After that i did two coats of paint.
Ways to refinish stairs.
The frugal grand staircase refinishing adventure.
Steps to refinishing your stair treads.
The old polyurethane comes up with the stripper goo.
Vacuum between passes then wipe down the treads with a tack cloth.
If you like the look of basement you don t have to cover up your stairs at all.
Wipe the goo off of the scraper and continue don t bother trying to rinse it off.
Then i taped everything in preparation for painting.
This is the easiest way i have found to apply the gel stain.
First put a disposable latex glove on your dominant hand then put a kitchen glove over it and then put a sock over that.
So very many holes from the staples that held the carpet runner.
I scraped it into an old shoe box but where doesn t really matter.
Using a paint scraper scrape across the step with the grain of the wood.
Remove the existing carpet runner.
How to apply gel stain to a staircase.
The minwax poly is good because it dries in 20 30 minutes.
Instead try painting or staining or stain your existing stairs to give them a like new appearance.
But after seeing these staircases you ll realize that a boring staircase is an.
Staining stairs process the most important part of how to refinish stairs that were carpeted is as always cleaning the stairs thoroughly before applying any product.
In our case see what i did there this was vastly easier said than done.
Patch all holes with wood filler.
That took hours in itself.
To me the most important little tool is the tack cloth because even after vacuuming and cleaning the stairs i still got a huge amount of lint on the cloth.
Your staircase might be the last place in your home you d think to decorate.
25 diy ways to update your stairs.
Start by sanding down the treads to bare wood with the 80 grit sandpaper.
After everything is stained apply 2 3 coats of poly to seal the stairs.
All you do is dip your socked hand into the stain and wipe it on the wood.
This will require a combination of.