Ripping out carpet and painting stairs.
Ripping out carpet on stairs.
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.
Not my favorite look.
If you are pulling up carpet from stairs.
To remove carpet from stairs start at the top.
If anyone tries to tell you that this is an easy diy project they are lying.
Pry up the metal nosing and remove it if present.
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.
Carpet tack strips can usually remain in place but look for rust rot or other damage.
Removing old carpet from stairs is an easy diy project you can take on yourself.
Removing carpet isn t as simple as ripping it up and throwing it out.
Grab the cut end of carpet and pull it from the stairs using gloved hands.
Posted on july 2 2014 by k8freeman.
The family room living room and dining room.
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.
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.
Begin at the top of the stairs.
As i mentioned previously we put in hardwood on the first floor earlier this year.
If not cut the carpet near the top of the top stair riser.
Start ripping up the carpet.
Now a couple of pointers.
Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house.
I should say we put hardwood in the rooms on the first floor that did not have hardwood i e.
Check out our flooring ideas playlist for more tips.
Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them.
Carpet across blogland may be flying off stairs after this one.