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Diy carpet and wood stairs.
Sure new carpet would be great but wow it s not cheap.
Then i promptly started cursing the previous owners for letting the builder cover these beautiful solid wood stairs with carpet but i digress.
But under the carpet was raw jagged uneven wood.
Consider that you ve got both padding and carpet working for the cause and you ll realize that bare wooden stairs can in no way match the quiet that carpet offers.
The stairs in our home were ancient and had a smell to them.
Transforming your stairs from carpet to wood treads will be a project to be proud of and you ll be so glad you did.
Carpet to wood stairs.
Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.
Here was my situation.
As a result after removing the carpet the bottom step had a 7 rise and the top step had a 8 5 rise.
A step by step diy tutorial on how to remodel stairs from carpet to wood give your staircase a makeover by refinishing them.
Carpet is great at blunting or even completely eliminating the sound of people walking on wooden stairs.
These will grip the carpet backing and hold it in place.
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.
The carpeted stairs had to go.
The rest of the steps had a 7 5 rise.
To my pleasant surprise when i pulled back the carpet i discovered we actually had solid bull nosed stair treads underneath all that ugly velcro y carpet.
This is our stairs before.
The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel.
It was bad we decided to rip out the old carpet and see what we had to work with underneath.
60 carpet to hardwood stair remodel.
We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following.
One thing it doesn t fix though.
Maybe we could refinish the stairs.
It could not be s.
Stair stairway makeover remodel.
Prepare your stairs for carpet installation by installing tack strips thin pieces of wood resembling yardsticks with tacks pointing upward.