Taking Carpet Off Stairs And Painting Them

Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples.

Taking carpet off stairs and painting them. How to replace stair carpet with paint 1. Removing carpet from stairs and painting them. Cut the carpet. Ripping off the carpet and painting the stairs was the best decision i made.

Resist the temptation to pound nails. Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair. If the 2 3 coats of stain doesn t hide it i will either put up a small piece of molding or just paint the treads black. You may need to cut portions of the.

Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs. 4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag. Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them. 1 pry up the right corner.

I also have this to contend with. Scrape any rough. Painting them black is my plan c in this little stair project of mine. Steps for removing carpeting from stairs with gloved hands and using a screwdriver 5 in 1 tool or similar implement pry up a corner until you can gain a grip.

My method was this. Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the. Step 2 remove nails and millions of staples patch any holes prime the treads and risers. 3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag.

Step 4 repair the many. 2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles. Pull off tack strips or pull out nails and staples with the prybar and pliers. 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 remove the nasty carpet from the stairs. To take up all the carpet tack strips just place a flat head screw driver under the strip tap in with the hammer and gently pry it up. In fact it just got worse as i went down the stairs ripping that carpet and padding off. And like i mentioned if i had any delusions of something nice lurking beneath this mess of carpet that was quickly put to rest after the first couple of stairs.

Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house. I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. Pull up all the carpet pad.

Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls.