How to Remove Carpet from Stairs | Gross Old Carpet Removal
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2025
- I removed the old carpet in the stairs and living room of the house I'm renovating this week! Using pretty much only hand tools, anyone can rip up a carpet and save yourself money when putting in a new floor. Check out the whole process in the video.
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Best part was seeing those little hands! Great video, as always. Will be ripping out all the carpet on the first floor of our house in a few months and this is good inspiration for that.
Melissa, consider adding a tack puller to your tool collection. Hands down my go to tool for everything. I do not go anywhere without it and it’s gotten me out of so many jams. I recently removed carpet during a rental remodel, used it and reg pliers and was finished with staples in no time.
Agreed. Removing carpet from stairs can be extremely frustrating. Our house is 100 years old (this year!). It's a two story with a beautiful wooden staircase with an awesome railing and fancy newel post. At some point in it's life, all the steps were carpeted. Ours didn't have carpet tack strips, just hundreds and hundreds of staples. I used a good quality pair of Lineman's Pliers. They have a square jaw that fits tightly to the wood and will pull out anything that is slightly higher, like a staple. A very slow process but we did manage to save the wood underneath.
Great job, and awesome channel. Take care.
OMG... deja vu! Recently ripped old carpet out of 3 bedrooms and the hall to get to the original oak hardwood floors. Like you, I though it was going great until I got to the staples and the tack strip. A million staples and they must have nailed the tack strip every few inches. Did a full set of stairs a couple of years ago. Biggest pain in the butt ever and I feel your pain & frustration. I don't think I've ever seen you show so much fatigue and frustration!
Man you are a warrior! Great job Melissa.
The harder it is to pull is evidence of the professional installation .Great work Woods,thank you for the info.,getting ready to tear out and replace stairs runner in a 120 year old farm house.Good luck.
Kudos to Melissa. And thanks for answering my unasked question - Doesn't that get to your back? That's a ton of labor just getting ready to do your magic. Bless you.
Our carpet was laid over a concrete slab. Broke lots of the little nails from the tack strips off in the concrete. No staples to worry about. But there was GLUE, lots of GLUE attaching the pad to the floor. Used a large scraper to clean the concrete. Fun! Think I would rather deal with glue instead of staples. Keep up the good work.
The 9 in 1 Painters tool is great for underlayment staple removal, especially on smaller areas like stairs. I've also used a long handled lino scraper with the 4" square reversible blade for larger areas, works great & saves your back.
Carpet removal is essentially the same as how you did it but try using a pair of spring loaded grips or pliers to grab & pull the edge of the carpet.
For pulling carpet on stairs l use the grips to pull on & tension the carpet then a hammer to hit the carpet, the hammer blows will pull the carpet off of the risers & Treads as you continue to maintain the tension. I always work from the top riser down.
Hope these tips help for the other areas.😁
I like to roll the tac strips into the carpet because it protects you from getting poked when disposing of them. Also I use the pry bar and just ram it into the left over staples in the floor. Kind of like you did with the hammer but just use speed and they pop right out.
Good job Melissa!
Great job
And the little hands at the 2:00 min mark was a nice surprise.
Great work! It really isn't easy work. I will say it is much easier with the proper tools and experience with the proper technique. Carpet blades are far more sharp than a standard box cutter, a simple sturdy spade shovel can be used to pry the tackstrips up, staple scaper or even a flat shovel then there's pulling down the stairs gravity will aid you.
Great job. Consider cutting the carpet into 2=3 foot widths and rolling up those nasty tack strips inside the roll and tie them closed. Makes it easier to handle!
Have been doing a lot of this to prep for arrival of daughter (#4) and you are right about the multitool. (btw best tool ever)
Love those cute little fingers waving at the edge of the camera🥰 great ideas as always
Wow your channel is growing really fast!
I used to remove and install carpet before becoming a carpenter. Yep, this is pretty much the way to do it. Great example here
This looks like a genuine dolphin smile (they are rar :) 05:30 ^^
Absolute beautiful smile :)
Beautiful work
Contoured carpeting AND a vinyl carpet runner. So they were very concerned about wear and tear on the carpet, but bought a lite color! I'd bet that was lifetime install guarantee to boot!
I am a carpet contractor for over 25 years and will give you some tips to make it easier next time ... (sorry but I saw your baby`s fingers in one shot and had to mention it) first thing I saw your baby when started to lift the old carpet, please do not even keep him in the same room as you are lifting a lot of old nasty dust and some times could be mold under or old urine or pet hair, nails, sharp pieces of metals or anything that can fly will fly or who knows what that anyone will breathe while inside that room, is a nasty construction site at that point ... what I do is loosen all the carpet from all the room just the perimeter first then just fold over about 3ft ad cut strips that are easy to carry , no need to kill yourself on big pieces (unless you want to save it) and cut thru the backing and roll it to haul ,then the next 3ft or 4 and roll and cut until is done ... to take the padding with the staples we use a basic carpet scraper with a old blade so it doesn`t dig in the wood (on concrete it scrapes the glue or old vct tiles or even paint or mud if job was done after carpet was removed in many places ) just pushed from under the padding hitting the staples and pulling them with the padding together , a scraper is a basic tool and knee pads (imagine if that nail in your shoe could had hurt you knee ) to prep all floors and even helps many times in taking off the tacks strips too , the strips are on concrete do not remove them if reinstalling carpet because they are concrete nails and when removed they chip leaving holes around the edges just secure them if needed or add but if changing to other flooring get the flat prybar and hammer (as you did) and give a solid hit from below each nail to pop them loose until the whole strip is loose but not break it in small pieces yet , just lift and follow (but I know it is something we do because of practice that for us is about saving time and effort) in as longer pieces as possible and this works for wood too , then gather all those tacks onto one of those of carpet rolls evenly as possible , roll tight and haul with ease not getting pricked by the tacks while cleaning , then scrape all the padding with the staples and roll that away ,then scrape some more until the floor is swept clean and ready for what ever flooring or job will be done... the stairs removal is as bad as you saw but cutting the inner edge(right under the rails) separating the edge from the big middle pieces so easier to pull off ,stapled is easier leaving the outer stapled edge for later as you did because that is the hardest and loaded with staples that you might need pliers to remove them ... prepping floors or walls or paint or any new installation is many times 50% or 70% of the job to have a successful outcome... sorry for the long comment but just trying to help as I came across you video , I could give you more tips if need them but I think you will hate me for it ! hahaha... good luck and hope this help a bit, you did great kid ! ...cheers !
Brilliant advice, I will be kitting my self out with full protective gear and tools to ensure that it is as quick and painless as possible.
Hi Melissa, one friendly suggestion for you. Get yourself a sturdy pair of working boots. You don’t want to get a cut or an infection on your feet. Good work!
I use a paper work staple remover from my office desk. Worked like a charm.
Have you discovered 'skirting over skirting' Melissa? It is great - you just get primed MFD skirting boards (base boards) and lay them over the top of the existing boards. Makes covering up carpet, lino or LVT so much easier and no damage to the wall - winner winner chicken dinner 🙂
Well done 👍
Next time you have a lot of staples to pull, the best tool for it is fence pliers. It looks like a cross between a claw hammer and pliers. The pointy part on back is the absolute perfect shape for getting under and removing staples in just one pass. For the stubborn 10% or so, the pliers help you pull them the rest of the way out with a rocking motion
Great job and glad you wore shoes 😂
Looking good! Are you going to put hardwood flooring in?
Putting in waterproof laminate 😊
Excellent video...you are a real stick to it type person...you must be pretty strong cause that's not easy work...do you also workout to keep toned?
Nope, you're watching my workout lol
@@WelcometotheWoodsBlog beats heading out to the gym...lol...keep up the good work and videos
I just did this recently in our house and an old butter knife worked well to pry up the tack strips. I couldn't get the pry bar under.
Well done ,Think the guy who installed my carpet got paid by the staple and nails lol👍
Haha 😂
And old flat blade screwdriver works great on staples.
I used an ice chopper scraper many times to remove staples
Good job
Its nice when someone installs something really well......until you go to take it out ha
Yup lol!
Could have probably used a shingle stripper on the floor to remove the staples. May have been quicker and easier.
I've found that removing carpet padding staples doesn't even need a hammer, just slide the crowbar like a block plane and it pulls up 90% of those little guys
I've also done this job. Dirty job. You need some patience. Plus you are likely choking and sneezing from the junk that comes out of an old carpet once you start to rip. I ripped an arm muscle pulling against the carpet tack strips, that took about a year to heal.
Ah the dreaded stair carpet same as the dreaded bathroom carpet 🤣
Please do not forget safety glasses!!
I'm not a carpet installer or professional, but I never understood why they want you to have your baseboards installed before they can install the carpet.
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