Without damaging the wood you must reach under the carpet and pry it free.
Removing carpet from hardwood stairs.
Our were on the treads and the risers.
Tear out the padding under the carpet.
8 for a 2 pack of crow bars.
Use a hammer to pull out stray tack strip nails or hammer in any nails that aren t flush.
The rest of the steps had a 7 5 rise.
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.
Removed stare tacks and staples using a crowbar hammer and flat head screwdriver pliers would work too.
Use a crow bar to remove the tack strips.
Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house.
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.
Removing the carpet tacks and staples.
Waterfall is considered to be the faster method of installing carpet on stairs and uses only one strip of carpeting.
Position the nose of the pliers under the bottom edge of the carpeting and clamp the pliers shut on the bottom edge.
If you know what a stair runner is it s much like this a continuous strip of carpet.
As a result after removing the carpet the bottom step had a 7 rise and the top step had a 8 5 rise.
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.
Step 1 get started the hardest part about removing carpet from stairs is starting.
Pull up until the bottom stair s carpeting is pulled up.
Here was my situation.
Remove the staples after that.
Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them.
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.
Step 2 put on heavy utility gloves and grasp the loose bottom of the carpeting.
The stairs are the heart of our home.
Why remove the carpet from stairs.
Now that that s over with more detail.