Luckily our stairs carpet calculator takes the guesswork out.
Estimate stairs for carpet.
Multiply that by the number of stairs.
How to measure stairs for carpet.
For a straight staircase.
Then measure the stair riser from the bottom to the top of the tread and round off to the nearest foot.
Say that you ll be carpeting 12 stairs.
The cost to install carpet depends on three factors.
Determine approximately how much carpet will be installed on the stairs.
Therefore it can be more difficult to estimate the cost to install the carpet on stairs as well.
Divide by 12 and round up to get the number.
The carpet padding and the labor.
This is the total area or square footage for the stairs you plan to carpet.
Length of the step.
Include an inch or two extra to wrap around the nose.
Measure the rise and run.
Width x run rise nose x number of stairs area.
Count the total number of stairs and record that number.
This means that in order to work with the size of a roll of carpet not all of the stairs are installed in one piece.
Multiply the square footage of 1 step the number you just calculated by the total number of steps.
The carpet on stairs must run in the same direction on every stair and the direction of the pile must go with the flow of traffic from top to bottom not from side to side.
Height of the step.
To install carpet stairs takes more work than your typical carpet installation.