Ripping Out Carpet On Stairs

If not cut the carpet near the top of the top stair riser.

Ripping out carpet on stairs. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top. Now a couple of pointers. If you are pulling up carpet from stairs. Start ripping up the carpet.

Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out. Begin at the top of the stairs. Grab the cut end of carpet and pull it from the stairs using gloved hands. Check out our flooring ideas playlist for more tips.

Pry up the metal nosing and remove it if present. Posted on july 2 2014 by k8freeman. Not my favorite look. 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.

This has been one of the longest weeks of my life and the final reveal is no where close to being finished. Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place. Ripping out carpet and painting stairs. After much internal debate i couldn t take it anymore and started ripping up the carpet on our stairs.

If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it. Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house. Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint 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.

For safety reasons aka our child we could not remove the spindles at this time so it was a lot of extra work on dan s part to pull the carpet up. Let me remind you what the stairs looked like before matted ugly carpet that was wrapped around those ends of the stairs on the left like a furry little animal. I should say we put hardwood in the rooms on the first floor that did not have hardwood i e. Our spindles are attached directly to our treads so that means the carpet was wrapped around these spindles.

The family room living room and dining room. If anyone tries to tell you that this is an easy diy project they are lying. I think the previous owners who. Removing old carpet from stairs is an easy diy project you can take on yourself.