If you prefer you can round over a piece of wood.
Making stair treads from hardwood flooring.
Stair treads are available in all domestic species such as red oak maple and hickory and can also be ordered in the exotics.
If you re going to do that measure the tread size cut the tread and then attach it.
Wooden stair treads average cost.
Hardwood treads attach to a bare frame and average 160 per step including labor.
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.
So while you can use hardwood flooring to piece together stair treads the overwhelming benefits of solid stair treads cannot be overstated.
While the domestic treads will start at 30 or so longer length returns and prefinished will run the price up.
The other option is to replace the tread piece entirely with a hardwood border.
We carry hardwood flooring laminate bamboo cork vinyl area rugs and even staircase materials like iron balusters so whether you know exactly what kind of flooring you want or you are in the very beginning phase of shopping for new floors we can help you every step of the way.
Attach that piece with construction adhesive and nails as well.
It is a beautiful european white oak.
In this video we re using a tread that already has a rounded front.
The first step to matching stair treads to prefinished flooring is using the same species of wood.
So we made sure and order white oak stair treads.
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.
Nothing finishes a room off better than complementing your hardwood flooring with a beautiful hardwood staircase.
If you are paying a contractor to do the job expect to pay 100 150.
For example in our new house we are using sea smoke from adm flooring.
Cost to put hardwood flooring on stairs.