Tearing Up Carpet On Stairs

With a flat head screw driver up against the nail strip strike the end of the screw driver with a hammer until you can get under the nail strip and pull it up you may want to use gloves during this step.

Tearing up carpet on stairs.

This works fine for now. 3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag. Hopefully that will happen next summer. 4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag.

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. 2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles. My method was this. 1 pry up the right corner.

Here are smart jr s pictures of me ripping off the second to last stair. 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. Some stairs are covered with short sections of carpet that wrap over just one tread and riser. I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day.

Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place. The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are.