We replaced our floors upstairs with beautiful new hardwoods and that made these stairs look even worse.
How to install hardwood flooring on stair treads.
Nothing finishes a room off better than complementing your hardwood flooring with a beautiful hardwood staircase.
Stair treads are available in all domestic species such as red oak maple and hickory and can also be ordered in the exotics.
Here s our starting point.
If you are paying a contractor to do the job expect to pay 100 150.
Wood treads and risers are typically installed by a stair specialist not the company installing the flooring although some high end wood flooring contractors also handle stairs.
A lot goes in to installing hardwood on stairs.
It matched the color and concealed the seam where the riser meets the tread.
In most home improvement projects the skeleton of your stairs is already built but the surface parts the treads and risers might need replacing.
Wooden stair treads average cost.
A little bit of history us floors initially offered only one option the stair cap.
Installation of solid hardwood treads and risers takes place in a single installation step significantly reducing installation time.
While the domestic treads will start at 30 or so longer length returns and prefinished will run the price up.
Here is a step by step guide on how to complete this project successfully.
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.