How To Finish Stairs With Laminate Flooring
Once this is done measure and cut out your pieces of laminate to make tread pieces riser pieces and stair nosing.
How to finish stairs with laminate flooring. How to finish stairs with laminate. Laminate floor planks work well on stairs. The riser must come flush with the surface of the tread and the stair nose which goes on last curls around the top of the riser and either fits flush against the laminate. The international building code specifies a maximum riser height of 7 inches so a single laminate plank usually suffices but you may prefer to use pine poplar or some other stainable wood instead.
Alternatively you could cover the overhang with plywood to make it level. The risers go on next. Measure each tread separately as stairs are often slightly out of square and even very small gaps will be visible in the finished product.