It was time to renovate our carpeted stairs.
How to install hardwood flooring on stair treads.
A little bit of history us floors initially offered only one option the stair cap.
While the domestic treads will start at 30 or so longer length returns and prefinished will run the price up.
Stair treads are available in all domestic species such as red oak maple and hickory and can also be ordered in the exotics.
Wooden stair treads average cost.
It ended up being a little more difficult than normal since we planned on installing hardwood flooring on stairs with an existing nosing but i found an easy solution.
A lot goes in to installing hardwood on stairs.
Nothing finishes a room off better than complementing your hardwood flooring with a beautiful hardwood staircase.
In most home improvement projects the skeleton of your stairs is already built but the surface parts the treads and risers might need replacing.
It matched the color and concealed the seam where the riser meets the tread.
We replaced our floors upstairs with beautiful new hardwoods and that made these stairs look even worse.
Wood treads and risers are typically installed by a stair specialist not the company installing the flooring although some high end wood flooring contractors also handle stairs.
Installation of solid hardwood treads and risers takes place in a single installation step significantly reducing installation time.
If you had a bullnose stair tread you had to decide if you were going to shave the tread s nose to achieve a proper 90 degree angle.
Solid treads eliminates the need of attaching a narrow stair nose piece to a step promoting safety and ease of maintenance.