- Retread carpeted stairs with solid oak, maple, or walnut treads
- Box newels, open risers, floating stringers, and bullnose starts
- Matched species and stain to the adjacent hardwood floor
- Rise/run, nosing projection, and guards detailed to Ontario Building Code
Stairs are where cheap flooring companies get exposed. A 3/4" floor glued to a 5/8" plywood tread, a painted MDF riser next to a $14/sq ft oak floor, a nosing that trips the building inspector — we see it every week in the GTA.
Green Hardwood builds and installs hardwood stairs as a system: treads, risers, stringers, scotia, nosing, and the first-floor landing, all in the same species and finish as the floor — or in a deliberate contrast, usually walnut against white oak.
The most requested job in 2026 is converting builder-grade carpet stairs in Vaughan, Markham, and Milton new builds into solid oak box stairs. We pull the carpet, inspect the structure, sister anything that flexes, and install solid treads with returned ends on the open side.
Ontario Building Code governs rise, run, nosing, guards, and graspable handrails. We do not install a beautiful stair that fails inspection. If your designer wants a 6" run because it 'looks floating,' we will say no and show the drawing that will pass.
Related GTA work
Oakville estate staircase
Custom walnut staircase, box newels, iron balusters, 32 steps across three floors.
How we do it
The assemblies behind this service, documented step by step.
Carpet-to-hardwood stair retread
The volume stair job in Vaughan, Markham, Milton, and Brampton new builds.
Custom box stair build
A hardwood stair built as millwork, not as leftover flooring standing on end.
Open-riser steel and oak stair
Oak treads on a steel carriage — only when the openings and the deflection pass.