Ideas what to do with staircase steps?

[nightrider1470]

I have took the old carpet up and used paint stripper to get most of the paint up.



Should I heavily sand and paint?, Or can you buy some type of wood cover to stick down over the steps? For a better finish.

I plan to paint the underneath part white seen here, but it looks like a cheap type of wood and not sure about it giving a good finish as pulling the staples out has left some splits.



Any advice is appreciated!!..... I plan to pay someone to install new posts and spindles once done

 

[rexehuk]

Clad.

 

[Hedge]

What Paint stripper did you use?

Starchem Synstrip is best stuff if you want to get the remaining paint off.

Also invest in one of these scrapers https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bahco-650-...&qid=1483872888&sr=8-3&keywords=bahco+scraper

I cant believe how much easier they make things!

id probably scrape off the rest of the paint, sand up and then maybe varnish em.

 

[Lumeycom]

Clad.

This.

 

[rexehuk]

This.

I actually only replied because I laughed when I saw the post.

Quite literally had been watching youtube videos all morning of various cladding systems.

Not sure if it'll be cheaper (pretty sure it will be), but quite fancy buying the oak myself and cutting it to measure and fitting.

The cladding systems I've looked at range from ~£500 up to thousands, which seem a bit excessive for what is essentially 12/13 cut pieces of wood.

Only downside is... I have 2 staircases

Be very interested to see what you do OP, keep us updated with photos!

 

[Maccapacca]

Carpet. Looks like a load of work for standard pine. Are the treads hardwood?

Probably only £1200 to buy a new hardwood staircase

 

[Hedge]

Ebay sells solid oak cladding at a fair price.

 

[Quartz]

What's the budget?

 

[SPG]

Carpet.

Or a new staircase.

 

[the_r_sole]

Paint the edges and then get a runner down the middle

 

[WillyNelson]

Paint the edges and then get a runner down the middle

Exactly what I was going to say. Did this to our staircase last year, which before looked exactly like the OP. I scraped/heatgunned the old paint off, sanded and repainted a 120mm border down each side.

We had the runner made (cut from normal carpet to match the landing & edges bound). It's actually a grey & off-white stripe, not the brown it looks in the pic.

 

[widdyst]

CLAD

https://www.blueprintjoinery.com/stair-cladding/basics-cladding/

I used this on mine. Looks AWESOME Really easy to fit and the finish once oiled is awesome.
I would definitely do it this way again if I had to do another staircase. Obviously depends on your budget but I am so glad I upped my budget to accommodate this.

 

[rexehuk]

CLAD

https://www.blueprintjoinery.com/stair-cladding/basics-cladding/

I used this on mine. Looks AWESOME Really easy to fit and the finish once oiled is awesome.
I would definitely do it this way again if I had to do another staircase. Obviously depends on your budget but I am so glad I upped my budget to accommodate this.

How much it set you back, and any pictures?

 

[widdyst]

I will stick some pictures up later. Set me back about 500 for the stairs and then bought oak handrails etc on top of that

Edit - pics added when it was work in progress

Obviously these are before i added spindles
Fitted it myself too. And it really wasnt difficult but do have a nice chopsaw for good clean cuts

 

[widdyst]

Sorted the pics now

 

[izzop]

Looks very smart!

Just the sort of thing I'll be needing in a few months. Have booked marked, thanks.

 

[Quartz]

That looks very nice.