Installing Hardwood Stairs After Carpet

Start installation from the bottom and move up.

Installing hardwood stairs after carpet. Here is diy how to prepare stair bullnose for hardwood or laminate floor installation. Measure cut and install stair. Installing plank on carpeted stairs five page series. Removing carpet carpet pad and all staples left.

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. You can only use this method if your stairs have no nosing a section of the tread that protrudes beyond the riser. After removing the carpet dispose of the carpet pad. 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.

Before start on installation of hardwood the stairs should be properly prepared. After cutting a strip of carpet the width of the stairs you start at the bottom and work upward. Cutting rough framing stair nosing. How to convert carpeted stairs to hardwood.

Use pliers and a pry bar to pull up any nails tacks and tack strips. Screwing rough framing top boards to stair stringers. If you know what a stair runner is it s much like this a continuous strip of carpet. If you decided to lay your carpet before installing the baseboard around the bottom of your walls in your home you actually have a somewhat.

1 rip a strip of scrap wood 1 1 8 inches wide on a table saw. To properly install one there should be a gap of a little more than one inch between the hardwood and the carpet. Here was my situation. The rest of the steps had a 7 5 rise.

As a result after removing the carpet the bottom step had a 7 rise and the top step had a 8 5 rise. In order to install the hardwoods measure the stairs to get the cut lengths together.