How To Hardwood Flooring Stairs
I had the same issue that kelly over at lilypad cottage was dealing with during her stair renovation.
How to hardwood flooring stairs. First prep the stairs by removing the carpet with a utility knife and a pry bar. If you have existing hardwoods underneath be careful when cutting the carpet. You don t want to damage them. Buy premade stair treads.
Matching treads with new flooring falls into a custom category. Flooring hardwood flooring installation care 4 comments 6 a lot goes in to installing hardwood on stairs. Cut the prefinished stair riser to the proper height using a circular saw. This also helps your stain to better match your floor.
Dealing with the stair nosing. Stair treads have the nosing built in so it looks much better and is a lot less wasteful. Choose premade stair treads. Extremely hard to obtain with practically all prefinished floor manufacturers today.
Now we can talk about the proper way to do stair treads. They ll probably hem and haw and say i ll have to get back to you on that. In most home improvement projects the skeleton of your stairs is already built but the surface parts the treads and risers might need replacing. Place flooring adhesive on the back of the riser and glue it into place on the.
Measure the riser on the bottom step. Installing hardwood flooring on stairs you can face with open sided staircase. After removing the carpet dispose of the carpet pad. Remove staples nails or tack strips.
Each one of stair steps had a lip or edge on it nosing and the replacement hardwood flooring we planned to install didn t cover it. Matching floors and stair treads. Use pliers and a pry bar to pull up any nails tacks. Watch how to install treads risers and stair nosing on it.