Plywood Stairs To Hardwood

Smith stair systems 11 5 in x 48 in unfinished red oak stair tread.

Plywood stairs to hardwood.

Perhaps you just removed your old carpeting in the hopes of finding vintage restorable hardwood only to reveal a plywood subfloor instead. Learn how to rip up that carpet on your stairs and reveal or create the beautiful hardwood that s been hiding underneath. Plywood thickness for stair treads as mentioned above you can create stair treads out of a variety of materials including stainless steel wood granite marble quartz glass and so on. For pricing and availability.

When he installed the new bottom two stairs he also routed the front edges of the 2 12 on the top and bottom so that the nose of the stair tread had a more pleasing and looked more finished and less like a 2 12. House of forgings stair treads 72 in x 11 5 in red oak unfinished red oak stair tread. If you re interested in a cost friendly yet reliable option plywood treads are definitely the way to go. Here i instal our hardwood stairs using my homemade nose treading from part 1 out of same wood for the floor.

This takes about 11 feet of floor space. For the actual structure of the bottom stairs we reused any 2 4 s and 2 6 s that we already head. In order to install the hardwoods measure the stairs to get the cut lengths together. 36 x 10 1 2 unfinished oak interior stair tread and 42 x 10 1 2 unfinished oak interior stair tread are the two sizes the kits come in so we ordered seven of the 36 inch and six of the 42 inch after measuring both sets of stairs and determining the crazy size differences.

Expanding the bottom stair. A solution for situations like this is to sand the plywood and paint it to look like hardwood. So it s certainly possible to do the work yourself just make sure you don t need the stairs for awhile 0. Cut riser pieces use a table saw and start cutting the riser pieces to the correct size.