Treads, Risers and Nosing
Red oak, white oak, hickory and maple are the four tread options in Fairfield, all 1 inch thick, 11 1/2 inches deep, bull nosed and paired with a riser.
Red oak, white oak, hickory and maple are the four tread options in Fairfield, all 1 inch thick, 11 1/2 inches deep, bull nosed and paired with a riser.
Tread samples ride in the estimator's truck to your Fairfield home. Set them at the foot of the stairs beside your floor and the match is obvious.
Before a single tread goes on, any step that moves is screwed down to the stringers. Each new tread is then scribed to the skirt board, glued and fastened down.
Every Fairfield staircase is built by our own licensed, insured and NWFA certified installers, with one year of labor warranty behind it. If anything shifts, we come back and fix it.



A new step in Fairfield is $60, and that figure includes the hardwood tread, the riser, the bull nose, a stain matched to your floor and the labor to install it. The number is the same on each step of the flight.
Yes, the carpet, its pad, the tack strips and all the staples leave with our crew. The removal price is agreed on during the estimate.
If the oak under the carpet is still solid, we hand sand and refinish those treads for $50 per step in Fairfield. Treads that are cracked or sanded thin get swapped for new oak instead.
Yes, and oak risers in the same stain as the treads give the stair an all wood look. White painted risers give a sharper contrast.
On most Fairfield stairs, yes. Moving steps are fastened to the stringers first, and each new tread is glued and screwed so nothing shifts underfoot.
Each exposed end receives a return, so the bull nose continues around the side of the tread. From the hall, the open side looks as finished as the front.
With unfinished treads the crew can usually begin the day after the estimate and finish in two days. Factory finished treads are ordered to spec and take several weeks to reach Fairfield.
Yes, the stair labor is covered for twelve months, and the Fairfield installers are licensed, insured and NWFA certified.