I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar.
Take carpet off stairs.
Step 1 get started.
Step 4 tack strips and padding.
Ok maybe not quite that many but it sure felt like it.
Duct tape step 1.
Remove the carpet from the stairs.
Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.
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.
This was a simple system that worked great and will also be how i handle it when dealing with the basement stairs too.
Using locking pliers pry a small corner of carpet away from a riser to determine the material underneath and decide on.
After i removed the padding i used a crowbar hammer and a flat edged screwdriver to remove the tack strip and staples.
Using a varnish stripper remove the top coat from the stair treads.
If there is carpet on the floor above the top stair cut the carpet under the nose of the top stair using a utility.
Cut the carpet.
Remove padding and tack strips step 3.
Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples.
How to remove carpet from wood stairs.
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.
2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.
Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls.
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.
Finish removing fasteners and patching holes.
Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the.
Step 2 wonder bar.
4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag.
3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag.
1 pry up the right corner.
Every 3 stairs i used a box cutter to cut the carpet from side to side.
Sand the wood using multiple grit sandpaper.
Begin your carpet removal project step 2.
Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up.
Step 5 tacks.
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.
Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair.
My method was this.
Fill in any holes in the wood with wood filler.
Step 3 cut where you can.
