Installing Hardwood Stairs After Carpet

Use pliers and a pry bar to pull up any nails tacks and tack strips.

Installing hardwood stairs after carpet.

Screwing rough framing top boards to stair stringers. Start installation from the bottom and move up. You can only use this method if your stairs have no nosing a section of the tread that protrudes beyond the riser. How to convert carpeted stairs to hardwood.

As a result after removing the carpet the bottom step had a 7 rise and the top step had a 8 5 rise. 1 rip a strip of scrap wood 1 1 8 inches wide on a table saw. Cutting rough framing stair nosing. To properly install one there should be a gap of a little more than one inch between the hardwood and the carpet.

Shown and discussed in this five page series is a collaboration of how an engineered plank was installed on a roughed framed wood substrate or the actual surface once the carpet and padding is removed. It s easy you can do it your. The previous owner had installed tile near the doorway entry bottom of the stairs and 3 4 thick hardwood in the passageway at the top of the stairs. In order to install the hardwoods measure the stairs to get the cut lengths together.

Here is diy how to prepare stair bullnose for hardwood or laminate floor installation. What you should do after carpet removal. The rest of the steps had a 7 5 rise. Before start on installation of hardwood the stairs should be properly prepared.

Measure cut and install stair. How to install new base trim over an existing carpet. After cutting a strip of carpet the width of the stairs you start at the bottom and work upward. Removing carpet carpet pad and all staples left.

Installing plank on carpeted stairs five page series. Here was my situation.