Laminate To Carpet Stair Transition

The risers go on next.
Laminate to carpet stair transition. Hey all we want to have a carpet stairs leading to a semi solid engineered plank wood landing. If there is carpet on the riser it will be difficult to make it look good when you try to cover that exposed sub floor. Laminate on stairs is not as ideal as you think. Floating floors transitions and trim complement the flooring and provide a safe durable way to create expansion contraction space between areas and lead to other existing floors in the home.
It seems the norm is wood to carpet. The durable finish coordinates with our real wood floors. Step 1 examine the carpeted steps. Transition from carpet to another material.
Oak harvest 3 8 in. The carpeting should reach. When homeowners have carpeted stairs and laminate flooring extra care must be taken to transition the two flooring types. Most often the top stair will involve installing a stair nose.
Or you can have laminate on the stairs and need to finish the carpet up to the top stair of laminate. 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. Do we have the wood floor on the very top stair on the landing which will be be higher than the rest of the stairs o. Like icing on a cake transitions are typically the last materials to complete the floating floor project.
People often ask me how to connect hardwood or laminate floor with staircase installation i always prefer start wood flooring installation from stairs but e. One more suggestion never put laminate on your stairs. So just trust me and cut it off. Use with these millstead floors.
Just buy real wood treads and install those. The stair noses are spendy and they are. Most of the stairs have an overhang that may need to be cut off. This stair nose molding provides a finished look this stair nose molding provides a finished look by completing the change from wood flooring to a top stair step.
What is the best way to achieve the transition. The new stair nose cannot be installed with an overhang. 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. Installing a laminate stair nosing over the top step of the carpeted stairs will tie the stairs into the laminate flooring and make the transition look seamless.