Tear Up Carpet On Stairs

Cut the carpet with a utility knife under the nose of the landing.

Tear up carpet on stairs.

I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day. If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it. I started with the bottom step by using pliers to pull carpet away from stairs. So here is the project replace carpet with stair runner tutorial.

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. The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are. Once you get the carpet up this is what you will see. I repaired the treads removed.

Grip the carpet with both hands for easier removal and to maintain balance and safety. Start at the top of the stairs and remove the carpet with the vise grips and utility knife. I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar to pry the carpet away from the tack strip. This works fine for now.

Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. Hopefully that will happen next summer. Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place.

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. 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. I removed all of the padding tack strips nails and staples. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top.

Find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs. Pull up all the carpet pad. Use the vise grips to pull the carpet free from the riser. One year ago i ripped up all of the beige carpet on my stairs.