**No longer needed**Anyone know a good laminate installer in Sacramento? Stairs, specifically **No longer needed**

[Kelvrick]

The flooring in the new place is a pigsty and everywhere that isn't vinyl needs to go. That is about 2500 sq/ft of soiled carpet. I'm doing laminate in most of it and tiling the master bath, but I know I can't do a good job on the stairs, so I'm looking for someone good.

Also thinking about radiant heating in the master bath for the tile in the winter time. Anyone have any resources aside from home depot/lowes?

Here are some pictures of the stairs to give you an idea of what it is.

http://www.kelvrick.com/stairs1.jpg
http://www.kelvrick.com/stairs2.jpg
http://www.kelvrick.com/stairs3.jpg

EDIT: The flooring store ended up discounting the materials so much it made the install from them pretty much free, so I went ahead and just did everything through them.

 

[vi edit]

Why not just go for a solid hardwood tread for the stairs and then stain it to closely match the rest of the flooring?

 

[Kelvrick]

I don't know why. This is the first I've heard of hardwood tread.

After slight googling, I probably don't have the skills to get the finished look that I want. But will continue to think about it, maybe have a carpenter do it.

 

[ballmode]

I know some people in Sacramento where they could remove mice from A/C's though

 

[dquan97]

YGPM

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
I don't know why. This is the first I've heard of hardwood tread.

After slight googling, I probably don't have the skills to get the finished look that I want. But will continue to think about it, maybe have a carpenter do it.

It looks like you already have hardwood treads - at least under the bottom half of the stairs, it's just covered by a carpet runner. When you tear that carpet out you may be able to just sand and re-stain (or rather, have someone else do it). The top part of the stairs where the carpeting goes all the way to the edges may have pine underneath. You could rip those treads out and replace them with whatever hardwood was used for the lower treads (probably oak).

Personally, I'd probably re-carpet the upstairs and just replace the runner with a new one. Why do you want laminate upstairs?

 

[Drako]

In my opinion it's probably best not to do a laminate on stairs, as you are going to have to put a bullnose peice at the front of the tread. This can be hazardous to those us that are slightly clumsy. Your best bet is to go with a hardwood, as someone above mentioned.

 

[Kelvrick]

Thanks for the responses everyone.

I'm ripping carpet out of the whole house this weekend, so we'll see what I find under there. I don't think there is tread under any part of the stairs though, the carpet is pretty much on level with the bannister portion, but who knows.

Yea, I know about the bullnose piece. I'll have to see what the flooring stores can give me that will match the laminate we're using before making the choice.