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)

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Commonly used as fashion accessories, artificial nails and nail wraps are also beneficial for protecting unhealthy nails. The history of artificial nails has been traced back to China in the fourteenth century, where elite class women used to wear such accessories. It is said that Greek women used empty pistachio shells as artificial nails, during the nineteenth century. By the latter half of the twentieth century, artificial nails got common and today, we have various types, like acrylic nails, gel nails, nail wraps made of silk, linen, fiberglass, etc. Nowadays, silk wrap nails are among the much sought after nail accessories and are preferred to other types. This type of nail wrap is thin and flexible and offers a natural look too. Continue reading this article for some information on silk wrap nails and how to remove them.

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