Refinishing Old Wood Stairs

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Learn how to strip and sand your wood floors. I started the bottom step after a half an hour and worked my way back up. Follow the steps below in the order outlines and continue until the staircase remodel is complete. Ready to refinish those tired old stairs.

Marvellous If you do not you will either have to factor in the price of stair treads or you can paint whats already there.

Some of the more penetrating finish types include. Remove any trim work where the risers and treads meet. The Cherry is their worst stain. Nov 7 2013 - How to refinish your stairs.

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Now this cost is if you have wood treads underneath. Beautiful

According to The Spruce website the average cost of stair refinishing will run you 40 75 per stair on average. Staining Adding Polyurethane to our Pine Farmhouse Stairs. Penetrating finishes are often best applied with a cloth or rag. The staircase prep is the exact same way as I mentioned in my last blog post and above with the old carpet removal the filling sanding cleaning and priming but this time you use the conventional wood stain and polyurethane route.

MIGHT want to protect the floors too if youre an impatient messy DIYer. Lastly I taped off the stairs painted the trim SW semi gloss extra white. As weve mentioned refinishing stairs requires a lot of detailed manual work. Water Based Finish httpsamznto34uGe6CStain httpsamznto3a57h9NAngle Sash Brush httpsamznto2VqAK8GOscillating Tool httpsamznto3aajYApOscill.

Staining plywood stairs. Make sure you have rubber gloves on for this step. Sand the treads with 60 grit sand paper with the orbital sander this will take the wood down to the raw finish. Hopefully you get some more advice on this one.

Using a cheap paintbrush spread over the step in a thick layer. Yes this is a pain but its really important for smoothing out imperfections in the wood. This however would leave scuff marks on the riser from shoes etc. Tung is actually a popular finish among woodworking professionals because of the easy application and how it maintains a natural look.

For this reason it is much more expensive to refinish stairs than a floor when you base it on cost per square foot. Linseed Danish and tung. Pull any nails sticking out. Then begin carefully sanding the old finish with 60-grit sandpaper.

If there are just tug em out with needle-nose pliers. A maximum pitch of 42. Protect the walls and floor. Another popular finish for wood stairs is Tung oil- a penetrating finish.

Step 4 tape the risers and sides If you are only staining the stair treads like us you will need to use painters tape to tape off the risers and the side of the staircase so you dont get any stain on them. Q imported from our old site Face Lift Floors. We have a townhouse with plywood construction. Tung oil is also waterproof durable to an extent mold-proof and doesnt go rancid.

Minwax stain is okay. A minimum going tread width of 220mm. However before that you need to cover all the areas you dont want to get the paint on. After lots of vacuuming dusting we stained the stairs Summer Oak by Varathane to match the wide pine floors upstairs oak floors downstairs.

A maximum rise a vertical aspect of each stair of 220mm. These chemicals will not only keep invaders like termites away but kill any pests remaining on the lumbers surface. How to Refinish Stairs Step-by-step with NuStair. Im old and dont tackle these sort of projects anymore QUOTE.

To protect the wood from termites and other insects prime the lumber with a Borax solution. We sanded by hand because we dont own a sander. Consequently it may be difficult to. Otherwise your steps will be blotchy with some stain soaking into bare wood and some stain laying on top of the old finish.

Make sure to get the corners and edges well. For installation instructions and to view our NuStair installation video click here. Check out the video series on Refinishing Wood Stairs. Move down the steps to the bottom and throw away your paintbrush then find something else to do for about 2 hours.

As well as these requirements no opening either in the stair construction or between balusters can be greater than 100mm. It was time-consuming but super cheap. Even though Tung oil would not offer quite the same protection as polyurethane it seeps right through the wood allowing the beauty of your wooden stairs to shine through. Surface wood finishes these types dry on the surface of the wood.

While any existing finish must be removed the shape of the stairs must not be changed so be sure to sand gently and evenly. Work all the way down to the bare wood if youre planning on varnishing but only feather the finish if you want to paint. A minimum 2000mm of clear headroom above the pitch line. It ends up looking pink rather than a dark cherry.

Rebuild any broken stairs or landings. To refinish wood stairs without sanding you need to cover the stair treads with the final touch. Refinishing stairs that were carpeted if the underlying wood is in good shape. We were thinking of sanding both the flat and riser of the stair and possibly staining the flat and painting the riser.

4 Taping the Sides of the Staircase. Prime The Reclaimed Wood With Termite Resistant Solution. Keep sanding with 120 grit then 150 grit and 220 grit. How to Refinish Old Wood Stairs.

Use painters tape andor newspaper to cover the walls where the railings meet the wall so you dont get any stain on the walls. The step-by-step process below outlines the installation of one prefinished tread.