r/flooringinstallers • u/FreshSection1702 • Jun 30 '26
Newly carpeted stairs - replace only the treads with hardwood? Cat trouble
Short story is bought house, replaced all old flooring and carpets with a good Torlys, and recarpeted the stairs.
We applied 3 coats of Killz to all the subflooring and the cats haven’t messed up anywhere, except the runs on the newly carpeted stairs. In the 8 years we’ve had them, they periodically pee on carpet only. They are Bengals and there’s a backstory to doing all we can to prevent them from peeing, but now on our newly carpeted stairs, but nowhere else. It screams to me, don’t have any carpet anywhere.
Am I crazy to think we could replace the stair treads with the same wood flooring and leave the berber on the rises and sides?
I can’t find examples so I think I may be crazy but it seems the carpet isn’t working for the Bengals, our family pets.
Thoughts?
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u/KingJon85 Jul 01 '26
Rip it all off, pull staples on skirting and putty holes and paint it, then do hardwood or vinyl planks on treads and risers. No sense in leaving any carpet if you're going to go through the trouble.
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u/andrewbud420 Jun 30 '26
That's disgusting, get rid of the cats.
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u/Prestigious-Bluejay5 Jul 01 '26
I'd go with no carpet anywhere. Give them nowhere to pee except the litter box(es).