Carpeting of stairs is a tedious process and takes a lot more time and energy than carpeting a room. It is in recent times that carpeting of stairs has taken the home furnishing industry by storm. Not everyone knows how to carpet stairs and therefore, professional expertise is needed to achieve this arduous task. Carpeting a bare staircase is quite simpler than replacing an already carpeted one.

With the growing taste of householders towards making their homes look elegant, carpeting the staircase is in vogue and professional carpenters, who know how to carpet stairs, are minting money through providing their expert services.

If your stairs are straight and have no complexities you can carpet your stairs through some easy do it yourself steps. There are simple set of tools which are normally required to carpet and beautify your stairs. These include pliers, awl, a board bladed chisel, hammer, pencil etc. In addition, one also needs certain other materials like tack-less carpet fastening strips, heavy rubber or felt stair carpet padding, paper, carpet runner as well as heavy duty staples.

Multi Color Stair Carpet

You need to know the basics of how to carpet stairs, and from where you need to start. Firstly, you need to have the correct measurements of the total floor area of the stairs and thereby divide the total floor area with the individual stairs step area. Secondly, you also need to measure the width of the staircase and broadly estimate the area to be covered with carpet for each step, not to forget the total number flight of stairs by measuring the tread and riser. After having taken all these measurements accurately you can then start the process of cutting the carpet as per the measurements. Once done, you need to tuck the carpet to the tack strip and apply the tack strip to the stair case location. Finally, you need to carefully nail the tack strips to the stair step. This whole process is to be repeated for each and every riser. Next, wait and watch and look at the work you have done, and if all is well then you need to move ahead and finish the whole of the staircase using repeated steps.

The miscalculation of measurements should be avoided, the opposite of which will lead you to start the process all over again and would also add to economic loss as the carpet you have cut would be basically useless. So you have to be careful enough at each step in order to have that mark of perfection while carpeting your staircase.

Thus with all the time and energy you have spend, you must have got a fair amount of idea as to how to carpet stairs. Carpeting stairs is actually an art and one needs to have faith and patience in ones own ability to make their stairs look elegant and sturdy.

Once you have repeatedly mastered the art of carpeting the staircase, you can be a professional and can even be an author of the book “How to carpet Stairs”.

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