Laminate Flooring Around Stairs

Thick x 2 1 8 in.

Laminate flooring around stairs. Wide x 94 in. That isn t true on stairs. Laminate flooring is an affordable staircase flooring option if you want a wooden look. 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 living room and it won t move.

Stair treads are 11 inches deep but a laminate plank is usually only about 7 inches wide so you need to fit two planks together which means creating a seam in the middle of the tread. It s a perfect choice for stairs as the installation is easy. Stairs are one of the largest surfaces in your home and choosing what material to cover them with has a big effect on the look and feel of your space. You may want to avoid this and if so you can buy one piece laminate stair treads from most laminate dealers.

The major issue with installing laminate flooring on stairs is durability stairs tend to get more wear and tear than most other surfaces in your home. After this place the box on your laminate board and make a neat cut using your jigsaw. Laminate flooring is an economical way to get the look of genuine hardwood at a much lower cost. Length laminate stair nose molding 32 98.

Having put a laminate floor on your curved stairs it is time to fix the area adjacent to the floor. Laminate flooring can be cut to install around stair rail spindles. For this place a box on the corner of your stairs and cut the box accordingly providing for the curve. Thick 49 98.

Fixing it to the stairs is also easy with the use of a special adhesive and it provides comfort on the foot. Laminate flooring can be installed on stairs or anywhere else that you would install hardwood flooring. Zamma winterton oak sanibel driftwood 3 4 in. Around the stairs i profile it around the stairs with 1mm 2mm gap which carpet on stairs covers.

If you don t have carpet on the stairs fill it with filler. Cap a tread vintage pewter oak 47 in. The flooring manufactures say 10mm 12mm gap to cover themselves i think incase something does expand.