Replace Carpet On Stairs With Laminate

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Replace carpet on stairs with laminate.

People are stomping up and down your stairs all day long and you might even have a large breed of dog that goes up and down the stairs digging its sharp claws into them. The international building code specifies a maximum riser height of 7 inches so a single laminate plank usually suffices but you may prefer to use pine poplar or some other stainable wood instead. My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look. The first step was obviously removing all the gross carpet and 30 million staples later we were ready to go.

Quality laminate flooring can usually hold up to the damage pretty well. Laminate flooring stairs can be pretty durable. Its pretty easy just make sure to purchase a stair set jig and have a skil s. This is our stairs before.

If you are looking to replace the carpet on your stairs with the look and feel of wood laminate flooring can be an affordable option. There are different ways to attach laminate flooring to stairs depending on what type of laminate flooring you are using. Hi today i show you how to install vinyl or laminate flooring on your staircase. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.

We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following. The riser must come flush with the surface of the tread and the stair nose which goes on last curls around the top of the riser and either fits flush against the laminate. I want to have a stair runner installed professionally but two carpet stores have told me they can not install the runner on the laminate treads because they do not know how the staples will hold or if the stair tread will crack. The risers go on next.

Fortunately it s a diy friendly project thanks to laminate s easy interlocking installation. When you remove. How to change stairs from carpet to laminate. According to floor critics laminate flooring is not real wood but looks and performs like it making it an affordable flooring option as well.