Laminated plank flooring on stairs?
My wife got the idea to replace the carpet in the family room with plank flooring. This is the prefinished stuff with a thin layer of real wood on top of 1/2″ ply, T&G, 5″ x 36″ pieces. Ok, fine. I can do the main area no sweat. What I’m scratching my head over is how to do the steps. As you enter the room, there’s a landing and then a single step, and then you step down onto the main floor. It’s all just construction plywood and 2×4 as it was designed to be covered by carpet. The top of the landing and the one step have 3/4 x 1 1/2″ strips on the front edges. It’s all kinda ugly.
I’d like to run the flooring on the tops of the landing and step, but am really puzzled how to treat the front edges. As far as the risers go, I can probably glue on some luan or something and paint it trim color.
Any ideas?
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the manufacturer probably makes a landing tread that goes with your product....
That would be the ideal, but these are from China bought at HD. There aren't any other accessories.
I think I'll just cut a stair nose out of some similar wood, like a 1 1/2" half round, and find some stain and varnish to match, cut a groove on it and glue it good to the front of the step.
that'll teach you to buy from HD ;-)
you might check.....the Pergo premade pieces may work...
Check with a dedicated floor store in town. They probably have several stair nosings to choose from, with a groove already cut in the back.
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