Treads, Risers and Nosing
Four species are available for a Barnstable tread: red oak, white oak, hickory and maple. Whatever you pick arrives an inch thick and eleven and a half inches deep, with a rounded front and a riser to go under it.
Four species are available for a Barnstable tread: red oak, white oak, hickory and maple. Whatever you pick arrives an inch thick and eleven and a half inches deep, with a rounded front and a riser to go under it.
A box of tread samples rides along on every Barnstable estimate. Lay them on the floor at the bottom of your stairs and the right species is obvious in a minute.
Wobbly steps get screwed to the stringers before any new wood shows up on a Barnstable stair. After that every tread is scribed to fit, bedded in glue and fastened for good.
Every Barnstable staircase is built by NWFA certified employees working under our license and policy, and the labor is covered for a full year. Anything that slips, we fix.



$60 a step on the Cape. Inside that: tread, riser, bull nosed edge, a stain blended to your floor and the labor of putting it in.
Yes. Carpet first, then pad, tack strips and staples, all off the Barnstable stair, with the removal charge agreed on site before the first tread goes on.
Oak treads that are still solid get hand sanded and recoated for $50 a step. A tread that cracked or wore thin is swapped for new.
Yes. Oak risers stained like the treads turn the whole stair into wood, while painting them white sharpens the contrast.
Almost always on a Barnstable stair. Wobbly steps get screwed tight first, and every new tread is scribed in, bedded in glue and fastened so it cannot shift.
A return piece caps each exposed end, so the nose profile continues around the side and the Barnstable tread looks finished from any angle.
Prefinished treads are special ordered and take weeks. Unfinished jobs in Barnstable often begin the next day and the crew is gone by the second evening.
Yes. A year on the stair labor, from NWFA certified employees who bring our license and insurance over the bridge to every Barnstable job.