How To Fit Wooden Flooring On Stairs

Attach that piece with construction adhesive and nails as well.

How to fit wooden flooring on stairs.

Here s our starting point. To install laminate flooring on stairs start by removing the overhang or the underside of the stairs with a jigsaw. Once this is done measure and cut out your pieces of laminate to make tread pieces riser pieces and stair nosing. Wooden stair treads average cost stair treads are available in all domestic species such as red oak maple and hickory and can also be ordered in the exotics.

Fortunately if you re looking to change the look of your staircase it is fairly easy to install engineered wood flooring on stairs even for beginning diyers. Place flooring adhesive on the back of the riser and glue it into place on the. A lot goes in to installing hardwood on stairs. We replaced our floors upstairs with beautiful new hardwoods and that made these stairs look even worse.

While the domestic treads will start at 30 or so longer length returns and prefinished will run the price up. 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. In most home improvement projects the skeleton of your stairs is already built but the surface parts the treads and risers might need replacing. In this video we re using a tread that already has a rounded front.

Here is a step by step guide on how to complete this project successfully. Cut the prefinished stair riser to the proper height using a circular saw. Alternatively you could cover the overhang with plywood to make it level. If you prefer you can round over a piece of wood.

Measure the riser on the bottom step. If you re going to do that measure the tread size cut the tread and then attach it.