Ripping Up Carpet On Stairs

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.

Ripping up carpet on stairs. The builder grade carpet in my 11 year old home is beyond showing it s wear. Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place. If that s the case with your carpeted stairs you may be thinking of tearing up the carpet to give it an update or replace it with a new look entirely. Suddenly i was a lot more motivated to rip up the carpet in our stairway.

Pulling carpet up from stairs. I have hardwood in my foyer which is pretty big and powder room. This has been one of the longest weeks of my life and the final reveal is no where close to being finished. I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway.

It was also the easy part. I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and create a brighter more modern entry. I m working on replacing the carpet downstairs in dr lr fr with hardwood but is still an issue.

So back in the early days of our coronavirus quarantine i decided it was as good a time as any to pull up all the gross old carpet in the entryway and refinish the hardwood stairs underneath. Hopefully that will happen next summer. 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. Ripping up the carpet was hard and messy work.

This works fine for now. Carpeted stairs consist of a carpet pad nosing tack strips tread riser and carpet. If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top.

Take these five things into consideration. Some stairs are covered. If anyone tries to tell you that this is an easy diy project they are lying. Wear proper safety gear such as safety goggles or glasses gloves and a face mask to avoid cuts flying debris and dust while removing the carpet.

Our spindles are attached directly to our treads so that means the carpet was wrapped around these spindles. Now a couple of pointers. It s important to understand the different parts that make up a carpet stair before getting to work. After much internal debate i couldn t take it anymore and started ripping up the carpet on our stairs.

I have two sets of stairs both carpeted and large landing leading to the second level.