How To Fix Uneven Stairs Quickly And Easily To Replace And Raise Treads #remodelaholic

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When we added new flooring in our 1960'south home remodel, it made the tiptop basement stair taller than the others. Run across how nosotros easily and quickly raised the stair treads to ready the uneven steps and correct the ascension of the staircase.

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Fixing Uneven Stair Steps by Raising Stair Treads

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As I mentioned in the basement remodel update, our basement stairs were uneven after we added new flooring in the upstairs. The lesser stair was likewise shorter than the others to begin with.

This might exist an one-time-house remodel quirk that some people would simply choose to shrug and live with, just I wanted to fix it! #youmightberemodelaholic 😉

Here'due south what the stairs looked like in the last video update:

basement remodel - fixing uneven stairs

Our top stair was virtually 2 inches taller, and the bottom stair was about 2 inches shorter, so we needed to update the rise of the stairs to brand nice even steps.

Later some thought and planning, we came upwards with an like shooting fish in a barrel and relatively quick fashion to practice it! So here's what they look like now:

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Note that nosotros are putting carpet on the stairs, and then this stair tread prepare didn't need to be pretty since information technology will be covered by the carpet.

Prep for the Stair Remodel

We had already removed all the old carpeting, so that was done earlier I started working on the stair remodel.

Raising the steps too meant that nosotros needed to remove the handrail, since it was now ii″ too depression. I removed that and patched all the holes.

Nosotros're going to refinish the original handrail to match the at present-visible open beams in the basement ceiling before reinstalling with new hardware, since the old hardware was breaking.

How to Easily Raise Stair Treads Without Removing the Old Tread

Rather than demoing the old staircase or removing the original treads, I just congenital new treads correct on top.

If you watch the remodel update from a couple weeks ago, you tin actually see the first step already washed!

  1. I trimmed the old stair tread to the same depth as the stair riser. We cutting off about one ane/4″ using a round saw.
  2. I layered 2 pieces of 7/16″ OSB, cut to fit the stair, and glued and screwed those together and to the old trimmed tread.
  3. So I added the new bullnose 1″ wood stair tread on top, and glued and screwed it in place.

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These new stair treads are SOLID!

Depending on the height you need to add together to balance out the heights of your stair steps, you might not demand all the layers that I did.

What did it price?

A few sheets of OSB (plus what I already had on hand) cost $75-100, and each stair tread was around $10. Then our 13 stairs toll around $130 for treads. Grand total effectually $250 in materials.

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What's Next in our Basement Remodel

Nosotros're going to sand and pigment to finish all the walls and stop the lighting earlier we go the rug installed.

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Fix Uneven Stairs Without Demolishing Staircase, Basement Stairway Remodel #remodelaholic

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