Installing Stair Tread Pads

Installing stair Tread pads
By HomeAdditionPlus.com

Hi my name is Mark Donovan form HomeAdditionPlus.com. I have a set of stairs here that are freshly painted and are very slack. What would I do today is add some stair tread pads to them to preserve the life of the paint job on the stairs but also act as a safety precaution such that nobody will slip in going down the stairs.

So what I have here is an 8 inch by 18 inch stair tread pad. And what I want to do is come over to the stair treads themselves and measures the width of the stair case and find the center point and make a mark.

Secondly, what I want to do is measure the width of the tread and find the center point and then once I found the center point of the tread, I will then adjust that four inches to the accommodate the back edge of the stair tread cap.

Once I have it centered on between the stair tread and the width of the stair, you can either glue it or staple it or tap it down. There are some come with a sticky stuff that you use to just tap it down; this do not. So what I am going to do, I might be stapling this down.

Once we have centered the stair pad into the center of the stair tread itself, all I am going to use today is a staple gun to secure in the four corners. [Demonstration]

And with that done we are going to basically just continue on and get all remaining stair tread’s pads installed.

So once you have all the staples into the pad, take a hammer, a couple of taps on the staples and they are virtually invisible to the naked eye.

So that is it. It took us about 15 minutes to install the stair pads. It cost about $10.00 per bundle of pads. You can find them in any home improvement. So if you guys have a set of slippery stairs, you can put a stair runner down or stair pads like these which are much simpler to do.

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