Four ways to sheathe the stairs with carpet with your own hands + Video

When arranging the interior space of the house, you should take care of the safety of moving the stairs, especially if children or elderly relatives live here ...

A good solution is to use carpet for finishing the steps - a modern material that not only fits perfectly into the interior of the room, but also due to a special pile coating prevents slipping on the steps, which makes moving stairs is safe.

General information

And on concrete stairs finished with carpet, the steps will become warm and comfortable even for barefoot children's feet.

Coating stairs with carpet has found its application not only in residential premises - it is widely and successfully used in offices, institutions, hotels, almost everywhere where the safety and comfort of visitors is concerned. We will tell you how to sheathe a staircase with carpet in our article.

Which carpet is better to choose

When going to a carpet store to buy carpet, be sure to consider the following points:

• - it is best to opt for a material marked "for stairs";
• - choose a carpet with a strong base and reinforced pile;
• - on the seamy side, the carpet should be made of rubber coatings;
• - choose a coating from combined fibers. Natural fibers provide good thermal insulation, artificial fibers give the material strength, repel water and thereby extend the service life.

How to correctly calculate the amount of carpet

Starting from the very top, determine the length of all risers and treads using a tape measure, add 4 cm to the size each rung, then add all the numbers.

If you are going to sheathe a swing ladder, use the outside edge to measure. To determine the width, measure the widest rung on the bend.

For an open staircase, add an additional 4 cm to the width of the steps to fold the covering.

IMPORTANT: The staircase must be sheathed with carpet from the upper platform to the lower riser.

What tools and additional materials will be needed for work:

• - slats with spikes;
• - backing (preferably felt);
• - wooden planks;
• - metal corners;
• - adhesive tape;
• - screws and nails;
• - carpet knife;
• - hammer.

Preliminary work

Before starting work, unfold and unfold the carpet and leave for at least a day.

Also, before starting the sheathing work, the surface of the steps should be inspected. Small irregularities do not need to be removed, they will not be noticeable under the coating. If the edges are badly worn, it is better to restore them.

For wooden steps, use a planer, then build up the edges with wood planks secured with screws.

The edges of stone and concrete steps are restored with cement mortar. When it dries, additionally install metal corners.

ATTENTION :

The carpet is cut so that the fibers are parallel to the front edge of the steps

Should the underlay be laid under the carpet ?

Today, the opinion is increasingly common that it is not necessary to put a substrate under the carpet: the coating is soft enough and independently hides the unevenness of the base. However, experts say the opposite: the underlay is an integral part of laying carpet, especially on stairs, where the permeability is very high.

Here are the main reasons:

• - the substrate protects against friction and increases the life of the carpet by 2 times;
• - the substrate has shock-absorbing properties , takes on a significant part of the load;
• - the substrate increases sound and heat insulation.

The substrate is fixed with nails at sufficiently large intervals.

Variants of laying carpet on the stairs

Using fixing strips

1. We nail the slats with spikes on the sides of the steps on the back and bottom edges of the riser. If the surface is flat, the planks can be fixed with glue. For wooden stairs, it is better to use nails. Reiki can be bought ready-made or made by yourself.

   Nails are nailed onto the plywood in 2 rows, the material clings to them like hooks.

2. We lay the substrate along the entire length of the staircase, fixing it with staples or adhesive tape;
3. We stretch the carpet into the gap between the slats using a chisel. Thoroughly tap with a mallet the places where the rails are attached so that the nails fit as firmly as possible into the seamy side of the carpet.
4. Use a sharp carpet knife to drive the carpet well between the slats. We fix the free edges by carefully tucking it; We nail the carpet on the sides with nails;
5. Cut the carpet at the points of abutment to the wall, pressing it to the base with a chisel.

   The final stage is to fix the covering with a rail, which is attached to the floor and keeps the carpet taut.

Carpet laying with glue

This type of laying is convenient to use for concrete stairs, although it is quite long and laborious. The steps are glued in turn, starting from the top.

Prepare the surface of the stairs by cleaning and priming it well;

We smear the steps with glue and put a pre-cut strip of carpet on it;

Firmly press the carpet to the step and iron it over the entire surface with a rubber-tipped trowel;

Carefully cut off excess coating.

Carpet laying using bars

The most affordable way of attaching the carpet to the stairs with your own hands.

Best for wide stair treads. The staircase is sheathed with a single sheet, which is fixed at the corners of the steps with rods.Then the rods are inserted into special rings.

The main advantage of this method is the ability to remove the carpet for cleaning and ventilation in the fresh air.

Installing prefabricated rungs

Separate rugs can be used instead of full carpet runners.

This gives a number of advantages:

• - the ability to use different colors for each step;
• - easy installation;
• - the ability to quickly refresh the interior;
• - the design of fastening the linings allows them to be quickly dismantled for washing or replacing.

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