A lot goes in to installing hardwood on stairs.
How to install hardwood flooring on stair treads.
Installation of solid hardwood treads and risers takes place in a single installation step significantly reducing installation time.
Here s our starting point.
A little bit of history us floors initially offered only one option the stair cap.
It matched the color and concealed the seam where the riser meets the tread.
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.
We replaced our floors upstairs with beautiful new hardwoods and that made these stairs look even worse.
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 was time to renovate our carpeted stairs.
Solid treads eliminates the need of attaching a narrow stair nose piece to a step promoting safety and ease of maintenance.
Wooden stair treads average cost.
Nothing finishes a room off better than complementing your hardwood flooring with a beautiful hardwood staircase.
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.
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.