How to Laminate Stairs. Stair Noses. Step by Step Installation. DIY. Shot with GoPro

hey everyone thanks for tuning into you do it today we're gonna start ripping this carpet off and replacement with beautiful laminate flooring with wide stare noses and if you're ready I'm gonna show you like you do it let's go all right you ready to begin better get one of these all right the first remove the carpet have this way [Music] this lip here to be honest Allah peace and let's do by 10 and song sticking out 3/8 or so there a couple options and 3/8 piece of plywood here in the back and make it straight like this basically another option [Music] [Music] [Music] sold those staples are extremely sharp they get into so and you walk on this or you do this Regulus good chance it will scratch even this extremely durable finish you don't wanna risk so check all right so obviously here I don't want to use a new blade I'll be removing staples and all kinds of stuff so I'm just gonna use an old demolition blade which is wooden nails and then I use a one [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] that's how long it's gonna take you to hand scrape all these staples on every single one of them this big basically makes it like ten times faster and you don't end up sweating and hurting yourself let's move on thank you so though okay I think of 233 you know happening yeah yeah it's enough just the bacon my factory is here [Music] [Music] [Music] now actually I want to tell you about this tail piece here very important to have it here because when you rip and then you slide back this actually prevents prevents your plane to hit the saw in the back like this they can safely just drag it of being scared of this type of scenario when it kicks at you okay [Music] if you change the oil [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] of course you do like wear earmuffs when he ran between the walls like this I go pick up the whole staircase and I'll show you how I do it you can do one at a time when I first started with this what is the 12 13 15 years ago I was going one of the time then when I got to the level where I was comfortable with it pepper on five staircases was coming to town that's already freaked out of him and then stead of them in one go I'm gonna make it for a little bit uh 34 [Music] well unfortunately last night I as I was starting to put this video together I found out that I'm missing like clip where I show you how I measured these angles and do this whole layout thing so I'm gonna show it to you on this staircase obviously I don't want to be a huge spoiler I don't want to it on the staircase that is already done so as you can see these were just cut straight and then cooked with some kind of colored caulking these were all cut 90 of course walls are not walls are in and out anytime so of course professionals we do have a stair master tool which basically is an adjustable you can spread it out and you can adjust these things here obviously I don't expect you to have a professional tool or go buy one for $300 just do one staircase I'm gonna show you how I used to do it long time ago when I did not have a stair master nobody had that so of course a very important thing to know see how they're nailed here you can see these nails nail holes right everywhere feel but you see them and what these nails in the middle here do your staircase is never flat it's never straight they're always curves down to here and curves in to here why because the stringers on the sides are attached to the walls and the middle stringers are basically hanging in the air so with time they said which creates this unevenness here so if you shoot nails right here in the middle it pushes it in and so it becomes crooked same happens here so then you need to go and undercut this this was undercut that was undercut or you get these gaps here I do things quite differently and of course I don't find out these angles with squares what I do I take this measure and I go half inch shorter for it two and a half for each one half it does need to be a good good wine 90 degrees actually I have to do it from this side so this is a factory edge here and I measure the width of the staircase it's about 11 and this one is the one on the half so it's good for my purposes and then I you can use a chop saw slide in chaps or to cut it I use tables so to do it and so okay almost contractors or pretty much all if they don't have a stair master professional tool though uses square to check this angle or they use a framing square which is basically a 2 by 24 by 16 they'll put it against this and they'll look at this angle now we see about eighth of an inch gap here and here we have about sixteenth of an inch gap here now since this is curved in this is not a true line so the true line is somewhere actually here so basically your tools if you do it like this you have rest on them against a side wall that is curved in which results in an accurate in accurate reading here that's why I do this this is basically a big framing square did I custom create for every staircase because now it goes from this point to this point yeah now it's resting against these corners look here let me take my camera off and shove it in there about eight of an inch 3/16 of an inch gap here my pencil goes in very easily it's all the way in here all the way in here but a gap here all right so this is square it's supposed to be right there so it tells me there is a gap there but this true square this gap is twice more now what this guy was showing me we have this meeting which is sixteenth of an inch without it it's not even that it's about half okay now of course this one is not as bad as sound them will be imagine this going in quarter-inch and that's usually the case anywhere from eighth of an inch to quarter of an inch sometimes even more especially not older homes where these middle stringers have sagged with time and so everything got bowed and so now what I do I rested against the back wall shower into one of the corners I take it back to my room we make it about sixteenth of an inch shorter I don't want to fight with these walls and when my piece to just drop in basically without scratching walls fighting it bang so 42 42 it's a 3/4 type measuring I'm gonna make a sixteenth of an inch shorter it's gonna be 42 eleven sixteenths now all I do is I look at this line and so I need to add maybe sixteenth of an edge there so I just do zero on the top plus 1/16 on the bottom I stick it into this corner make sure it's up against the back and this is almost 3/16 of an inch here and my speed square what's telling me half of it but this is telling me 3/16 gap which means I have to remove this distance from here right and so the foot of course the back measure you never mess with this is the back measure so you add sixteenth of an inch there and you actually removed 3/16 of an inch here so this piece can go all the way in this is our measure right so we're gonna do - 3/16 here and same fashion I'll go over and of course you put a number then you do the riser is the same way so this is your run then you do the riser well I actually do the runs the flat parts all of them then then I go another way because the riser is is the shorter usually then the flat part the run so when I do the riser actually trim this to the proper height and that's why I go one way to the runs and trim this to the width of this riser and I go do my risers and I'll put them close here the the measure is the same it stays the same you measure this is the same as you measure this right okay yeah I'm gonna look at it here again it's the same 4211 will alright 4211 and of course you put numbers let's say number one number two number three and so on now this one I get a remove eighths of an inch here so do minus eighth of an inch then zero on top you don't have to do zeros stick it against this wall and it tells me I gotta remove a to the Lynch here so just do minus eighth of an inch and I'll move to the next I look at this perfect 90 42:13 242 3/4 that's called it doesn't matter forty two three four so for an x mark here meaning perfect square put it up against this you can add 16 to that I mean remove sixteenths of an inch here if you're not happy with this tiny ball gap let's just do that - you can tell 1/32 luck you can actually and I do that it becomes a problem like this I'll just put some masking tape here so it prevents it to unlock or a duct tape but for this purpose I don't really care it up against the back wall I gotta add about 8 of an inch so do the takeoff for 4213 so we'll do 3/4 and this side I'm adding an 8 so plus 1/8 at the bottom and right toward the very end there is a little tiny gap so you can address that or you can just kwok it it's up to you all right so good I think you get the point right now I can finish my video and I'll actually show you how to do it without all these nails here without all these nail heads I have a way of making it without damaging the finish then having to fill all these nail holes and they're distorted you can feel you drive a nail it kind of gets damaged and gets distorted some of them turn out nice but others there's another basically chips the finish off and then you have to fill it with caulking and of course it doesn't look that professional well I mean every staircase is like that when you get on your fourth then you look at it point-blank and so I'm gonna show you how to avoid this gap here how to basically fix this face what basically alone and not putting any nails in the face of it and the surface [Music] you ready for it let's do it now like say take a look at this I have 12 steps 24 angle right out of 24 only 1 2 3 4 5 5 at 95 out of 24 that's 20% approximately right 80% is off in and out that's why I do that so now I'm gonna have to go back I'm gonna flip it of course walls are in and out so you know I'm gonna get this gap perfect never gonna get it perfect you can try you can cut it back like this like 22 degree or so make this edge sharp so it cuts into the drywall but it's going to be extremely easy to damage I tried that too so it's just much better to just fill this with clear silicone after I'm done that really makes it beautiful I need to perfect okay five and a half [Music] [Music] [Music] this is a piece of overlap but I just have to put here can do this right just can't do flush mount our hands on your rest of the floor and good supposed to move around they just can't do that I have to basically measure this of course coming 94 you got a 94 in the cage that basically if you want to cut in half okay now of course you want to be careful with the your staircase mine might be wider than this one this one is pretty narrow usually they're 242 and up so here under down chop don't happen I'll go and lay mountains [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] they cut them to the right width where's the same thing goes for this you want to mix them up it's gonna be just like this behind it and another one and sometimes another one so obviously you don't want them to be like this mix them up there sometimes I want this mail end to be preserved because the way this stair nose operates basically still slips into the mail edge okay now I need one at five see there's an inch and quarter that's gonna be left and I'm gonna use it my vertical piece the riser my five-inch Runner is a number twelve oh hello let me just do pile up the water number one yes I don't arrest I'll set the fight man 3/8 5/8 no show you why they don't wanna put it on the side in this file and now I'm gonna put here this loop like I did it's not safe we don't do these two without my mask but laminate when you cut it means lots of lots of dust and so when I treat that bunch of em like this at the time and do your mops and my mask well the two of them without [Music] [Music] [Music] come on guys let's line it up [Music] okay so now I have all my threads runs of course full plane stays as it is I don't need to know so making all of them seven three-eighths let's grab this just lucky here guys I just need to reap except one the first one I want to make a 5/16 remember I just wanted it to be cut back the same so I'd need to make one that 1516 and one that 7/8 you can do the same thing market having these perhaps 5/16 [Music] [Music] [Music] they put these two points here my chart here we have 34 and 1/16 but I have my zero here on my zero here so what do you do I did take all the measures in the back side so I mark it here I'll get here take my tape measure and I do 34 and 1/16 instead of adding eight of an inch here I just had a gap here I'm gonna remove eight of an inch on this side so instead I'll work back to an inch connect the lines here basically my measure is from this mark to this mark here is the same thing I'm gonna do 90 I'm gonna mark it here I'm gonna see what I have to do I have to add one sixteenth of an inch here so I'm just gonna add it to make these lines do this you're gonna go and do it on the table so really quick but usually I just do all of them on mark all of them then I'll cut all the line and of course I don't want to cut my stair nose just yet [Music] it's straight cut let's put my square here a Dimitri from Ukraine good for you 34 and 1/16 I think me tree from Ukraine wants to be on YouTube European quality Mexican prices called Dmitry from Ukraine he'll paint your house so here I have a zero and 3/16 on the bottom I'm just gonna put a square can work here or just add 3/16 I bought or user if measure can make the lines [Music] right with them mark here work here 3/16 of poor line keep your square where it is 3/4 and 1/4 and 1/8 on the bottom so 34 and 1/4 all right 34 in a corner have to add one inch so I'm just gonna put a pencil at the angle like this and eyeball or so and you can like that's zero at the top you had one sixteenths the button okay that it raised to keep the slower it is hold on to it maybe four in the quarter stick that double kick things here which 3/16 market their neck before we decide number six sweet cuts masterful you can buy for 250 bucks mark square and subtract 16 to an inch okay thank you give the point right down to the last one with you there hate them an inch at the bottom we don't put the suspense on the handle English thirty-four even come back here and I have to add three sixteenths on the bottom I'm gonna put the fence on the end go again and I both three sixteenths and connect the wines again I know you do some of you might not who knows I'm just gonna leave him there and I'm gonna do the flat part before I go Karl the same kind of idea okay the Reiser's of this need to connect together remember one is all square cuts which is good 3406 choice number two square cut right side factory do this 34 in 1/16 [Music] 3/16 added in the bottom so again I bore my 3/16 wrong number on it don't put a number here they unhook only you in that fashion let's see mm-hmm cut them both and I'm gonna line them up and either side [Music] [Music] 34 in the quarter great [Music] one sixteenth edited the tough right there since we're measuring the bar I'm gonna leave it on the mark hold it yeah I'm just gonna clamp it down here do 34 and 3/16 three four three sixteenths this one I do have to remove this sixteenth of an inch okay [Music] Hey well it's time to Cattermole I'm gonna do both but I'm not gonna do the stare noses because if I messed up on any of these I want to know before I cut them so actually steer noses I cut at the very last just before I said them basically so after all my flat parts of the runs are in and I confirm that they're right I go and cut their noses [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey everyone it's day two on our staircase and we're ready to do some steps today are you ready 18 gauge pneumatic nailer I'm going to switch to one inch nails I begin by the seven somewhere close to worthy gonna end up building alright so this is six seven eight six seven eight maybe even here and so basically before I have my noses I want to make sure that I'm right oh no these so I'm gonna put it in place and if some of them sounding don't work out and just set a gif here I'm gonna take it all apart later I'm gonna set a gap here so this riser sits here in behind this way I don't need to mail here you can interlock and then I can push this one in with a hammer but at this point I'm just checking the all gonna work out this one is too high maybe it's because this one is not all the way down [Music] this forest angles we're good no five this one just keep setting because I'm pouring these all at once because I don't want to go back and forth up and down the steps I just want them to drop like okay [Music] doesn't hit one faucet I usually check from both sides yeah that's too tight right number yes this one I don't have to trim so check the end go here it's good I'll check the other side let's see that I'm off right here so I did it from right here so don't leave it go check the rest that's how I want it to fit just drops in push it in a little bit yeah like this you don't need to use the no okay so that's number eight I'm going to put it on the side I mean number seven yeah this is number eight in this way you don't have to count them one two three four five you have a number here you have a number here so becomes like furniture from Ikea operate this thing nobody's ever gonna matter thanks dude this is a bet if you can trace the wall it's like this right when you lose a stick yeah okay so I'm gonna take please think I'm down there so this one I need to cut yes I want to be flip out this time yep this one is good okay now this one of course oh it's too high and you can check with low piece and I put it here oh I see I see a gap I see you gap under the pencil use longer level and the gap is gonna be bigger this that's why you sharpen like this actually and put it like that's like that and trace your line from the back he's gonna be pretty accurate even have to make make a perfect because we're gonna end up putting Google on this then go here here okay here [Music] oh just sometimes they just double every other steps it's up to you you can land down some there because if this is two out of 90 they may not stand properly so you just have to be either careful take them down completely alright now I'm gonna go and play with these with you so I check that that side is fine but this one I was wrong with some of it what I'm gonna do is first I'm gonna check measure here and it's 34 and 3/8 so I'm gonna put it going align it quarter inch here quarter inch there and since I wanted little shorter than this sixteenth of an inch I'm going to just put my pencil on that mark and just gonna trace it to the wall at the same angle okay again I've seen it all childhood closer so I marked it sixteenth of an inch and I put it here find the right angle and I go with the wall it goes it's what glides or slides against the wall I'm gonna start with [Music] [Music] it once more likes to be chapter thing I'm just into this corner that's what this one here InDesign double check it yes dude okay we're ready to rock and roll actually is to correct these the number 12 was wrong number 12 it was off a little bit right and the number seven I'm just gonna lean it like this now put it wash with this you know check well this side is good now I'll do the same here and this side is off of it okay so I trimmed the quality for you sir I don't want to go by it by the crooked corner this [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you'll notice I use the old blade so I don't get a clean cut I get some tiny chips right that's actually what I want tiny chips I don't want a perfect edge because perfect edge well look awkward against the unperfect wall and then when you it it will kind of show you'll see that perfect edge you don't want it perfect you want slight chips okay slightly can't be a super same cut so when you do laminate don't get a new blade just use an old one as long as it doesn't chip it really badly just slightly and you do wear your muffs okay so I actually put it this way first apply my glue backside of it you can actually do the whole thing it's up to you I think this way doesn't stick out there's no mess I do want to take this strike it like this of course I will be double second thing for I put you on them I want to double check lay it down like this and you will need something but the water drip one like that and this one doesn't require too much good well it's a piece that's gonna stand here like this okay most people will put a bunch of nails will put Drive nails here in the middle push it in so it will take the form of your existence staircase which is all bow so I don't like doing that obviously so since the riser sits here I can hide couple nails right underneath it okay and so all I want to do really of course you do want to check this right I wanna make sure that it all seats properly and sit on things they kind of check before you nail it keep it here what I do have to go or a full plane can strike up like this so the glue gets transferred now put one nail here before I loaded red so you can use and a half so this I use one-inch chances of them bending and coming out the other side are smaller this way right there and I don't put anything here I do put on the other like this the angle right here I don't put anything here because I don't want to take the shape again this old staircase have been second for 80 years yes I hear you I don't care I'm working the reason I use subfloor liquid nails top floor and deck because when you get it on your products it's easy to remove it to just these gloves okay and now I'm not gonna put anything there the glue won't catch it so then I'm just gonna drive one or two right in the corner of somewhere make sure there's something to Meltzer you can go highlight this here I'm trying to drive with it into that like this and don't drive anything here see the gift you don't push all that stuff in there just want it to catch and so I'm gonna leave this piece till the very end you gonna come back after I'm done with the staircase and set this piece and the very last piece out there put it here check flip it [Music] [Music] I'm gonna go from the other side here very edge of course I'm doing this and I know no but it's gonna walk on for 24 hours she do have traffic or anticipating traffic you should definitely put more now here we go into this strip on this which is do strips waves troops [Applause] about half inch overhang it's gonna hide my nails I'm just gonna put one here though on the angle about like this make sure it's down all the way and nothing here in the middle I'm gonna show you how to do without nailing there was these days because they're shiny and sleek so these holes and days surface will be show it you'll see them how instead now I'm just gonna put glue everywhere like this do that okay I do waves triangle and I do want to make sure that go on this piece as well so now I'm gonna put it in its gonna just Google this whole thing together and no it's gonna be holding it all together is glue that those nails anymore pretty good [Music] [Music] I didn't [Music] [Music] but it's no problem only the subfloor can do there's like regular liquid nails are you gonna have hard time with it get it on that all over the place no matter how careful you are and you work in tight space like this especially you're gonna get it all things you know guaranteed so I only have one top stair nose left to do we're gonna go around it and that's gonna be the last time you're gonna do this week all right if you do need to go up the staircase obviously we want to step here on the side right then you don't want to step on the stair nose like this wanna step right here a point Westport go everything you two okay so for some reason my go my GoPro camera stopped working when I was actually undercutting this so I'm gonna show it to you again basically way the piece of scrap here right and then I just went like this then I took this wall-to-wall matter if they do pour in 1/4 okay I made sure this is square and it's in decent shape it's not broken my ship okay so I'm putting in the gap as you see and I do ducks and I do white does not one single that's like on the spot like this now you go sideways like like this and this one this their nose is overlap so it's extremely delicate and if it's not done right potentially you can make it off so I do use what's with you now if you when you put it in all that blue and I do nail it these I do male okay so my riser is here I don't wanna nail it into it I don't want a nail here and I don't want here I want my nails be right over this this so I flip I put one right here one there okay I can't let you though anything here I do usually one of them bad boys well you can tape it this there is to rule in next 24 hours we're done here look I barely went through and one record II still have left maybe they're real oh I don't think well job well done people it's time to go have some beer and enjoy a short weekend of course don't forget to put a big-ass sign to let everyone know don't go there [Applause] to make it look perfect no this is a clear walking vulture unclear try so just like that and if you work together with this much when it dries all those gifts gonna disappear few hours I'm gonna see that okay so I think you get the point right it used clear clear it's why its initial when it dries in a few hours will become clear just easier this way to apply hey what do you know all the gaps are gone where did they go hey Lou I'll sound them I still cried I think this one is still dry in there but it's all I mean if you don't crawl no for put your eyes in there looks pretty good what do you think [Music] you

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Keywords: Laminate Floors, Stair Case, Stair Noses, DIY, Home Improvement, Laminate Plank, Remodel, Renovation, Pergo, Install Laminate Steps

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Length: 110min 34sec (6634 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 16 2019