I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway.
Tearing up carpet on stairs.
With a flat head screw driver up against the nail strip strike the end of the screw driver with a hammer until you can get under the nail strip and pull it up you may want to use gloves during this step.
2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.
The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are.
To remove carpet from stairs start at the top.
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.
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.
My method was this.
Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place.
This works fine for now.
Hopefully that will happen next summer.
I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day.
Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser.
If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it.