Taking Carpet Off Stairs And Painting Them

I give up on the little bit of paint that i couldn t get off on the sides.

Taking carpet off stairs and painting them.

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. My method was this. 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. Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair.

Step 3 repair all of the holes in the walls the builders hid with the carpet. Removing carpet from stairs and painting them. Scrape any rough. How to replace stair carpet with paint 1.

Painting them black is my plan c in this little stair project of mine. You may need to cut portions of the. Resist the temptation to pound nails. 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.

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. In fact it just got worse as i went down the stairs ripping that carpet and padding off. Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the. Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls.

Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs. I also have this to contend with. Step 2 remove nails and millions of staples patch any holes prime the treads and risers.

I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar. Step 1 remove the nasty carpet from the stairs. 1 pry up the right corner. 3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag.

Step 4 repair the many. Pull the carpeting off the stairs starting at the top of the stairwell. Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them. Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house.

Pull up all the carpet pad. Pull off tack strips or pull out nails and staples with the prybar and pliers. 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. 2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.

Cut the carpet.