Replacing Carpet On Stairs With Wood

This is our stairs before.

Replacing carpet on stairs with wood.

Attach that piece with construction adhesive and nails as well. So we got to work and this is our process on how to remodel stairs from carpet to wood. Here was my situation. As a result after removing the carpet the bottom step had a 7 rise and the top step had a 8 5 rise.

How to replace stair carpet with paint 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. We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following. It was bad we decided to rip out the old carpet and see what we had to work with underneath. The first step was obviously removing all the gross carpet and 30 million staples later we were ready to go.

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. 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. I used a box cutter to cut the edge of the carpet padding on each stair.

The first step to replace carpet stairs with wood is to remove the carpet carpet padding and other hardware staples nails etc. A carpenter might not tackle this part of the job but you can hire a handyman for 60 to 65 an hour. Maybe we could refinish the stairs. The stairs in our home were ancient and had a smell to them.

The previous owner had installed tile near the doorway entry bottom of the stairs and 3 4 thick hardwood in the passageway at the top of the stairs. If you prefer you can round over a piece of wood. The other option is to replace the tread piece entirely with a hardwood border. In making the decision to replace all the flooring upstairs we realized we would have to do the staircase too or there would be a weird floating carpeted staircase stuck in between the wood flooring upstairs and down.

This process can be time consuming but it is important to get a flat surface that is free of debris. Replace carpeted stairs with wood cost to start removing carpet costs 75 to 300. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and. This made it easy to roll up the.