Making Stair Treads For Hardwood Flooring

The hand scraping method you choose for your floor doesn t have to stop when it comes to the stair treads.

Making stair treads for hardwood flooring.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. If you were on the job site you would now install the tread on the stairs and sand the tread and nosing together. This means that not only are solid treads more visibly attractive but there is not a joint at the worst possible place where the nosing overhangs and is constantly under pressure and stress. In most home improvement projects the skeleton of your stairs is already built but the surface parts the treads and risers might need replacing.

Our stairs still have carpet and they lead from a lightly stained oak hardwood floor to our daylight basement. If you are paying a contractor to do the job expect to pay 100 150. This video is a tutorial about how to make a stair nosing from hardwood flooring boards. Here because i am making a replacement nosing in the shop i hand sand the tread with a palm sander using 100 grit paper.

He has nose pieces 3 wide by 8 long that i can attach to 2 or 3 pieces of hardwood floor that i can use to just build my own tread and then build my own risers out of a few pieces as well. I m considering the stairtek retread product as a replacement for the carpet. It was suggested to me by the sales guy that i could just build my own out of hardwood floor pieces. Next i apply stain and finish to the tread to match the existing stairs.

While the domestic treads will start at 30 or so longer length returns and prefinished will run the price up. This will be significantly cheaper. Here is a step by step guide on how to complete this project successfully. So while you can use hardwood flooring to piece together stair treads the overwhelming benefits of solid stair treads cannot be overstated.

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. Separately i had stumbled upon the rubio monocoat product and had wondered if this might be a good finish for hardwood stair treads. The stairs are also carpeted and the current treads under the carpet are 3 4 and the risers are 1 2.