Creating Luxury Vinyl Plank Stairs with a Nosing: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this article, we will walk you through the process of creating luxury vinyl plank stairs with a nosing. We will cover everything from preparing the nosing to applying the flooring, and provide tips and tricks along the way.

The Nosing: A Different Application

The nosing on our staircase is made for a different application than it was originally designed for. However, we have adapted it to work for this particular project. Since the nosing would have hung over the edge of the step in its original form, we had to add some additional pieces to make up for the void. We used plastic and glued them into place to create a more sturdy piece. The manufacturer recommends using 80 grit sandpaper to roughen up any surfaces that will be glued, including the face of the stairs themselves.

Sanding the Nosings

We sanded the nosing to smooth out any rough edges or surfaces. This will help ensure a strong bond between the nosing and the flooring. We used an 80 grit sandpaper to roughen up the surface, but we did not sand too aggressively in order to avoid damaging the plastic.

Gluing the Nosings

We glued the nosing into place using a construction adhesive. The manufacturer recommends this type of adhesive for this application. We applied the glue carefully to ensure that it was evenly distributed and did not ooze out too much. If the glue does ooze, we can clean it up with water and a rag.

Roughening Up the Surface

Before gluing the nosing in place, we roughed up the surface of the flooring using 80 grit sandpaper. This will help ensure that the adhesive bonds well to the surface. We sanded both the top and bottom surfaces of the flooring to create a smooth surface for the glue to adhere to.

Applying the Glue

We applied the construction adhesive carefully, making sure to cover the entire surface area where the nosing would be glued in place. The manufacturer recommends using this type of adhesive, and we found it to be effective in bonding the nosing to the flooring.

Masking Tape

To hold the nosing in place while the glue dries, we used masking tape. We applied the tape carefully around the edges of the nosing to ensure that it was secure and did not shift during the drying process.

Roughing Up the Edge

Before applying the glue, we roughed up the edge of the flooring where the nosing would be glued in place. This will help ensure a strong bond between the nosing and the flooring.

Using Masking Tape to Hold the Nosing

We used masking tape to hold the nosing in place while the glue dried. This is an important step in ensuring that the nosing stays in place until the adhesive has fully set.

The Finished Product

Once the adhesive has dried, we removed the masking tape and the nosing should be securely attached to the flooring. We then applied a final coat of adhesive to ensure that everything was secure and bonded well.

Tips and Tricks

One important tip to keep in mind when working with luxury vinyl plank flooring is to provide proper access to the stairs. This means giving homeowners enough time to climb up and down without having to navigate around the new flooring. We skipped this step in our example, but we recommend doing so in a real-world installation.

Working with Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring

We also want to emphasize that working with luxury vinyl plank flooring requires careful attention to detail and proper preparation of the surface. It's not a job for beginners, and it's recommended that you have experience with flooring installations before attempting this project.

Conclusion

Creating luxury vinyl plank stairs with a nosing is a challenging but rewarding project. With the right tools and techniques, you can achieve professional-looking results in your own home. We hope this article has provided you with the information and guidance you need to get started on your own luxury vinyl plank staircase installation.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennobody's ever going to accuse me of building anything that isn't well glued together so hi welcome to house improvements i'm shannon in today's video i want to show you how i put laminate vinyl plank flooring onto a set of stairs so we've got a set of stairs that were previously carpeted and the homeowner wants to add laminate vinyl plank which you can see back here i've started the process so we had to strip all the carpeting off pull out all the staples the homeowner did a bit of work on squeaks and moans and groans of the existing staircase and we also in our case had to cut off the note or fill in nosings so that we just have a square face on the stairs and you'll see more about that when we get into talking about the type of nosing that we're going to add onto the stairs okay so like i said we've already prepped the stairs depending on the type of nosings and and your particular situation that part might be a little different so you've got to figure that out with this nosing that we used it's just a nice simple nosing that actually matches the floor quite nicely and it's a rounded edge this particular one isn't made to fit on a typical older staircase where you've got lumber for the for the treads uh in some of the newer staircases they've actually got an osb tread that's rounded already to fit this this this just happened to be what the homeowner liked and it's easily what we could get in this area so that's what we're using they this particular brand and i don't remember the brand offhand we're not sponsored by them or anything but they do have other profiles they do have a square one as well we just couldn't get it in this area so so the basic process is uh getting your plank pieces all cut to fit in my case i like to put the riser piece on first and then the tread piece and then obviously the nose piece goes on last your process could be different you might want to put your tread on and then your riser it's just you're usually going to end up with some kind of a a little bit of an imperfection back in this corner and to me i like the imperfection to only show up when you're walking on the stairs so you physically have got to look down at the stair to see any little gap you might have where if you're approaching the staircase like you would be in the at the camera when you see this you can't see any gap so you're seeing all these nice tight fits that's just my personal preference yours might you might want to do it the opposite way so i think one of the first things we're going to do is we're going to go out to the shop and we're going to pre-cut some of the pieces we're just for the videos purpose we're going to we're going to skip one tread here so it's easier to step down without walking on what we did we're going to go down to these next two and that's what we're going to do for the video so we're going to go and cut a riser for the top here and for this step and then we're going to cut treads for these two okay so we can talk more about that in the shop uh one thing that you will see me using is this jig and uh if you want to see how to make this jig for yourself you can check out our video on that actually we'll put a link in the description underneath this video as well to the video for this so it's just kind of a simple jig and what this jig is made to do is for fitting the the pieces like the riser in the tread pieces this jig is totally adjustable so we can slide it out get any angles you know like if you're for instance on the riser i can stick it in here oops i can stick it in here tighten it up on both ends so i've got both corners sitting down on the tread and sitting against my stringer on both ends and now i can take that to my material and lay it down and that gives me my exact angles if there is any and my length as well all in one shot and basically the same idea on the treads so you'll see me using this jig i just made it out of some scrap in my shop and you can see all that on the other video it's pretty easy to do so anyways i think the next process is we'll step into the garage where we're set up for cutting and we'll go from there okay so we've just popped out to the garage where we kind of have some tools and work surface set up here um so the flooring that we're working with like i said it's a laminate vinyl plank this flooring which a lot of these are do have it now they've actually got a like an under pad already attached on the bottom side this one happens to be foam sometimes they're cork that sort of thing so because on the stairs we're going to glue this down to the stairs to make sure it doesn't slide it's not going to float we need to remove that foam pad now if you're lucky you might be able just to peel it off but in our case we had to use a razor blade and a scraper to scrape it off and we were able to get it pretty good i mean comparably but i still wasn't happy that with this little bit of foam on the back here because we're really supposed to use what's called a pressure sensitive glue to adhere this down i'm i'm just not sure that this is actually going to adhere to that pressure sensitive glue so we're going to use construction adhesive instead i i don't think we're going to have an issue with that but i think it's going to have a better bond to this foam because we still have a little bit of residual on there we tried cleaning it with some solvents and stuff with mixed results and then we weren't sure well with the solvent residue on there was the glue gonna stick to that so i felt better about just scraping off the majority and uh working with what we could some scraped off better than others but uh okay so this is going to be our riser material or it's going to be both our materials riser and treads but we're dealing with the riser first and because i'm putting my riser on first and then butting the butting the tread piece up to it i know because of the thickness of this piece here i've got a little bit of lenience here so on the flooring you can you can see the interlocking splines one's way narrower than the other so what i've been doing is just planning to put the narrow one down so i don't have to cut that one edge when i cut it to height and then i run that against the fence of the saw and get my height okay before before i do that though i'm going to take my guide my template guide and i'm going to mark out the uh the riser length and and edges so i want to make sure i've got my jig orientated the same way that i did on the stairs which is these corners down and this is the bottom edge in my case towards you of the riser material so i want to flush up those bottom corners and basically i'm going to take a knife and score both ends against my guide i'm putting pretty good pressure i made you know three cuts or three scores there same thing i'm trying not to move the guide i'm trying to just let it sit there and i'm going to do the same thing on this end now you've seen in our case we're cutting the risers up against the stringers okay so some stairs are going to be that way you might just have drywall or paneling or whatever you might not be able to see the stringer so whatever you're doing you're cutting up to that finished edge and this guide and this jig will help you a lot with that so once we've scored those panels i don't know if you can see the the cut line there score line possibly i'm not sure but anyways i'm going to slide that over to the end of my bench just maybe an eighth of an inch or so past the edge of the bench just give it a smack just give it a smack like that and it breaks off it actually breaks off pretty cleanly usually because we want it to be clean if it isn't clean if this broke off a little jagged i would just take my knife and kind of back bevel that back edge not cutting the front edge because that's the piece you're going to see up against your wall or your stringer but this this particular flooring with three scores seems to break off pretty nicely okay so now we've already got it cut to fit for our length and our any slope that we might have on our on our stringers now i'm going to cut it to width so i already pre-measured that and that one was uh what was that one that one was six and five-eighths so i'm going to go over to the saw adjust the saw cut it to width and go from there if if i was cutting this much narrower i could theoretically take a straight edge and score that and snap it off in our case we're just cutting a you know half an inch or so off of these or if that so it's really hard to do that so i'm putting it through the saw which is much messier but it it will work and with the saw you can use any any table saw i'm using about a probably a 60 tooth carbide blade and you just you just end up with a lot of this staticky plastic sawdust flying so you'll see it's sticking all over me when i'm done just in case you didn't catch that this narrow edge i'm putting down onto my wood tread so that's the edge i'm putting against the fence and i'm cutting this side off to get my height so okay so we've got our tread cut or our riser cut to height now so i'm just going to blow off all this staticky stuff off of it and then we can go and apply it okay so we're back in the stairwell now and uh we're ready to put on the riser uh i'm gonna do a couple of them here but i just want to talk for a minute this is one of the glues or the glue that i would have used i'm not sponsored again by these guys they don't send us any product or anything but this is what i would have used normally for this but like we talked about just a couple seconds ago with that foam backing not cleaning off 100 i'm just a little leery whether this will actually stick to that and stay stuck so if you're using a glue like this it will let you know what size trowel you need usually it's like a sixteenth by sixteenth by sixteenth you would put it on and uh for most of them read your instructions obviously but for most of them you're going to want to wait till it gets tacky enough that it's when you touch it with you know back your hand it's not pulling off the wood and then at that point you're ready to stick your pieces on so you would stick your pieces on and you would actually use like a rubber roller and roll it really well so it gets embedded in there so what it is is a print pressure sensitive glue so once you've got good contact it's stuck okay in our case i'm a little bit more comfortable i'm that i should use some construction adhesive so we're we're just using this i've done this before for the risers but not necessarily for the treads and i i've had good luck with it and i don't see why it won't work for what we're doing here too and i just have more confidence that that's going to stick to that foam okay so we've got our we've got our tread or our riser and here's that little lip on the bottom i was talking about earlier that we went down so i i want to orientate it the right way i'm going to dry fit it first just to make sure we don't have to do a little trimming or anything so i'm just going to get it in there it's sitting right down on the tread below in my case because of how my nosing comes around i've actually got like an inch to play with here in height so mine don't have to be perfect and for the most part if you're using even a metal nosing or something you're not going to have to be perfect in height so i'm i'm more concerned that i've i've got a nice fit on the ends and i'm not too high because i don't want to be too high obviously and this one looks fine so i can just lay this down i'm going to put some adhesive on there and make sure your your wood back here is all clean and dry obviously some pre doing a pretty good amount probably on the riser you really don't need that much or like that close together but nobody's ever going to accuse me of building anything that isn't well glued together so so with most of these construction adhesives what you want to do is press it into place and pull it off just a little bit just to let it breathe just for you know a minute would be great but you know even 10 seconds or so just helps it to gas off and it it sets a little better so we're going to push it into place just so we get some initial squeeze and flattening of that glue and then i'm gonna you can see it grips pretty good then i'm just gonna pull it away wait a few seconds it lets that gas off and and start the curing process i'm gonna stick it back on so i'm pushing make sure i'm pushed down and i'm pushed well everywhere along here i could be using that same roller i talked about i'll probably bring it out here when i do the treads if i remember but you're just making sure you have good contact so i've got another one down below here i'm gonna put it on too the reason i'm jumping around a bit partially is for the video but partially also is because we're having to go up and down i'm gonna leave every every in our case i'm gonna leave every third tread so we can step up and down without walking too much on the ones we've already done which will mean taking a couple days to do this but it'll just be better for the setup of the glue okay so i'm just going to glue this next one on down here because we're going to need it on as well okay so now i'm going to template the this tread right here so i'm going to use my jig also uh i never mentioned it before but i've got this one edge marked so i always have a reference so i don't get the thing spun around so usually that mark is what i put against the piece that these corners are sitting on you could put left or right on this whatever you want to do so for the treads i'm pushing the jig right back against the riser and then out against the against the stringer okay so i've got that and once i get that out of the way i can also measure the what i need for a distance for the width of the tread and i want to measure it in a few pro well in this case three different spots along here just to see how different it is and in my case i want to be within about a quarter inch of the face of this this is what i'm shooting for i don't have to be again perfect because the nosing is going to cover that so so i think if i went ten and one quarter right across there i'm gonna be good so we'll go out to the garage and make that up okay so we're back out in the garage um i've to make enough width for these treads i've obviously got to use more than one piece because these these factory pieces i think are only like seven inches yeah basically seven inches so i need to put another small strip together uh we had some leftover strips from when the flooring was originally done and they're working out pretty good so that's what we're using so basically i'm just looking at what edges go together for which of these scraps i have and i'm putting this narrower strip to the back of the tread so in that case what i did is i i knew i'm putting this together like that so i cut off the wider lip that was on the edge of this which is going to be the front under the nosing so i've already pushed it through the saw just to get rid of that i'm going to just uh clip these two pieces together like so i'm going to make sure that i can get 10 and a quarter out of it just barely it's almost a perfect fit without going through the saw except for that end so i need to get ten and a quarter i've got the saw set up i'm gonna cut this right now or rip it right now all together like it is just to get down to width then i'll bring it back over here throw the jig on cut and snap the ends off and we're ready to put that piece on i'm cutting the the back edge of this little strip i'm not cutting the front now okay so we're cut to width we're clicked together properly uh this is my back edge that is against the riser so i want to put the back edge of my jig facing that way and just pick a place this is a good spot in my case uh to use any damaged planks that you maybe had because we're cutting off we can cut some off both ends so and you'll notice i'm not flushing up to one end because all the ends will have a factory edge to click together on this flooring as well so i don't want to be you know i i want to get a nice square edge on both ends so flush it up i'm just going to make sure this is on our workbench a little better then i'm going to score along my guide to get the angle if there is any if you didn't have this guide you could measure and and cut on a on a sliding miter saw if you wanted to i just find if you can cut and snap it it's going to be better and it's pretty tough to measure if there is any angle to your you know that you need on the end of these pieces it's pretty tough to measure that angle for everyone where this guide just basically mirrors whatever it is and gives you your length and everything all in one shot so okay so those are breaking really nice and clean all that looks good and uh i think we're ready to install it okay so again i'm just gonna test fit this to make sure it's looking all right before we have glue all over everything if anything it's just a maybe a hair tight at the back corner there so i'm going to i'm just going to trim trim the end so i'm just going to run out to a saw and trim that and then i'll come back okay so i uh i test fit it again it's good now just need to set this down somewhere so i can put some glue on so i'll put the adhesive on here we vacuum this all off make sure we have no chunks underneath it dust okay now we'll try to get it in there without it unsnapping just get it lifted up to let it breathe it's kind of hard to get the back part lifted without unclipping so i'm just getting the front open at least i'm going to grab my roller i'm just going to roll this down nice and tight so just this is just a laminate roller but flooring roller laminate roller all basically the same okay so then we're going to put the next one on and then i'll do a nosing to show you how that works okay so we've got our couple pieces of nosing uh cut here to fit and like i said earlier in the video this nosing's made for a little different application but we're making it work here so because it would have no it in our case it would this part would hang over if this was the front of the front of the step you know this would have been sitting out here hollow probably would have been all right but if you move some furniture and hit that maybe it would have broken i don't know because this particular one's just plastic so i made up these pieces just to go in there that that's all going to glue in there when we put it on to take up that void and and hopefully make it more sturdy so i just wanted to show you with this small piece what we're doing so once i glue that all together it's going to get peeled and stuck into place now the manufacturer recommends taking some 80 grit sandpaper and sanding anything on here that you're going to glue as well as on the face of the of the stairs themselves okay so you have to be a little bit careful that you don't get out too far you know like this in our case this is going to be about an inch and three quarters of a distance from here back to here so i'm going to sand it to about inch and a half so so i'm going to rough all this up so the glue bonds well and they this is what they recommend to glue this on with is a construction adhesive so we're we're sticking with what they suggest um like i said earlier we're not uh sponsored or these guys didn't send us this stuff i don't even know who makes this i thought it might say on this piece we'll put a link in the description in case you're interested if we can find one to this product so it seems pretty good i'm this is the first time i've used it but i like it it matches nice so okay so i'm gonna get all this stuff sanded up and then we'll stick these on so you can see here how it roughs up quite easily compared to where i haven't sanded yet and it doesn't take much effort to do it and of course once you do all that you'll want to wipe that out maybe even with a damp cloth we'll see how the dust comes out of it okay so we've got that all all the dust off there and we've sanded this one top and bottom so first thing i'm going to do is glue my wooden piece in i think i have it cut to length yep stick loop stick that in there then we'll get some glue on this part get some of that excess moved around i'm kind of keeping back from this edge a bit in case it oozes out if it does with this adhesive i'm using like when it's wet i can clean it up with water and a rag if not after that i've got to use a mineral spirits i believe i'll put a little bit on this just kind of making sure i got some everywhere that i can now it's a pretty tight fit i i don't think we showed i actually dry fit them so we know that they fit as long as we didn't mix the two up because one's a little longer than the other so i'm just kind of sticking it on there i'll pull it away a little bit just to air it off make sure my treads back where i want it we're just going to use some masking tape to hold it into place okay so that should do that one and i'll do the same thing on the next one okay that gives you a good idea how you could put some luxury vinyl plank on your stairs with the nosing and everything something i think i might have mentioned it but i don't know if i did for sure so i'm going to just retouch on it you notice we kind of skipped a step really this process in a home that's being lived in you've to give proper access so these aren't sliding around people walking on them too much i'd normally do every second stair and then come back the next day and and do the rest so in this case i kind of forgot about that so we're skipping every sec every third one and then at least the homeowners can get up and down without hopefully falling on their heads and i'll come back tomorrow and finish up um if you keep tuned in to the end of this we'll show you the finished product once all the tape's gone and everything's finished we'll just give you a quick view of what it actually looked like all finished up so far it's going really well so i think it's going to look great and hopefully the homeowners think it does too so smash the thumbs up button down there that you like the video subscribe to our channel and check out any of the links we have in the description of this video younobody's ever going to accuse me of building anything that isn't well glued together so hi welcome to house improvements i'm shannon in today's video i want to show you how i put laminate vinyl plank flooring onto a set of stairs so we've got a set of stairs that were previously carpeted and the homeowner wants to add laminate vinyl plank which you can see back here i've started the process so we had to strip all the carpeting off pull out all the staples the homeowner did a bit of work on squeaks and moans and groans of the existing staircase and we also in our case had to cut off the note or fill in nosings so that we just have a square face on the stairs and you'll see more about that when we get into talking about the type of nosing that we're going to add onto the stairs okay so like i said we've already prepped the stairs depending on the type of nosings and and your particular situation that part might be a little different so you've got to figure that out with this nosing that we used it's just a nice simple nosing that actually matches the floor quite nicely and it's a rounded edge this particular one isn't made to fit on a typical older staircase where you've got lumber for the for the treads uh in some of the newer staircases they've actually got an osb tread that's rounded already to fit this this this just happened to be what the homeowner liked and it's easily what we could get in this area so that's what we're using they this particular brand and i don't remember the brand offhand we're not sponsored by them or anything but they do have other profiles they do have a square one as well we just couldn't get it in this area so so the basic process is uh getting your plank pieces all cut to fit in my case i like to put the riser piece on first and then the tread piece and then obviously the nose piece goes on last your process could be different you might want to put your tread on and then your riser it's just you're usually going to end up with some kind of a a little bit of an imperfection back in this corner and to me i like the imperfection to only show up when you're walking on the stairs so you physically have got to look down at the stair to see any little gap you might have where if you're approaching the staircase like you would be in the at the camera when you see this you can't see any gap so you're seeing all these nice tight fits that's just my personal preference yours might you might want to do it the opposite way so i think one of the first things we're going to do is we're going to go out to the shop and we're going to pre-cut some of the pieces we're just for the videos purpose we're going to we're going to skip one tread here so it's easier to step down without walking on what we did we're going to go down to these next two and that's what we're going to do for the video so we're going to go and cut a riser for the top here and for this step and then we're going to cut treads for these two okay so we can talk more about that in the shop uh one thing that you will see me using is this jig and uh if you want to see how to make this jig for yourself you can check out our video on that actually we'll put a link in the description underneath this video as well to the video for this so it's just kind of a simple jig and what this jig is made to do is for fitting the the pieces like the riser in the tread pieces this jig is totally adjustable so we can slide it out get any angles you know like if you're for instance on the riser i can stick it in here oops i can stick it in here tighten it up on both ends so i've got both corners sitting down on the tread and sitting against my stringer on both ends and now i can take that to my material and lay it down and that gives me my exact angles if there is any and my length as well all in one shot and basically the same idea on the treads so you'll see me using this jig i just made it out of some scrap in my shop and you can see all that on the other video it's pretty easy to do so anyways i think the next process is we'll step into the garage where we're set up for cutting and we'll go from there okay so we've just popped out to the garage where we kind of have some tools and work surface set up here um so the flooring that we're working with like i said it's a laminate vinyl plank this flooring which a lot of these are do have it now they've actually got a like an under pad already attached on the bottom side this one happens to be foam sometimes they're cork that sort of thing so because on the stairs we're going to glue this down to the stairs to make sure it doesn't slide it's not going to float we need to remove that foam pad now if you're lucky you might be able just to peel it off but in our case we had to use a razor blade and a scraper to scrape it off and we were able to get it pretty good i mean comparably but i still wasn't happy that with this little bit of foam on the back here because we're really supposed to use what's called a pressure sensitive glue to adhere this down i'm i'm just not sure that this is actually going to adhere to that pressure sensitive glue so we're going to use construction adhesive instead i i don't think we're going to have an issue with that but i think it's going to have a better bond to this foam because we still have a little bit of residual on there we tried cleaning it with some solvents and stuff with mixed results and then we weren't sure well with the solvent residue on there was the glue gonna stick to that so i felt better about just scraping off the majority and uh working with what we could some scraped off better than others but uh okay so this is going to be our riser material or it's going to be both our materials riser and treads but we're dealing with the riser first and because i'm putting my riser on first and then butting the butting the tread piece up to it i know because of the thickness of this piece here i've got a little bit of lenience here so on the flooring you can you can see the interlocking splines one's way narrower than the other so what i've been doing is just planning to put the narrow one down so i don't have to cut that one edge when i cut it to height and then i run that against the fence of the saw and get my height okay before before i do that though i'm going to take my guide my template guide and i'm going to mark out the uh the riser length and and edges so i want to make sure i've got my jig orientated the same way that i did on the stairs which is these corners down and this is the bottom edge in my case towards you of the riser material so i want to flush up those bottom corners and basically i'm going to take a knife and score both ends against my guide i'm putting pretty good pressure i made you know three cuts or three scores there same thing i'm trying not to move the guide i'm trying to just let it sit there and i'm going to do the same thing on this end now you've seen in our case we're cutting the risers up against the stringers okay so some stairs are going to be that way you might just have drywall or paneling or whatever you might not be able to see the stringer so whatever you're doing you're cutting up to that finished edge and this guide and this jig will help you a lot with that so once we've scored those panels i don't know if you can see the the cut line there score line possibly i'm not sure but anyways i'm going to slide that over to the end of my bench just maybe an eighth of an inch or so past the edge of the bench just give it a smack just give it a smack like that and it breaks off it actually breaks off pretty cleanly usually because we want it to be clean if it isn't clean if this broke off a little jagged i would just take my knife and kind of back bevel that back edge not cutting the front edge because that's the piece you're going to see up against your wall or your stringer but this this particular flooring with three scores seems to break off pretty nicely okay so now we've already got it cut to fit for our length and our any slope that we might have on our on our stringers now i'm going to cut it to width so i already pre-measured that and that one was uh what was that one that one was six and five-eighths so i'm going to go over to the saw adjust the saw cut it to width and go from there if if i was cutting this much narrower i could theoretically take a straight edge and score that and snap it off in our case we're just cutting a you know half an inch or so off of these or if that so it's really hard to do that so i'm putting it through the saw which is much messier but it it will work and with the saw you can use any any table saw i'm using about a probably a 60 tooth carbide blade and you just you just end up with a lot of this staticky plastic sawdust flying so you'll see it's sticking all over me when i'm done just in case you didn't catch that this narrow edge i'm putting down onto my wood tread so that's the edge i'm putting against the fence and i'm cutting this side off to get my height so okay so we've got our tread cut or our riser cut to height now so i'm just going to blow off all this staticky stuff off of it and then we can go and apply it okay so we're back in the stairwell now and uh we're ready to put on the riser uh i'm gonna do a couple of them here but i just want to talk for a minute this is one of the glues or the glue that i would have used i'm not sponsored again by these guys they don't send us any product or anything but this is what i would have used normally for this but like we talked about just a couple seconds ago with that foam backing not cleaning off 100 i'm just a little leery whether this will actually stick to that and stay stuck so if you're using a glue like this it will let you know what size trowel you need usually it's like a sixteenth by sixteenth by sixteenth you would put it on and uh for most of them read your instructions obviously but for most of them you're going to want to wait till it gets tacky enough that it's when you touch it with you know back your hand it's not pulling off the wood and then at that point you're ready to stick your pieces on so you would stick your pieces on and you would actually use like a rubber roller and roll it really well so it gets embedded in there so what it is is a print pressure sensitive glue so once you've got good contact it's stuck okay in our case i'm a little bit more comfortable i'm that i should use some construction adhesive so we're we're just using this i've done this before for the risers but not necessarily for the treads and i i've had good luck with it and i don't see why it won't work for what we're doing here too and i just have more confidence that that's going to stick to that foam okay so we've got our we've got our tread or our riser and here's that little lip on the bottom i was talking about earlier that we went down so i i want to orientate it the right way i'm going to dry fit it first just to make sure we don't have to do a little trimming or anything so i'm just going to get it in there it's sitting right down on the tread below in my case because of how my nosing comes around i've actually got like an inch to play with here in height so mine don't have to be perfect and for the most part if you're using even a metal nosing or something you're not going to have to be perfect in height so i'm i'm more concerned that i've i've got a nice fit on the ends and i'm not too high because i don't want to be too high obviously and this one looks fine so i can just lay this down i'm going to put some adhesive on there and make sure your your wood back here is all clean and dry obviously some pre doing a pretty good amount probably on the riser you really don't need that much or like that close together but nobody's ever going to accuse me of building anything that isn't well glued together so so with most of these construction adhesives what you want to do is press it into place and pull it off just a little bit just to let it breathe just for you know a minute would be great but you know even 10 seconds or so just helps it to gas off and it it sets a little better so we're going to push it into place just so we get some initial squeeze and flattening of that glue and then i'm gonna you can see it grips pretty good then i'm just gonna pull it away wait a few seconds it lets that gas off and and start the curing process i'm gonna stick it back on so i'm pushing make sure i'm pushed down and i'm pushed well everywhere along here i could be using that same roller i talked about i'll probably bring it out here when i do the treads if i remember but you're just making sure you have good contact so i've got another one down below here i'm gonna put it on too the reason i'm jumping around a bit partially is for the video but partially also is because we're having to go up and down i'm gonna leave every every in our case i'm gonna leave every third tread so we can step up and down without walking too much on the ones we've already done which will mean taking a couple days to do this but it'll just be better for the setup of the glue okay so i'm just going to glue this next one on down here because we're going to need it on as well okay so now i'm going to template the this tread right here so i'm going to use my jig also uh i never mentioned it before but i've got this one edge marked so i always have a reference so i don't get the thing spun around so usually that mark is what i put against the piece that these corners are sitting on you could put left or right on this whatever you want to do so for the treads i'm pushing the jig right back against the riser and then out against the against the stringer okay so i've got that and once i get that out of the way i can also measure the what i need for a distance for the width of the tread and i want to measure it in a few pro well in this case three different spots along here just to see how different it is and in my case i want to be within about a quarter inch of the face of this this is what i'm shooting for i don't have to be again perfect because the nosing is going to cover that so so i think if i went ten and one quarter right across there i'm gonna be good so we'll go out to the garage and make that up okay so we're back out in the garage um i've to make enough width for these treads i've obviously got to use more than one piece because these these factory pieces i think are only like seven inches yeah basically seven inches so i need to put another small strip together uh we had some leftover strips from when the flooring was originally done and they're working out pretty good so that's what we're using so basically i'm just looking at what edges go together for which of these scraps i have and i'm putting this narrower strip to the back of the tread so in that case what i did is i i knew i'm putting this together like that so i cut off the wider lip that was on the edge of this which is going to be the front under the nosing so i've already pushed it through the saw just to get rid of that i'm going to just uh clip these two pieces together like so i'm going to make sure that i can get 10 and a quarter out of it just barely it's almost a perfect fit without going through the saw except for that end so i need to get ten and a quarter i've got the saw set up i'm gonna cut this right now or rip it right now all together like it is just to get down to width then i'll bring it back over here throw the jig on cut and snap the ends off and we're ready to put that piece on i'm cutting the the back edge of this little strip i'm not cutting the front now okay so we're cut to width we're clicked together properly uh this is my back edge that is against the riser so i want to put the back edge of my jig facing that way and just pick a place this is a good spot in my case uh to use any damaged planks that you maybe had because we're cutting off we can cut some off both ends so and you'll notice i'm not flushing up to one end because all the ends will have a factory edge to click together on this flooring as well so i don't want to be you know i i want to get a nice square edge on both ends so flush it up i'm just going to make sure this is on our workbench a little better then i'm going to score along my guide to get the angle if there is any if you didn't have this guide you could measure and and cut on a on a sliding miter saw if you wanted to i just find if you can cut and snap it it's going to be better and it's pretty tough to measure if there is any angle to your you know that you need on the end of these pieces it's pretty tough to measure that angle for everyone where this guide just basically mirrors whatever it is and gives you your length and everything all in one shot so okay so those are breaking really nice and clean all that looks good and uh i think we're ready to install it okay so again i'm just gonna test fit this to make sure it's looking all right before we have glue all over everything if anything it's just a maybe a hair tight at the back corner there so i'm going to i'm just going to trim trim the end so i'm just going to run out to a saw and trim that and then i'll come back okay so i uh i test fit it again it's good now just need to set this down somewhere so i can put some glue on so i'll put the adhesive on here we vacuum this all off make sure we have no chunks underneath it dust okay now we'll try to get it in there without it unsnapping just get it lifted up to let it breathe it's kind of hard to get the back part lifted without unclipping so i'm just getting the front open at least i'm going to grab my roller i'm just going to roll this down nice and tight so just this is just a laminate roller but flooring roller laminate roller all basically the same okay so then we're going to put the next one on and then i'll do a nosing to show you how that works okay so we've got our couple pieces of nosing uh cut here to fit and like i said earlier in the video this nosing's made for a little different application but we're making it work here so because it would have no it in our case it would this part would hang over if this was the front of the front of the step you know this would have been sitting out here hollow probably would have been all right but if you move some furniture and hit that maybe it would have broken i don't know because this particular one's just plastic so i made up these pieces just to go in there that that's all going to glue in there when we put it on to take up that void and and hopefully make it more sturdy so i just wanted to show you with this small piece what we're doing so once i glue that all together it's going to get peeled and stuck into place now the manufacturer recommends taking some 80 grit sandpaper and sanding anything on here that you're going to glue as well as on the face of the of the stairs themselves okay so you have to be a little bit careful that you don't get out too far you know like this in our case this is going to be about an inch and three quarters of a distance from here back to here so i'm going to sand it to about inch and a half so so i'm going to rough all this up so the glue bonds well and they this is what they recommend to glue this on with is a construction adhesive so we're we're sticking with what they suggest um like i said earlier we're not uh sponsored or these guys didn't send us this stuff i don't even know who makes this i thought it might say on this piece we'll put a link in the description in case you're interested if we can find one to this product so it seems pretty good i'm this is the first time i've used it but i like it it matches nice so okay so i'm gonna get all this stuff sanded up and then we'll stick these on so you can see here how it roughs up quite easily compared to where i haven't sanded yet and it doesn't take much effort to do it and of course once you do all that you'll want to wipe that out maybe even with a damp cloth we'll see how the dust comes out of it okay so we've got that all all the dust off there and we've sanded this one top and bottom so first thing i'm going to do is glue my wooden piece in i think i have it cut to length yep stick loop stick that in there then we'll get some glue on this part get some of that excess moved around i'm kind of keeping back from this edge a bit in case it oozes out if it does with this adhesive i'm using like when it's wet i can clean it up with water and a rag if not after that i've got to use a mineral spirits i believe i'll put a little bit on this just kind of making sure i got some everywhere that i can now it's a pretty tight fit i i don't think we showed i actually dry fit them so we know that they fit as long as we didn't mix the two up because one's a little longer than the other so i'm just kind of sticking it on there i'll pull it away a little bit just to air it off make sure my treads back where i want it we're just going to use some masking tape to hold it into place okay so that should do that one and i'll do the same thing on the next one okay that gives you a good idea how you could put some luxury vinyl plank on your stairs with the nosing and everything something i think i might have mentioned it but i don't know if i did for sure so i'm going to just retouch on it you notice we kind of skipped a step really this process in a home that's being lived in you've to give proper access so these aren't sliding around people walking on them too much i'd normally do every second stair and then come back the next day and and do the rest so in this case i kind of forgot about that so we're skipping every sec every third one and then at least the homeowners can get up and down without hopefully falling on their heads and i'll come back tomorrow and finish up um if you keep tuned in to the end of this we'll show you the finished product once all the tape's gone and everything's finished we'll just give you a quick view of what it actually looked like all finished up so far it's going really well so i think it's going to look great and hopefully the homeowners think it does too so smash the thumbs up button down there that you like the video subscribe to our channel and check out any of the links we have in the description of this video you\n"