If you are paying a contractor to do the job expect to pay 100 150.
How to install hardwood flooring on stair treads.
If you had a bullnose stair tread you had to decide if you were going to shave the tread s nose to achieve a proper 90 degree angle.
Nothing finishes a room off better than complementing your hardwood flooring with a beautiful hardwood staircase.
Here s our starting point.
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.
In most home improvement projects the skeleton of your stairs is already built but the surface parts the treads and risers might need replacing.
A lot goes in to installing hardwood on stairs.
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.
Solid treads eliminates the need of attaching a narrow stair nose piece to a step promoting safety and ease of maintenance.
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.
We replaced our floors upstairs with beautiful new hardwoods and that made these stairs look even worse.
Wooden stair treads average cost.
Stair treads are available in all domestic species such as red oak maple and hickory and can also be ordered in the exotics.
It matched the color and concealed the seam where the riser meets the tread.