Tearing Up Carpet On Stairs
1 pry up the right corner.
Tearing up carpet on stairs. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top. 3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag. If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it. Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair.
I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway. 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. The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are. Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser.
I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day. My method was this. Hopefully that will happen next summer. Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place.
4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag. This works fine for now.