Do you have a staircase that could use some help.
Carpet stairs to wooden stairs.
Using a varnish stripper remove the top coat from the stair treads.
I didn t take a picture of the stairs before with carpet but imagine carpeted stairs in pretty much every house built in the 1980 s that you ve ever entered and you ll have a pretty good idea of what.
Directions for how to update carpeted stairs into a wooden staircase.
Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.
You know all of those stair tutorials that are a lot of work.
This is our stairs before.
From carpet to wood stairs redo cheater version.
First prep the stairs by removing the carpet with a utility knife and a pry bar.
Use pliers and a pry bar to pull up any nails tacks and tack strips.
First we had to get rid of the existing bullnoses on the stairs.
Remove the carpet from the stairs.
One thing it doesn t fix though.
What is the best way to achieve the transition.
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.
The rest of the steps had a 7 5 rise.
It seems the norm is wood to carpet.
After removing the carpet dispose of the carpet pad.
Check out my step by step tutorial so that you can redo your own stairs with minimal work and maximum effect.
And carpet on stairs gets so many stains and wears out so quickly.
Lots of scraping and lots of painting.
We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following.
Sure new carpet would be great but wow it s not cheap.
As a result after removing the carpet the bottom step had a 7 rise and the top step had a 8 5 rise.
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 have existing hardwoods underneath be careful.
My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look.
They are called retro treads and mine were unstained red oak from lowes.
Consider that you ve got both padding and carpet working for the cause and you ll realize that bare wooden stairs can in no way match the quiet that carpet offers.
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Fill in any holes in the wood with wood filler.
Carpets provide safety for stairs.
Carpet is great at blunting or even completely eliminating the sound of people walking on wooden stairs.
Even if you prefer hard surfaces such as hardwood or laminate carpet on the stairs is still a good idea even if it is in the form of a runner on the stairs having carpet on the stairs is infinitely safer than having the stairs covered with hard surface flooring.
Here was my situation.
Well this is a cheater version little scraping little painting that uses wood caps on top off your existing stairs.
Sand the wood using multiple grit sandpaper.