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.

I m considering the stairtek retread product as a replacement for the carpet. This will be significantly cheaper. It was suggested to me by the sales guy that i could just build my own out of hardwood floor pieces. If you were on the job site you would now install the tread on the stairs and sand the tread and nosing together.

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. In most home improvement projects the skeleton of your stairs is already built but the surface parts the treads and risers might need replacing. 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.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Next i apply stain and finish to the tread to match the existing stairs. 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. If you are paying a contractor to do the job expect to pay 100 150.

Stair treads are available in all domestic species such as red oak maple and hickory and can also be ordered in the exotics. Our stairs still have carpet and they lead from a lightly stained oak hardwood floor to our daylight basement. So while you can use hardwood flooring to piece together stair treads the overwhelming benefits of solid stair treads cannot be overstated. A lot goes in to installing hardwood on stairs.

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. Here because i am making a replacement nosing in the shop i hand sand the tread with a palm sander using 100 grit paper. 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.