Stain and clear coat your stairs to give them long lasting appeal.
Hardwood stairs with carpet at top.
In addition should a fall ever occur carpet offers a much softer landing spot than wood flooring which could help reduce the likelihood of injury.
Carpets provide safety for stairs.
Remove carpet from stairs.
Having carpet on the stairs doesn t necessarily prevent falls but it helps to provide traction compared to hardwood.
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Once it dries apply two coats of clear coat.
Here was my situation.
Follow the instructions on dry time.
The rest of the steps had a 7 5 rise.
Types of stairs that may benefit from carpeting.
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Installation and materials can range as low as 1 000 and as high as 30 000 price depends on several factors.
Even if you prefer hard surfaces such as hardwood or laminate carpet on the stairs is still a good idea even if it is in the form of a runner on the stairs having carpet on the stairs is infinitely safer than having the stairs covered with hard surface flooring.
Stain staircase and banister.
If there were existing hardwoods underneath the carpet sand them before re staining.
Hardwood stairs average 100 to 200 per step including labor a flight of stairs is 10 to 12 steps and would cost 1 000 to 2 400.
As a result after removing the carpet the bottom step had a 7 rise and the top step had a 8 5 rise.
Functional builder grade stairs stairs that exist only to move people from point a to point b with zero concern for aesthetics can be improved with carpeting it is difficult to fix unattractive stairs because they do not lend themselves to painting carpet works wonders on stairs like this.
Use a foam brush to apply the stain and wipe with a lint free cloth.