Staircase renovation in Nieuwegein

The treads have gone smooth or the handrail wobbles. Then the staircase usually does not have to come out. When I renovate a staircase, I work on the stairs that are there.

Covering or replacing

There are roughly two routes. With covering, the existing treads get a new layer of wood or carpet, and the stairs stay in place. That means little demolition. With a new staircase, the old one comes out. I cover treads.

What I do on your stairs: cover the treads in wood or carpet, put anti-slip on the treads and fit a new handrail. A completely new staircase is a different job and is not covered here. If you want another technique, ask me. Then you will hear whether I do it.

Covering a staircase in wood or carpet

I have covered stairs in anthracite carpet and in wooden treads. The material depends on what you do with the stairs.

Carpet is softer underfoot and deadens the sound of the stairs. It does wear first at the edge of the tread, and it needs vacuuming. Wood is harder and stays neat longer, but it is slippery, especially in socks. That brings you to anti-slip.

Anti-slip on the treads

On stairs you slip at the edge of the tread, where your foot lands. That is where anti-slip strips belong. In a flat I handed over, the stairs have anti-slip strips. On wooden stairs I recommend anti-slip, because in socks on wood is where you slip fastest.

The handrail and the stair gate

A handrail that wobbles makes a staircase unsafe, even when the treads are new. A new handrail I fit firmly, in the wall or to the stairs. In a home where I also tiled the toilet and the shower, there is a new handrail on the stairs.

A stair gate at the top or bottom of the stairs I fix firmly in place. How I fit a stair gate is under furniture assembly.

What a covering does and does not fix

A covering is a new top layer and does not repair the stairs. A tread that creaks is usually loose, and it has to be fixed before anything goes over it. A staircase that sags, or whose stringer has come loose, is not fixed by covering it. If I see that, I tell you before I start.

A covering also makes the tread slightly thicker. As a result the first or the last step can meet the floor differently from the rest, especially if the floor below or above gets a new layer as well. That is a matter of measuring up, and I do it on the stairs themselves.

The stairs and the floor around them

The floor carries on at the top and bottom of the stairs. If that gets a new layer too, I do the stairs at the same time, so the transitions line up. How I handle floors is under floors and tiling, and the pattern in a room where the stairs come out is under herringbone floor installation. If the stairs are part of a renovation of a whole floor, they come under the renovation of that floor.

How I go about it

I come and look, measure up the stairs and walk through with you what is wrong. Through the contact page, send me photos of the stairs from below, from above and of the handrail, and say how many treads there are and whether the stairs are open or closed. Then I can already say what I expect.