If you prefer you can round over a piece of wood.
Can you change carpeted stairs to hardwood.
The rest of the steps had a 7 5 rise.
We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following.
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.
The other option is to replace the tread piece entirely with a hardwood border.
Attach that piece with construction adhesive and nails as well.
Installing plank on carpeted stairs five page series.
The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel.
When you come to the stairs you should be able to find.
I started with the bottom step by using pliers to pull the carpet away from stairs.
Think about the number of times you use the stairs in a day and all it takes is a tired lazy step at the end of the day when it comes to stairs be safe follow the code.
In this video we re using a tread that already has a rounded front.
But cold weather hit before we got around to sanding and staining the handrails so they sat in the garage until the weather warmed up.
Shown and discussed in this five page series is a collaboration of how an engineered plank was installed on a roughed framed wood substrate or the actual surface once the carpet and padding is removed.
This is our stairs before.
To tell you the truth we had most of the transformation from carpeted stairs to hardwood completed last fall.
You can actually sense that difference as you go up and down the stairs.
Is this a project i can handle.
Once you get the carpet up this is what you will see.
Stairs so beautiful you can t take your eyes off them.
If you re going to do that measure the tread size cut the tread and then attach it.
Is a 1 difference in rise that important.
You can totally do this even if you are a beginner at diy so don t let fear get in your way.
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I will take you step by step no pun intended 1.
Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.
Just beautiful hardwood stairs.