Ripping Up Carpet On Stairs

I m working on replacing the carpet downstairs in dr lr fr with hardwood but is still an issue.

Ripping up carpet on stairs.

Take these five things into consideration. 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. Carpeted stairs consist of a carpet pad nosing tack strips tread riser and carpet. Pulling carpet up from stairs.

I have two sets of stairs both carpeted and large landing leading to the second level. 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. If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it. Ripping up the carpet was hard and messy work.

Some stairs are covered. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top. 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. This has been one of the longest weeks of my life and the final reveal is no where close to being finished.

Start ripping up the carpet. This works fine for now. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and create a brighter more modern entry. I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway.

I have hardwood in my foyer which is pretty big and powder room. Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place. It was also the easy part. After much internal debate i couldn t take it anymore and started ripping up the carpet on our stairs.

Suddenly i was a lot more motivated to rip up the carpet in our stairway. Now a couple of pointers. Our spindles are attached directly to our treads so that means the carpet was wrapped around these spindles. The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel.

Hopefully that will happen next summer. I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day. If anyone tries to tell you that this is an easy diy project they are lying. 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.

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.