Installing Hardwood Floors On Stairs

Here is a step by step guide on how to complete this project successfully.

Installing hardwood floors on stairs.

Measure the riser on the bottom step. To prepare for the stairs to be finished cut back the lip on the existing treads and thoroughly clean the stairs with a vacuum. Solid treads eliminates the need of attaching a narrow stair nose piece to a step promoting safety and ease of maintenance. Cut the prefinished stair riser to the proper height using a circular saw.

In most home improvement projects the skeleton of your stairs is already built but the surface parts the treads and risers might need replacing. We replaced our floors upstairs with beautiful new hardwoods and that made these stairs look even worse. Watch how to install treads risers and stair nosing on it. A lot goes in to installing hardwood on stairs.

Next use a tape measure image 1 and mark where cuts need to be made on each tread and riser cutting at the marks with a miter saw image 2. Here s our starting point. Installing hardwood flooring on stairs you can face with open sided staircase. It ended up being a little more difficult than normal since we planned on installing hardwood flooring on stairs with an existing nosing but i found an easy solution.