The cost to install carpet depends on three factors.
Estimate stairs for carpet.
Luckily our stairs carpet calculator takes the guesswork out.
To install carpet stairs takes more work than your typical carpet installation.
Multiply the square footage of 1 step the number you just calculated by the total number of steps.
At the home depot the cost of carpet installation is free on purchases of 699 or more.
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.
Include an inch or two extra to wrap around the nose.
Divide by 12 and round up to get the number.
Length of the step.
Then measure the stair riser from the bottom to the top of the tread and round off to the nearest foot.
The carpet padding and the labor.
Here are a few tips on estimating the cost to install carpet on the stairs.
How to measure stairs for carpet.
Measure the rise and run.
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.
Therefore it can be more difficult to estimate the cost to install the carpet on stairs as well.
This is the total area or square footage for the stairs you plan to carpet.
Multiply that by the number of stairs.
For a straight staircase.
Width x run rise nose x number of stairs area.
Determine approximately how much carpet will be installed on the stairs.
Count the total number of stairs and record that number.