Adding Carpet To Wood Stairs

Cleaning carpeting stairs.

Adding carpet to wood stairs.

With carpeted stairs you will never be able to adequately clean that angle where tread and riser meet. We loved our remodeled painted and stained wood staircase in our last house see the reveal here and check out all the steps here. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and. Cleaning carpeted stairs mean using a handheld vacuum and you will never be able to get them perfectly clean.

As a result after removing the carpet the bottom step had a 7 rise and the top step had a 8 5 rise. Here was my situation. Hardwood treads attach to a bare frame and average 160 per step including labor. The stairs in our home were ancient and had a smell to them.

The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel. Stain and clear coat your stairs to give them long lasting appeal. It was bad we decided to rip out the old carpet and see what we had to work with underneath. All three of these methods make the surface of each stair rougher add traction and significantly reduce the risk of slipping.

So we got to work and this is our process on how to remodel stairs from carpet to wood. Our guest today has a lovely hardwood stair remodel to share with us. My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look. Use a foam brush to apply the stain and wipe with a lint free cloth.

Cost to put hardwood flooring on stairs. This is our stairs before. By contrast wooden stairs can be cleaned with a whisk broom and dustpan. Learn how to rip up that carpet on your stairs and reveal or create the beautiful hardwood that s been hiding underneath.

The best way to make your hardwood stairs less slippery is to add traction by installing carpet anti slip adhesive stair treads or applying a coat of anti slip floor finish to the surface of each stair. Adding treads to a flight of stairs would cost 1 600 to 1 920 with labor. Suzanne if your room is directly below the stairs then it might be a little too loud to rip out the carpet but you could rip the carpet out and refinish them then add a stair runner there are some great runners from dash and albert that are affordable. The average flight of stairs is 10 to 12 steps.

We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following. Maybe we could refinish the stairs.