Cosmetic surgery for a stairs
 

Hi All,

We are looking to give a stairs a facelift. We have a stairs that was
covered by soiled carpet that runs from the back of our Kitchen down a
narrow hall to the back garden. Its the only part of our massonette
that's covered by carpet and we had hoped for a wooded stairs
underneath that we could sand. However after removing the carpet we
discovered a hodge podge of cracked wooden steps and a few concrete
steps near the bottom. Also the risers aren't in great shape. It
looks like any spare bits of wood was used to create the risers, and in
places they have rectangular pieces of laminate tiles stuck to them
which the tackless strips where glued or nailed to.

Anyway in its current state we can't sand and refurbish the stairs, we
dont want to install a new stairs and we would prefer not to re-carpet
it. So is there anything that we could stick over the current wooden
and concert steps and Risers that would give it a face lift other that
carpet.

A

Cosmetic surgery for a stairs
 

ado wrote:
Hi All,

We are looking to give a stairs a facelift. We have a stairs that was
covered by soiled carpet that runs from the back of our Kitchen down a
narrow hall to the back garden. Its the only part of our massonette
that's covered by carpet and we had hoped for a wooded stairs
underneath that we could sand. However after removing the carpet we
discovered a hodge podge of cracked wooden steps and a few concrete
steps near the bottom. Also the risers aren't in great shape. It
looks like any spare bits of wood was used to create the risers, and in
places they have rectangular pieces of laminate tiles stuck to them
which the tackless strips where glued or nailed to.

Anyway in its current state we can't sand and refurbish the stairs, we
dont want to install a new stairs and we would prefer not to re-carpet
it. So is there anything that we could stick over the current wooden
and concert steps and Risers that would give it a face lift other that
carpet.


"veneer" it with real wood or laminate or whatever.

Cosmetic surgery for a stairs
 

ado wrote:
Hi All,

We are looking to give a stairs a facelift. We have a stairs that was
covered by soiled carpet that runs from the back of our Kitchen down a
narrow hall to the back garden. Its the only part of our massonette
that's covered by carpet and we had hoped for a wooded stairs
underneath that we could sand. However after removing the carpet we
discovered a hodge podge of cracked wooden steps and a few concrete
steps near the bottom. Also the risers aren't in great shape. It
looks like any spare bits of wood was used to create the risers, and in
places they have rectangular pieces of laminate tiles stuck to them
which the tackless strips where glued or nailed to.

Anyway in its current state we can't sand and refurbish the stairs, we
dont want to install a new stairs and we would prefer not to re-carpet
it. So is there anything that we could stick over the current wooden
and concert steps and Risers that would give it a face lift other that
carpet.

A

I guess you could cover everything with thin plywood, and varnish it
with a flooring grade nonslip varnish. As long as its done neatly you
then get neat wood stairs.

Another option is to just use very thin wood on the non-wood bits then
stain everything black, this should hide the differences between the
wood types, if you like black wood. This might also work with other
strong stain colours like red - but I've not tried that.


NT

Cosmetic surgery for a stairs
 

It's very difficult to clad a poor condition staircase with timber and
get visually good results - even for a professional joiner. I'd suggest
a combination of plywood cladding to get all the treads perfectly level
and stiff underfoot, and an equal rise between them, and the same for
the risers. Then something like a hessian carpet professionaly fitted
to hide the cosmetic discontinuities.

Cosmetic surgery for a stairs
 

"ado" wrote in message
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Hi All,

We are looking to give a stairs a facelift. We have a stairs that was
covered by soiled carpet that runs from the back of our Kitchen down a
narrow hall to the back garden. Its the only part of our massonette
that's covered by carpet and we had hoped for a wooded stairs
underneath that we could sand. However after removing the carpet we
discovered a hodge podge of cracked wooden steps and a few concrete
steps near the bottom. Also the risers aren't in great shape. It
looks like any spare bits of wood was used to create the risers, and in
places they have rectangular pieces of laminate tiles stuck to them
which the tackless strips where glued or nailed to.

Anyway in its current state we can't sand and refurbish the stairs, we
dont want to install a new stairs and we would prefer not to re-carpet
it. So is there anything that we could stick over the current wooden
and concert steps and Risers that would give it a face lift other that
carpet.

If you pop into the Geant hypermarket in Beziers, they have exactly what you
are looking for on one of the temporary displays in the main entrance area -
a commercial product designed to cover old stairs, available in a variety of
finishes. Unfortunately, I didn't take a note of the company, as it was not
of interest to me at the time.

Colin Bignell

Cosmetic surgery for a stairs
 

If you pop into the Geant hypermarket in Beziers, they have exactly what you
are looking for on one of the temporary displays in the main entrance area -
a commercial product designed to cover old stairs, available in a variety of
finishes. Unfortunately, I didn't take a note of the company, as it was not
of interest to me at the time.

If it's that cladding system you see around markets in France, run away.

Cosmetic surgery for a stairs
 

just install new steps over the tops of the old ones.

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ado wrote:
Hi All,

We are looking to give a stairs a facelift. We have a stairs that was
covered by soiled carpet that runs from the back of our Kitchen down a
narrow hall to the back garden. Its the only part of our massonette
that's covered by carpet and we had hoped for a wooded stairs
underneath that we could sand. However after removing the carpet we
discovered a hodge podge of cracked wooden steps and a few concrete
steps near the bottom. Also the risers aren't in great shape. It
looks like any spare bits of wood was used to create the risers, and in
places they have rectangular pieces of laminate tiles stuck to them
which the tackless strips where glued or nailed to.

Anyway in its current state we can't sand and refurbish the stairs, we
dont want to install a new stairs and we would prefer not to re-carpet
it. So is there anything that we could stick over the current wooden
and concert steps and Risers that would give it a face lift other that
carpet.

A

Cosmetic surgery for a stairs
 

ado wrote:
Hi All,

We are looking to give a stairs a facelift. We have a stairs that was
covered by soiled carpet that runs from the back of our Kitchen down a
narrow hall to the back garden. Its the only part of our massonette
that's covered by carpet and we had hoped for a wooded stairs
underneath that we could sand. However after removing the carpet we
discovered a hodge podge of cracked wooden steps and a few concrete
steps near the bottom. Also the risers aren't in great shape. It
looks like any spare bits of wood was used to create the risers, and in
places they have rectangular pieces of laminate tiles stuck to them
which the tackless strips where glued or nailed to.

Anyway in its current state we can't sand and refurbish the stairs, we
dont want to install a new stairs and we would prefer not to re-carpet
it. So is there anything that we could stick over the current wooden
and concert steps and Risers that would give it a face lift other that
carpet.

A

'Floor' paint?