A stair runner is ideal for adding extra color plus decoration to your stairs without completely covering them with carpet. Stair runners mostly run up the center of the stairs. They are often a foot wide or extend out virtually to the ends of every stair. Putting in a stair runner follows the same procedure as installing carpet to a floor except stairways have angles, plus floors usually do not.
Measure the width of the back of every tread and additionally the width of every riser. (They are meant to be the same.) Purchase a runner the length of the measurement minus any area you need on either side. Buy carpet runners here.
Cut pieces of tackless strip equal to the measurements of the carpet minus two inches. The tackless strip can be purchased at any home store. Attach a piece of tackless strip to the back of each stair tread. Place the strip centered on each tread with the tacks facing the riser. Stay one inch between the strip and the back of the tread. Hammer the tackless strips to the staircase. Place a piece of tackless strip in the center on each riser with the tacks facing toward the tread. Keep a 1-in. gap between the strip and the overall bottom of the riser. Hammer the tackless strips to the staircase.
Cut pieces of carpet pad to size. The pad needs to be the same width as the tackless strip. Each piece must butt up against the tackless strip on the back of a tread, wrap around the nose of the tread plus extend to the edge of the tackless strip in the riser. Hammer a nail into each back corner and each six inches down plus over the riser. Install the stair carpet runner starting at the very op of the stairs. Begin [under the nose of the staircase landing. Tuck the end of the carpet beneath the nose and secure it using carpet tacks–one at every corner and each 4 inches. Smooth the carpet flat as you go, rounding the nose of the tread and laying the carpet flat to the riser. Push the carpet firmly to the tackless strips in the corner. Hammer it in with a chisel. Continue laying out plus securing the carpet over the treads and down the risers until you arrive at the bottom of the staircase. Tuck the very bottom edge of the runner carpet up underneath the flange at the underside riser plus secure it using carpet tacks.
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This post was written by admin on June 1, 2010
