Ripped Out Carpet Of Stairs And Have Plywood Treads

You know rip up the carpet and have hardwood stairs.

Ripped out carpet of stairs and have plywood treads.

This mama got bored last weekend and decided it was time to tackle a project that has been on my wish list to do list for a long long time. It ended up being the perfect size when i was done and i didn t have to rip anything down. Using a disposable sponge brush lay a think coat of stain down on the tread. And it was quite the project.

Once you have coated the entire tread go back and wipe away the excess stain with a rag. My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look. The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel. Fortunately our treads had a bull nose edge.

But it was rather square. If the tread doesn t have a bull nose edge keep or replace the carpet. This is our stairs before. Since we moved into our house we have wanted to remove the carpet from our stairs and paint them.

Heck you will be finding it everywhere for the weeks to come. I am on a tight budget and want to know if i can just sand these and paint them. I ended up using one stair tread two red oak boards that were 12 or 14 inches wide and a smaller one that was 2 or 3 inches wide. Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.

And it was quite the project. If you prefer you can round over a piece of wood. If you re going to do that measure the tread size cut the tread and then attach it. Attach that piece with construction adhesive and nails as well.

The stain requires 8 hours to set before you move on to the final couple of steps. We had pine so i decided to paint it. The other option is to replace the tread piece entirely with a hardwood border. I need to rip out the unfortunately not so old carpet and do something different.

We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following. A while ago we decided to redo stairs in the main part of the house. Currently we have a stair case that has 2 steps going up then a landing then a left turn to more stairs up to our loft. Replacing stair treads starts with tearing out carpet then staples and then cutting the old bullnoses.

All this is done inside your house so just imagine where all the dust is going to go. We have plain old builder s plywood under the carpet. Refinishing our stairs proved to be an exciting project and i am so excited to share our whole process with you. And also i am not sure what color to go with if i am able.

I would guess around a three foot square. We have an old electric mouse sander which when equipped with coarse 60 grit sandpaper did a decent job sanding the stair treads and hardwood landings down to bare wood. Minwax stain quart 7 77. Four disposable brush sponges 3 92.

Well to be perfectly honest remove the carpet from our entire house. I cannot stress this enough. So here are the stairs with the carpet removed and stapled holes filled. My hand me down sander had a somewhat effective dust catcher and i followed behind it with our hepa filter vacuum and positioned a box fan in the doorway pointing outside.