Plywood Stairs To Hardwood

A solution for situations like this is to sand the plywood and paint it to look like hardwood.

Plywood stairs to hardwood.

House of forgings stair treads 72 in x 11 5 in red oak unfinished red oak stair tread. My stairs go up about 10 feet the rise is about 7 1 2 inches and the stair is about 10 inches deep. So it s certainly possible to do the work yourself just make sure you don t need the stairs for awhile 0. 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. Or maybe you d like to convert an attic space and don t quite have the budget this year for hardwood flooring. This takes about 11 feet of floor space. Expanding the bottom stair.

Now while this project still endured a total diy theme the. Smith stair systems 11 5 in x 48 in unfinished red oak stair tread. For the actual structure of the bottom stairs we reused any 2 4 s and 2 6 s that we already head. Cut riser pieces use a table saw and start cutting the riser pieces to the correct size.

If you re interested in a cost friendly yet reliable option plywood treads are definitely the way to go. 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. Here i instal our hardwood stairs using my homemade nose treading from part 1 out of same wood for the floor. In order to install the hardwoods measure the stairs to get the cut lengths together.