How to Install Carpet on Stairs: Part 1

Series Summary

Home remodeling is something that most home owners will, at some point, need to tackle. Sometimes the cost of hiring a professional is just not feasible. Fortunately there are many home repairs that you can do yourself with tools that you may already own. In these videos, you will learn home remodeling tips from a qualified construction expert. Fixing a hole in the wall, installing carpet on stairs, repairing a cabinet door and latch, and sheetrock repair, are just some of the demonstrations you will see in these videos.

Replacing tile in a kitchen or bathroom can be an expensive task. However, if properly maintained and re-grouted, it is often possible to improve the look of your existing tile and save yourself the cost of replacement. In these videos, our expert will go through the different steps necessary to re-grout your tile, including mixing the grout, grouting the tile, and finally sealing the grout.

Video Transcript

"I’m Lee and I’m going to show you how to install carpet on steps. And the first thing that you want to know is that you have lay each individual step itself, and if you lay one wrong piece, then it’s going to come undone in a year, more or less.

What you want to do first is you want to measure the area just from the base all the way out to the end and then from the bottom base all the way up to the top of the padding. You lay it out on the back of the piece of carpet, and cut it like I’ve done on this piece right here. And you’re ready to install it more or less. And you want to make sure to short it by about a quarter of an inch- about a fourth of an inch, more or less. And you want to short the part that goes over the step because of the padding, and you will pull that in when you go around the padding. And you take your piece of carpet like this and lay it over to make sure that it fits; should be a little bit big, because you tuck it behind the piece of carpet on the lower step."