Carpet To Pine Stairs

It was the same as the new living room floor.

Carpet to pine stairs.

Contributed by cleverly inspired. The main problem is that pine tends to soak up stain unevenly resulting in a blotchy unnatural appearance. The stair carpet was crappy to say the least and i really wanted my staircase to be amazing. To start removing carpet costs 75 to 300.

Sure new carpet would be great but wow it s not cheap. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and. The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel. See more ideas about stair runner carpet stair runner carpet stairs.

Stairs are the most common place in the home to have carpet and yet they are also the trickiest. And carpet on stairs gets so many stains and wears out so quickly. Replace carpeted stairs with wood cost. Under 100 carpeted stair to wooden tread makeover diy.

Do you have a staircase that could use some help. The most important part of how to refinish stairs that were carpeted is as always cleaning the stairs thoroughly before applying any product. 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. Then replace the medium grade disc with a fine grade disc and sand them again.

This is our stairs before. Once the carpet is gone you ll pay 100 to 200 per step. A carpenter might not tackle this part of the job but you can hire a handyman for 60 to 65 an hour. 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.

To get the wood ready for staining you need to hand sand each tread thoroughly. We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following. 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. 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.

My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look. Roll a pencil up into a piece of fine grain sandpaper and hand sand all of the corners and edges. For 10 to 12 steps this costs 1 080 to 2 700 including carpet removal. March 17 2017 at 9 30 am.