This takes about 11 feet of floor space.
Plywood stairs to hardwood.
My stairs go up about 10 feet the rise is about 7 1 2 inches and the stair is about 10 inches deep.
Or maybe you d like to convert an attic space and don t quite have the budget this year for hardwood flooring.
For pricing and availability.
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.
House of forgings stair treads 72 in x 11 5 in red oak unfinished red oak stair tread.
A solution for situations like this is to sand the plywood and paint it to look like hardwood.
Smith stair systems 11 5 in x 48 in unfinished red oak stair tread.
If you re interested in a cost friendly yet reliable option plywood treads are definitely the way to go.
Now while this project still endured a total diy theme the.
Here i instal our hardwood stairs using my homemade nose treading from part 1 out of same wood for the floor.
So it s certainly possible to do the work yourself just make sure you don t need the stairs for awhile 0.
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.
Expanding the bottom stair.
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.
Perhaps you just removed your old carpeting in the hopes of finding vintage restorable hardwood only to reveal a plywood subfloor instead.
In order to install the hardwoods measure the stairs to get the cut lengths together.