What we walk into in Newmarket
Century homes around Main Street South, 1980s–2000s detached stock through Glenway and Stonehaven, and newer infill. Builder-grade carpeted flights are the default in anything after 1985.
Carpet-to-oak conversions, whole-floor refinishing in occupied family homes, and railings brought up to current code.
How we specify stairs here
- 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.
Jobs Newmarket keeps calling us for
- Family-home stair conversions
- Occupied-house refinishing
- Railing replacement and code upgrades
Stairs in Newmarket — questions
Looking for the full service detail rather than the Newmarket view? Hardwood Stairs covers method, materials, and warranty. For everything we do in this city, see hardwood flooring in Newmarket.