Plywood Stairs Under Carpet

How to pull up carpet and paint the plywood floor.

Plywood stairs under carpet. Carpet seems to be making its way out the door and. Painted stairs for under 50. It can also be used under hardwood laminate and carpet but this is much less common these days because subflooring is typically smooth enough for these materials many of which are installed with a different type of underlayment or pad. Plywood underlayment is a thin plywood material that is most commonly used under resilient flooring materials such as vinyl and linoleum sheets and tiles.

The staircase is the first thing you see when you enter our house and when we moved in two years ago it was carpeted in a builder basic carpet that wasn t white or tan or gray. Now while this project still endured a total diy theme the. A time eventually comes when another cleaning won t salvage the carpet and you have to take it up. The best way i can describe it is skinned muppets.

We cut our own out of thin plywood and that only cost about 20. That leaves you with a bare subfloor and a. 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. They are in decent shape but it is costly to recover with hardwood.

Plywood stair treads can be found in basements garages outbuildings and some porches. Under the carpet we discovered plywood with bullnose.