Turn Stairs From Carpet To Wood

The other option is to buy premade wood treads and risers.

Turn stairs from carpet to wood.

The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel. Fill in any holes in the wood with wood filler. Place the sandpaper on the electric sander and sand the top and front of each step. What if the children slip she agonized.

My mother was against it. 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. When we bought our house it had carpet all in the upstairs and on the staircase. This is time consuming requires a lot of math and you should have experience with woodworking.

Using a varnish stripper remove the top coat from the stair treads. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and. Remove staples nails or tack strips. There are two methods you can choose from to install hardwood stairs.

Remove the carpet from the stairs. We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following. Glued carpet may leave residue that you need. The first is to buy raw wood and build your new stairs from scratch.

You don t want to damage them. I left the 5 upper stairs carpet and while it may seem strange it was the easiest place to stop the wood since our family room upstairs had carpeting. It didn t make a whole lot of sense to leave the stairs carpeted so we decided to update then into a wooden staircase instead. We tore out all the carpet and installed wood flooring upstairs.

If you have existing hardwoods underneath be careful when cutting the carpet. Sand the wood using multiple grit sandpaper. From carpet to wood directions remove the carpet padding and tack strips from the stairs and throw away. It wasn t visible from down stairs it wasn t visible from down stairs.

Something about the beauty of a nicely stained and painted staircase or the satisfaction of ripping the carpet off the stairs. Use pliers to remove all tack strips and staples from the stairs. Our guest today has a lovely hardwood stair remodel to share with us. First prep the stairs by removing the carpet with a utility knife and a pry bar.