Carpeting on stairways serves many purposes. Subdued carpeting, close to the color of the stair steps, will vanish into the woodwork while providing protection for the treads and feeling thicker in your feet. Bold carpeting, cascading down the staircase, draws the eye up the stairwell and to the second floor. Poorly attached carpeting is a serious risk to stair climbers, so take additional care to guarantee that the carpeting is tightly secured.
Assess the width of the stairway runner. Measure, cut and mark tack strips to this width, then one per stair tread.
Center each tack strip to the rear of the stair tread from the riser. Hammer each one of the nails along the tack strip down securing it to the tread.
Staple the carpet reporter on the bottom riser of this stairway, close to the floor. Insert 1 staple per inch along the bottom edge of the carpet runner.
Pull the carpeting tautly up the bottom riser and staple the runner to the underside of the tread cap, close to the riser.
Wrap the carpeting across the stair tread. Rank the knee-kicker at one edge of the runner, 4 inches from the rear of the measure, on the bottom stair tread. Knee the kicker, stretching the speaker above the tack strip. Work the knee-kicker round the tread, ensuring you just grab the runner tightly on the tack strip.
Insert the carpet tool involving the tack strip and the riser. Push the carpeting down over the tack strip by hitting on the carpet tool with a rubber hammer across the rear of the measure.
Staple the carpeting to the riser several inches over the stack strip. Repeat these steps moving up the stairwell until you reach the top of the stairway.
Cut the runner in the top step so that there’s enough left to switch under the top cap and staple it in place.