Treads, Risers and Nosing
Red oak, white oak, hickory and maple are the four tread woods. Each is 1 inch thick and 11 1/2 inches deep, with a bull nose and its riser.
Red oak, white oak, hickory and maple are the four tread woods. Each is 1 inch thick and 11 1/2 inches deep, with a bull nose and its riser.
Tread samples ride in the estimator's truck. Set them against your floor at the foot of the stairs and the right species picks itself.
Wobbly farmhouse steps get screwed solid before anything else. After that, every tread is cut to the stringers, bedded in glue and fastened tight.
Licensed, insured, NWFA certified crews build every Hampton staircase, and the labor is covered for one year. Any squeak or loose tread is ours to fix.



Each step is $60, and that pays for the hardwood tread, riser, bull nose, stain matched to your floor and the labor. No part of the stair is billed on its own.
Yes, the carpet comes off along with the pad, the tack strips and every staple. What that costs is settled at the free visit.
If the wood is sound, hand sanding and refinishing is $50 per step. Split, cupped or thin treads are replaced instead.
Hickory is the hardest of the four and shrugs off grit and mud. White oak comes next in hardness and accepts stain without blotching.
A typical flight is rebuilt in one day, and the stain and finish cure overnight. You use them in socks the next morning.
Yes, we mix the stain on site and test it beside your floor at the foot of the stairs. The samples are checked in daylight before anything is final.
We do, for $50 per step in labor, and every edge gets a nose piece in the same shade. It flows into a laminate floor above or below.
Only people on the Brazil Floors payroll, all licensed, insured and NWFA certified. Their labor is covered for twelve months.