Install Laminate Around Stairs

If you want to install laminate flooring on your stairs i would recommend that you do a lot of research and find the information you will need to do it correctly.

Install laminate around stairs.

Installing laminate flooring on stairs can be tedious and time consuming and is a lot different than installing laminate flooring on a floor. Having put a laminate floor on your curved stairs it is time to fix the area adjacent to the floor. Cut and install the 90 degree corner trim on the edge of the step for a finished look locking it into the groove of the laminate pieces around the spindle. 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.

How to install molding around an attic stair s entrance laminate flooring floats over the subfloor and although you need to hold it down with baseboards it s stable over a large area such as a. Once this is done measure and cut out your pieces of laminate to make tread pieces riser pieces and stair nosing. Attach the stair nose to the ends of your stairs to cover nails. 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.

Laminated flooring is slick and tough enough to create a smooth surface that lasts for years. Problem is nobody is going to get that laminate cut that perfect around the spindle. The installation of laminated treads and risers is. For this place a box on the corner of your stairs and cut the box accordingly providing for the curve.

The risers go on next. Step 5 remove the boards and apply a coat of laminate flooring adhesive to the back of each piece with a notch edged trowel. As a money saver you can lay the right over your existing stairs if they aren t nosed. Alternatively you could cover the overhang with plywood to make it level.

It is probably the same cost or maybe even less as laminate trim caps are expensive to just put down hardwood treads. The you are trapping laminate that needs to move.