laminating stairs.

cena

I have a few boxes left over from fitting new floors. Anyone know where I can bull noses for stairs

punisher5112

I honestly wouldn't on a stairs, such a risk of slipping.

For me it would be carpet or at the very least with laminated it would want grips.

Hotblack Desiato

Carpet cuts down a lot on noise, too.

listermint

Don't do it. All the reasons Above.


Plus it will look ****e too. No offence

Calahonda52

Crazy and dangerous idea

2018na

Floor Designs in Bluebell do a kit specially for this application. Covers threads and risers and you can even get winders as well. Looks the biz

hognef

There's absolutely no problem having stairs without carpets on them. Sometimes I wonder whether people have actually ever set their foot outside Ireland/UK.

In lots of countries, carpets would be completely unheard of these days, on floors and on stairs. Wooden stairs would be the norm in many of those countries. They mightn't have the same grip as carpeted stairs, but they're certainly not dangerous.

Whether laminate is the right choice, is a different question. I certainly wouldn't get the thinnest stuff at least. As for the nosing, I think your best bet is to contact the supplier of the laminate to check if they have something to match.

Lumen

I have two flights of wooden stairs.

The top one is solid wood. It is fine.

The bottom one (maybe five steps) is finished in engineered wood to match the floors. It is a bit dangerous, or was until it got sufficiently scratched up to be grippy.

Laminate is generally more slippery than engineered wood, so I also vote "bad" unless the laminate is unusually grippy.

Dr_Colossus

Looks quite well in this short video even with the industrial cornering. It's something I've contemplated but have always stuck to carpet for the stairs.

Jeju

There is stuff called Quickstep which you can use that creates an angled edge, it clips into place on the stairs. My brother has an oak stairs in his house, he didn't install it to put carpet on it. Anyway, I laminates all my landing and created a bull nose form a tile to laminate reducer and pinned it on, the carpet from the stairs slips under the rebate. Best of both worlds.

listermint

Dr_Colossus wrote: »

Looks quite well in this short video even with the industrial cornering. It's something I've contemplated but have always stuck to carpet for the stairs.

No offence but that video looks ****. It looks like the backstairs of an office.


Any I don't think anyone is saying don't have timber stairs. The notion you should cover oak up with carpet is not what point is being made.

It's that laminate is not suitable for a home stairs. It looks ****e. It sounds ****e see video above and it's dangerous cos it can move and or be highly slippy.

I'd be dubious about any installer not warning you off it.