Replacing Carpet With Hardwood Floors On Stairs

Types of stairs that may benefit from carpeting.

Replacing carpet with hardwood floors on stairs. Learn how to rip up that carpet on your stairs and reveal or create the beautiful hardwood that s been hiding underneath. Hey all we want to have a carpet stairs leading to a semi solid engineered plank wood landing. Replace carpet on stairs with hardwood. It seems the norm is wood to carpet.

This is our stairs before. I did a quick price comparison to replace carpet stairs with wood to show you the cost savings of using hardwood floor vs the matching stair treads risers. My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look. I used 6 pieces of the bamboo flooring on the mock stair.

Each piece of bamboo flooring is 3 75 wide and 36 long. If you prefer you can round over a piece of wood. If you currently have carpeted stairs tearing up the carpet will reveal a plywood substrate. Visit the chapters below go to matching floors stair treads.

How to transform carpeted stairs into hardwood. We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and. The new hardwood stairs will be attached to the substrate.

Do we have the wood floor on the very top stair on the landing which will be be higher than the rest of the stairs o. Price comparison analysis. The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel. What is the best way to achieve the transition.

If you re going to do that measure the tread size cut the tread and then attach it. In this video we re using a tread that already has a rounded front. The other option is to replace the tread piece entirely with a hardwood border. One of the most dramatic remodeling changes you can make is to rip up all the dusty old carpeting in a house and replace it with hardwood.

Attach that piece with construction adhesive and nails as well. Functional builder grade stairs stairs that exist only to move people from point a to point b with zero concern for aesthetics can be improved with carpeting it is difficult to fix unattractive stairs because they do not lend themselves to painting carpet works wonders on stairs like this.