Tearing Up Carpet On Stairs

This is our stairs before.

Tearing up carpet on stairs.

This equals 48 to 72 per hour because it usually takes 3 hours to remove carpet from a 12 by 12 foot room including extracting the tack strips and staples. 4 tear up padding and put in garbage bag 5 pull up any staples that could be stepped on 6 then deal with area around spindles by carefully prying and ripping away small pieces of carpet. I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.

Unlike other parts of the house stairs have not been claimed by human occupants. Teach your cat that scratching is fine but only on appropriate surfaces. I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top.

Carpet removal costs 1 to 1 50 per square foot including labor cleanup and waste disposal. Train your cat out of scratching the staircase carpet. Removing the carpet went a lot faster than i had anticipated and was able to get it done in 2 evenings. Hello for the question around finishing carpet at the top of the stairs they mentioned in their how to and showed a photo of how they left the carpet at the top of the stairs the last step folded down on the riser and used a sharp blade to cut the carpet on the top riser.

My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look. It appears they left a two inch overhang of carpet on the top. This works fine for now. 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.

Because i have a child with asthma as well as a dog who thinks he needs to taste anything he can find on the floor i broke it up and completed a stair at a time rolling the carpet up as i went. This involves providing alternative scratching surfaces such as cat trees and posts. Hopefully that will happen next summer. The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel.

If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it. The average hourly rate is 60 per hour so expect to pay 180 in total for a contractor to remove and dispose of 12 by. 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.