Attach that piece with construction adhesive and nails as well.
Ripped out carpet of stairs and have plywood treads.
Fortunately our treads had a bull nose edge.
A while ago we decided to redo stairs in the main part of the house.
Most people advised against staining unless you had good quality wood.
But it was rather square.
If you prefer you can round over a piece of wood.
The other option is to replace the tread piece entirely with a hardwood border.
If the tread doesn t have a bull nose edge keep or replace the carpet.
And also i am not sure what color to go with if i am able.
This is our stairs before.
And it was quite the project.
My hand me down sander had a somewhat effective dust catcher and i followed behind it with our hepa filter vacuum and positioned a box fan in the doorway pointing outside.
Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house.
I ended up using one stair tread two red oak boards that were 12 or 14 inches wide and a smaller one that was 2 or 3 inches wide.
My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look.
And it was quite the project.
We have an old electric mouse sander which when equipped with coarse 60 grit sandpaper did a decent job sanding the stair treads and hardwood landings down to bare wood.
On your picture frames across the floor.
You know rip up the carpet and have hardwood stairs.
Using a disposable sponge brush lay a think coat of stain down on the tread.
I need to rip out the unfortunately not so old carpet and do something different.
We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following.
We have plain old builder s plywood under the carpet.
We had pine so i decided to paint it.
This mama got bored last weekend and decided it was time to tackle a project that has been on my wish list to do list for a long long time.
Minwax stain quart 7 77.
So here are the stairs with the carpet removed and stapled holes filled.
Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.
Currently we have a stair case that has 2 steps going up then a landing then a left turn to more stairs up to our loft.
It ended up being the perfect size when i was done and i didn t have to rip anything down.
I cannot stress this enough.
I would guess around a three foot square.
Once you have coated the entire tread go back and wipe away the excess stain with a rag.
The stain requires 8 hours to set before you move on to the final couple of steps.
In this video we re using a tread that already has a rounded front.
Four disposable brush sponges 3 92.
Heck you will be finding it everywhere for the weeks to come.
I am on a tight budget and want to know if i can just sand these and paint them.
All this is done inside your house so just imagine where all the dust is going to go.
The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel.
Replacing stair treads starts with tearing out carpet then staples and then cutting the old bullnoses.
