Tear Up Carpet On Stairs

Once you get the carpet up this is what you will see.

Tear up carpet on stairs.

The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are. Grip the carpet with both hands for easier removal and to maintain balance and safety. So here is the project replace carpet with stair runner tutorial. One year ago i ripped up all of the beige carpet on my stairs.

I repaired the treads removed. Pull up all the carpet pad. Find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs. I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day.

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. Use the vise grips to pull the carpet free from the riser. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar to pry the carpet away from the tack strip.

Start at the top of the stairs and remove the carpet with the vise grips and utility knife. Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top. Cut the carpet with a utility knife under the nose of the landing.

I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway. This works fine for now. 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. I removed all of the padding tack strips nails and staples.

Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser. 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. 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.