Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place.
Tearing up carpet on stairs.
Hopefully that will happen next summer.
Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser.
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.
I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day.
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.
2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.
My method was this.
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.
Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair.
4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag.
If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it.
3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag.
This works fine for now.