4. Cut and Install the Carpet Pad Lay the padding across your scrap wood work surface. Use sharp fabric scissors or a utility knife to cut the carpet padding for each stair tread and riser.

Sprucing up a staircase might seem like a chore, but replacing wood stair treads might be easier that you though. Here's what you need to know.

Mauro paints stair treads; the team highlights some tools; Heath installs wall sconces. Mauro Henrique shows a homeowner the right technique and materials to paint his unfinished wood stair treads ...

Treads form the horizontal top surface of each step, and risers are installed directly under the front lip of each tread. Deck staircases don't always have risers, but it's a good idea to install ...

This stringer tutorial is based on the simplest form of stairs, those with a saw tooth tread-riser design (so to speak) and that are fastened directly onto house or deck framing.

The stair treads and risers are fastened to and held firm by stringers, which are analogous to the joists under a floor. The stringers are the bones of the stairs.

Based on the survey results, the company reduced their slip-and-fall risk by adhering reflective safety tape to all stair treads and installing track lighting and stair riser lights wherever possible.

Older stairs usually had risers of about nine inches with nine-inch treads, but these measurements varied depending on need—some older homes have stairs almost as steep as a ladder.

In Michigan, the code mandated stair geometry is 8¼ / 9 ; that is the maximum riser height in a flight of main-use stairs is 8 ¼ inches and the minimum tread depth, front to back, is 9 inches.