Taking Carpet Off Stairs And Painting Them

Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs.

Taking carpet off stairs and painting them.

4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag. How to replace stair carpet with paint 1. In fact it just got worse as i went down the stairs ripping that carpet and padding off. Pull the carpeting off the stairs starting at the top of the stairwell.

I also have this to contend with. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair. 1 pry up the right corner.

I give up on the little bit of paint that i couldn t get off on the sides. Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house. Step 2 remove nails and millions of staples patch any holes prime the treads and risers. 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.

Scrape any rough. 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. I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar. Ripping off the carpet and painting the stairs was the best decision i made.

Step 1 remove the nasty carpet from the stairs. Pull off tack strips or pull out nails and staples with the prybar and pliers. Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls. You may need to cut portions of the.

3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag. 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. Step 3 repair all of the holes in the walls the builders hid with the carpet. 2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.

Cut the carpet. Resist the temptation to pound nails. Removing carpet from stairs and painting them. 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.

Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. My method was this. Pull up all the carpet pad. 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.

Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them.