Tear Up Carpet On Stairs

If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it.

Tear up carpet on stairs.

I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar to pry the carpet away from the tack strip. Pull up all the carpet pad. One year ago i ripped up all of the beige carpet on my stairs. I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway.

Start at the top of the stairs and remove the carpet with the vise grips and utility knife. I removed all of the padding tack strips nails and staples. So here is the project replace carpet with stair runner tutorial. Find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.

Once you get the carpet up this is what you will see. Grip the carpet with both hands for easier removal and to maintain balance and safety. Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. If not cut the carpet near the top of the top riser grab the cut end and pull the carpet off the stairs by hand.

I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place. Cut the carpet with a utility knife under the nose of the landing.

I ended up cutting it a little more and folding the carpet under and stapling it down at the edge of the wood that is at the top of the staircase. Hopefully that will happen next summer. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top. The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are.

This works fine for now. I started with the bottom step by using pliers to pull carpet away from stairs. Use the vise grips to pull the carpet free from the riser. Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the staples holding it in place from underneath green arrow below.