Removing Carpet From Hardwood Stairs
Use a crow bar to remove the tack strips.
Removing carpet from hardwood stairs. Throw them away as you remove them to avoid accidentally stepping on them. This mama got bored last weekend and decided it was time to tackle a project that has been on my wish list to do list for a long long time. The stairs are the heart of our home. If both the treads and the risers are carpeted you may be able to slide the blade of a utility knife along an edge without scratching the wood.
Why remove the carpet from stairs. Waterfall is considered to be the faster method of installing carpet on stairs and uses only one strip of carpeting. The rest of the steps had a 7 5 rise. Tear out the padding under the carpet.
Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house. Pull up until the bottom stair s carpeting is pulled up. Our were on the treads and the risers. Removing the carpet tacks and staples.
Use a hammer to pull out stray tack strip nails or hammer in any nails that aren t flush. Without damaging the wood you must reach under the carpet and pry it free. If you know what a stair runner is it s much like this a continuous strip of carpet. Here was my situation.
The previous owner had installed tile near the doorway entry bottom of the stairs and 3 4 thick hardwood in the passageway at the top of the stairs. 8 for a 2 pack of crow bars. Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them. Remove the staples after that.
Removed stare tacks and staples using a crowbar hammer and flat head screwdriver pliers would work too. Pulled up carpet and padding using gloves i used a pair of gardening gloves cutting the carpet with a box cutter every 3rd step to make removal manageable. Step 2 put on heavy utility gloves and grasp the loose bottom of the carpeting. I ve had my eye on removing the carpet from the stairs for some time.
After cutting a strip of carpet the width of the stairs you start at the bottom and work upward. Position the nose of the pliers under the bottom edge of the carpeting and clamp the pliers shut on the bottom edge. Step 1 get started the hardest part about removing carpet from stairs is starting.