There are many types of hardwood flooring available ranging from prefinished laminated also called engineered strips and planks.
How to install prefinished hardwood flooring on stairs.
Stair treads are available in all domestic species such as red oak maple and hickory and can also be ordered in the exotics.
These wood stair treads are already finished at the factory so there s no need for messy polyurethane after these stairs are installed in your home.
While the domestic treads will start at 30 or so longer length returns and prefinished will run the price up.
A lot goes in to installing hardwood on stairs.
Here is a step by step guide on how to complete this project successfully.
Prefinished stair treads makes it easy and safe to install hardwood flooring on stairs.
In most home improvement projects the skeleton of your stairs is already built but the surface parts the treads and risers might need replacing.
Measure the riser on the bottom step.
Cut the prefinished stair riser to the proper height using a circular saw.
Installing hardwood flooring on stairs you can face with open sided staircase.