How to Install Carpet on Stairs

Installing a carpet on the stairs will be beneficial, if you have kids at home. It also adds to the beauty of your home. You must have already tried to install a carpet on the floor and found it quite simple. But you must also be thinking that it is difficult to install a carpet on the steps, as there are many angles and no continuous uniform area to be taken into consideration. If you know the simple technique of how to do it, you can carpet steps yourself.

To begin with the most basic, the vertical part of the stairs is known as the riser, whereas the horizontal part is known as the tread. There are two methods to install a carpet on stairs. One is the waterfall method, which is most commonly used. According to this method, the entire single piece of carpet is used to cover the stairs from top to bottom. The other method is the cap and band method, which is mostly used by experts. In this method, the carpet is cut and is fastened individually on every single tread and riser.

Following are the things that you will need to install a carpet:

Carpet (runner)
Tack strip
Hammer
Heavy duty stapler and staples (1/5 inch long)
Utility knife
Knee kicker or seaming iron
Carpet pad (underlay)