Making Stair Treads For Hardwood Flooring

It was suggested to me by the sales guy that i could just build my own out of hardwood floor pieces.

Making stair treads for hardwood flooring.

The stairs are also carpeted and the current treads under the carpet are 3 4 and the risers are 1 2. The hand scraping method you choose for your floor doesn t have to stop when it comes to the stair treads. Here because i am making a replacement nosing in the shop i hand sand the tread with a palm sander using 100 grit paper. Depending on your comfort level with the safety of hand scraped stair treads competent stair manufacturers and installers can distress and embellish stair treads newels and balusters so that the design is unified and flows between them.

Next i apply stain and finish to the tread to match the existing stairs. 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. I m considering the stairtek retread product as a replacement for the carpet.

This video is a tutorial about how to make a stair nosing from hardwood flooring boards. I plan on leaving the current stair treads and risers in place cutting off the nosing and installing 3 4 prefinished red oak treads 1 4 risers and scotia molding under the oak tread nosing. While the domestic treads will start at 30 or so longer length returns and prefinished will run the price up. Here is a step by step guide on how to complete this project successfully.

Separately i had stumbled upon the rubio monocoat product and had wondered if this might be a good finish for hardwood stair treads. Wooden stair treads average cost. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. If you are paying a contractor to do the job expect to pay 100 150.

A lot goes in to installing hardwood on stairs. 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. If you were on the job site you would now install the tread on the stairs and sand the tread and nosing together. This will be significantly cheaper.