Autumn stair calendar: measures within two days, most staircases finished the same week · (555) 027-2298 · stairs@treadwellfloors.example
Services & rates
The per-step card
Counted on the day, on the staircase — never estimated from photographs. The measure is free, the quote is fixed, and the banister stays usable on every job we can keep it so.
Stairs, sanded & finished$71 / step
Treads, risers, stringers stripped back to timber, finished to match the floor
Stairs, re-treaded$198 / step
Worn treads out, 40 mm oak in, nosings cast to the old profile
Nosing renewal onlyfrom $44 / step
Routed, rebuilt or bent-laminated to the original line
Stair runner prep$28 / step
Padding and fit points for your upholsterer, plus rod re-hanging
Landing & upper floor$4.65 / sq ft
Sanded or laid to meet the staircase at one level
Whole-house refinish$4.40 / sq ft
Stairs and floors in one job, one containment, one invoice
Why stairs cost what they cost
The nosing is the whole staircase
A floor hides its wear under furniture; a stair publishes it on the edge of every tread, because the edge is the part your boot strikes two hundred times a day. We cut nosings to the original profile — routed, built up, or bent-laminated in strips around a form — so the line your eye follows up the staircase never breaks. It is patient work. It is also the difference between a staircase that looks refinished and one that looks new.
Six years on the staircase
Six years against lipping, movement and finish failure on any staircase we have sanded or re-treaded — in writing, on the quote, honoured by the two names that signed it.
How it goes
A staircase, in four visits
Most staircases run three working days plus a cure day, with the banister usable every evening.
Visit one — count & profile
Every tread measured, the nosing profile traced onto a template, loose treads tested by hand. The quote is written per step on the spot, fixed.
Visit two — strip & fasten
Paint and varnish come off, creaking treads are screwed and blocked from below where the geometry allows, and anything split is flagged for re-treading.
Visit three — sand & nose
Treads, risers and stringers sanded closed-coat; worn nosings routed out and new hardwood set to the traced profile, matched grain to grain.
Visit four — coats & walkthrough
Sealer and two topcoats over the whole staircase and landing as one surface, then the lamp-raking walkthrough with you. Sock traffic next morning.
2025 — 2026
Staircases of the ridge
Six jobs from the last year. Three are staircases alone; the other three took the landing and upper floor with them, finished to one level.
The shop, counted
Owners
The ridge, on the record
Fourteen treads re-done in oak, the nosings copied from the one tread that survived, and the landing blended in so you cannot find the seam from any angle. Our contractor asked who did it. He sends them work now.
They kept the banister usable the whole job, which mattered more than we expected with a toddler and a grandmother in the house. The creak on tread seven — the one every visitor commented on — is simply gone.
Two other firms quoted to carpet the schoolhouse stairs because "the profiles are not available". Treadwell built the profiles. The heritage officer was delighted and so was the budget.
Before you book
Asked on every stair call
The five the ridge asks about staircases. Floors get their questions answered too — same line, seven to five.
Can we use the stairs during the work?
Yes, every evening and usually all day on sanding days — we finish treads in halves where a house has only the one staircase, and the banister stays bolted on throughout. Only the coat days ask for a night’s patience.
Re-tread or sand — how do we choose?
If the tread is sound but scarred, sanding keeps the original timber and costs a third of re-treading. If the nose is worn round, the board is split, or a previous owner planed it flat, the tread has earned replacement. We mark every tread at the measure: S or R, in chalk, and you can change any of them.
What is a nosing, exactly?
The rounded overhang at the front edge of each tread — the part your boot actually strikes. It is the most-worn centimetre of wood in your house, and renewing it is most of what makes a staircase read as new. We cut it to your staircase’s own profile, traced at the measure.
Will the stairs match the floor?
Sanded or re-treaded, the staircase is finished in the same system as the floor in the same job — one sealer, one topcoat schedule, one plane. Where the species differ we blend by sampling on the lower treads until you approve it.
Do you do the whole house too?
We do — the per-foot card above covers it — and one containment covering stairs and floors is quieter, quicker and cheaper than two crews. But a staircase alone has never been too small a job for us.
Count your stairs with us
Tell us the house, the staircase and what the treads have taken. The measure is free, every tread gets marked sand-or-replace on the day, and the quote is fixed before work starts. stairs@treadwellfloors.example