step 2 remove nails and millions of staples patch any holes prime the treads and risers. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. 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. 4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag.

3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag. 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. In fact it just got worse as i went down the stairs ripping that carpet and padding off. Pull off tack strips or pull out nails and staples with the prybar and pliers.

You may need to cut portions of the. Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the. Painting them black is my plan c in this little stair project of mine. Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.

I also have this to contend with. Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. 1 pry up the right corner. I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar.

Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house.