Here is a quick step by step guide on how to transition hardwood steps into carpet.
Top of stairs transition.
One challenge our customers face during a stair installation is how to use a landing tread to transition into carpet at the top of the staircase.
At the top of the stairs nose molding will cover the seam similarly if the vinyl flooring ends at the stair edge.
Or you can have laminate on the stairs and need to finish the carpet up to the top stair of laminate.
The international building code specifies a maximum riser height of 7 inches so a single laminate plank usually suffices but you may prefer to use pine poplar or some other stainable wood instead.
Hey all we want to have a carpet stairs leading to a semi solid engineered plank wood landing.
The challenge is how to transition from the top step of the wood staircase to the landing.
The new stair nose cannot be installed with an overhang.
The challenge i have is how to finish the laminate at the top of the two staircases.
The riser must come flush with the surface of the tread and the stair nose which goes on last curls around the top of the riser and either fits flush against the laminate.
Most of the stairs have an overhang that may need to be cut off.
Do we have the wood floor on the very top stair on the landing which will be be higher than the rest of the stairs o.
How to stain a door s transition strip pocket door lock installation the top piece on stair nose is nothing more than a small strip of wood that is used when hardwood flooring is installed on the.
4 test fit the transition trim placing it along the seam and gently stepping on.
Or the space beneath the hang can be filled in with wood.
Rather than install 2000 of new carpet our idea is to install something more durable indestructible such as resilient vinyl plank flooring allure brand from home depot everywhere but the stairs which we were planning on painting.
I don t plan to take the laminate down the staircases but the stair bullnose that is sold for this flooring swiftlock doesn t have the heft of the existing stairnose that is there.
What is the best way to achieve the transition.
I m laying some 8mm laminate flooring in the 2ncd floor of a 100 year old house.
Most often the top stair will involve installing a stair nose.