Having carpet on the stairs is infinitely safer than having the stairs covered with hard surface flooring.
Install hardwood on carpeted stairs.
Stain and clear coat your stairs to give them long lasting appeal.
We replaced our floors upstairs with beautiful new hardwoods and that made these stairs look even worse.
Types of stairs that may benefit from carpeting.
The total is the length of the runner carpet you will need to cover the stairs.
Glued carpet may leave residue that you need.
Hard surfaces are slippery and can easily lead to a fall.
For a professional installation the numbers come in like this.
Hardwood stairs average 100 to 200 per step including labor a flight of stairs is 10 to 12 steps and would cost 1 000 to 2 400.
Included are carpet pad and tack strip removal along with preparing the actual substrate that calls for removing the existing rough nosing.
Keep in mind rates will vary from one region to another.
The initial work is the preparation for placing hardwood on the stairs.
People often ask me how to connect hardwood or laminate floor with staircase installation i always prefer start wood flooring installation from stairs but e.
Here s our starting point.
Preparation for hardwood ripping up the carpet from your stairway is likely to reveal tack strips along both sides that you can pull up with a pry bar.
It ended up being a little more difficult than normal since we planned on installing hardwood flooring on stairs with an existing nosing but i found an easy solution.
Follow the instructions on dry time.
Once it dries apply two coats of clear coat.
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.
If you need more than one runner add an additional 12 inches to the total to account for seams where the two carpet pieces will join.
Add the two figures together then add 6 inches to account for waste.
Use a foam brush to apply the stain and wipe with a lint free cloth.
Installation and materials can range as low as 1 000 and as high as 30 000 price depends on several factors.