Taking Carpet Off Stairs And Painting Them

Cut the carpet.

Taking carpet off stairs and painting them.

Pull the carpeting off the stairs starting at the top of the stairwell. 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. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples.

Ripping off the carpet and painting the stairs was the best decision i made. 3 cut or tear off carpet and put in garbage bag. I give up on the little bit of paint that i couldn t get off on the sides. 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.

Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house. Removing carpet from stairs and painting them. Tips for removing carpet from stairs find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs. 4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag.

You may need to cut portions of the. I also have this to contend with. I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar. 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 4 repair the many. My method was this. Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them. Step 3 repair all of the holes in the walls the builders hid with the carpet.

How to replace stair carpet with paint 1. Scrape any rough. 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. 1 pry up the right corner.

Now that you ve gained a handful of carpet yank it back in quick motions to continue breaking the seal along the walls. Pull up all the carpet pad. Step 1 remove the nasty carpet from the stairs. 2 pull carpet over to the left until reaching the spindles.

Resist the temptation to pound nails. Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the. Step 2 remove nails and millions of staples patch any holes prime the treads and risers. Painting them black is my plan c in this little stair project of mine.

Pull off tack strips or pull out nails and staples with the prybar and pliers.