Lay a towel over top of the strip.
Laminate transition top of stairs.
The risers go on next.
There are many situations that you will need to know how to install laminate flooring transitions.
How to install laminate flooring transitions.
Set the laminate flooring transition piece over the strip so the tongue of the piece fits into the groove of the strip.
Check the level of the nose and tap the piece down if necessary until it is completely flat against the stair.
Or you can have laminate on the stairs and need to finish the carpet up to the top stair of laminate.
Move back to the transition strip.
I would use a square edge transition and butt the vertical edge of the transition up against the top stair.
The carpeting should reach up to the top stair riser.
These are very important to use.
The new stair nose cannot be installed with an overhang.
Like icing on a cake transitions are typically the last materials to complete the floating floor project.
The riser must come flush with the surface of the tread and the stair nose which goes on last curls around the top of the riser and either fits flush against the laminate.
Most of the stairs have an overhang that may need to be cut off.
Step 1 examine the carpeted steps.
Or the space beneath the hang can be filled in with wood.
Floating floors transitions and trim complement the flooring and provide a safe durable way to create expansion contraction space between areas and lead to other existing floors in the home.
With the laminate being lower than the top stair its not a good idea to use a t mold as it would be on a slant.
Installing a laminate stair nosing over the top step of the carpeted stairs will tie the stairs into the laminate flooring and make the transition look seamless.
Most often the top stair will involve installing a stair nose.
Their purpose is to cover the edge of the laminate flooring where it meets another floor or where it will end and still provide the expansion gap that is needed.
I m not sure how even that would be with the top stair.
The stair nose molding will then cover the top edge of the carpeting.