Carpet To Pine Stairs

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Carpet to pine stairs.

It was the same as the new living room floor. Under 100 carpeted stair to wooden tread makeover diy. March 17 2017 at 9 30 am. We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following.

The main problem is that pine tends to soak up stain unevenly resulting in a blotchy unnatural appearance. Stairs are the most common place in the home to have carpet and yet they are also the trickiest. Once the carpet is gone you ll pay 100 to 200 per step. To get the wood ready for staining you need to hand sand each tread thoroughly.

Roll a pencil up into a piece of fine grain sandpaper and hand sand all of the corners and edges. The stair carpet was crappy to say the least and i really wanted my staircase to be amazing. This is because in addition to having to decide on carpet style and color the carpet has to be of appropriate durability and thickness to be installed on the stair. For 10 to 12 steps this costs 1 080 to 2 700 including carpet removal.

My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look. This is our stairs before. And carpet on stairs gets so many stains and wears out so quickly. The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel.

Contributed by cleverly inspired. See more ideas about stair runner carpet stair runner carpet stairs. Replace carpeted stairs with wood cost. The most important part of how to refinish stairs that were carpeted is as always cleaning the stairs thoroughly before applying any product.

To finish pine stair treads attach a medium grade disc to a power sander and sand the treads. Sure new carpet would be great but wow it s not cheap. To me the most important little tool is the tack cloth because even after vacuuming and cleaning the stairs i still got a huge amount of lint on the cloth. Then replace the medium grade disc with a fine grade disc and sand them again.

Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and. It s possible to stain pine stair treads but it takes more prep work to get good results with pine than it does with harder woods. I built the first edge of the landing with pine wood cut the shape with a nose and the same width as the flooring for the landing. A carpenter might not tackle this part of the job but you can hire a handyman for 60 to 65 an hour.