What we walk into in Pickering
1970s–90s subdivisions through Amberlea and Liverpool, older lakefront stock around Frenchman's Bay, and thousands of new units at Seaton that arrive with the cheapest stair the builder could specify.
Carpet-to-oak stair conversions, main-floor engineered over 1980s subfloors, and matching new work to twenty-year-old red oak.
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 Pickering keeps calling us for
- Builder carpet stair conversions
- Seaton pre-occupancy upgrades
- Bay-area lakefront refinishing
Stairs in Pickering — questions
Looking for the full service detail rather than the Pickering view? Hardwood Stairs covers method, materials, and warranty. For everything we do in this city, see hardwood flooring in Pickering.