Carpeted Stairs With Wood End Caps

Our retro fit stair treads are the easiest way to convert your carpeted stairs into a beautiful new wooden staircase.

Carpeted stairs with wood end caps.

This is our stairs before. The very talented stair guy started on the bottom and worked his way up. The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel. Do you have a staircase that could use some help.

He used mdf for each riser and then solid red oak for each tread. Under 100 carpeted stair to wooden tread makeover diy. Today i want to address my progress with our stairs. We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following.

A long time ago i shared how we ripped the carpet off of our stairs click here to see and then they sat there in a raw wooden state with only primed risers. He basically cut off any overhang of our old treads they were mdf and were covered in carpet. Rubber square nose stair tread rubber stair treads is the perfect complement rubber stair treads is the perfect complement to flooring projects in shopping malls retail settings government centers hospitals and airports. An up close view of the new stair treads waiting to be fitted and installed.

Types of stairs that may benefit from carpeting. Tread unfinished 5 0 out of 5 stars 2 7081 red oak 2 rise left hand gooseneck w cap 6010 wood staircase handrail fitting for stair remodel. There is a type of sort of end cap if it s a half open stair where you could have sort of you cut off the old nosing at the edge of the stair and you put like an end cap so it looks like it s a hardwood floor there. There are a couple basic types of tread and riser caps tread end caps or open tread caps and tread wall caps or closed tread caps.

A retro tread is a stair tread that is slightly thinner than a traditional 1 tread and is designed to cap each existing wood step that is currently under your carpet. Tread wall caps. But you have to have carpet for the rest of it. Tread end caps go on the open side of a stair typically where the balusters will be.

False tread and riser caps are used to give the appearance of solid treads with a carpet runner going up the center of the staircase but without the expense. X 11 5 x 5 8 in. I procrastinated because i didn t know what i wanted and also because i was waiting for a good time to move on to the next step which included being able to open the windows for. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.

Functional builder grade stairs stairs that exist only to move people from point a to point b with zero concern for aesthetics can be improved with carpeting it is difficult to fix unattractive stairs because they do not lend themselves to painting carpet works wonders on stairs like this. Sure new carpet would be great but wow it s not cheap. You ll still need sort of a carpet runner in the middle. Light duty ribbed design black 12 1 4 in.

Contributed by cleverly inspired. My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look.