- 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
What stairs looks like
What to look at: The nosing line, the returned tread ends, and whether the stair matches the floor it lands on.
Illustrative rendering, not documentary job photography. We will not put a manufactured before-and-after in front of you.
Where we take stairs
Pins are service coverage and published bands, not a record of past jobs. Open one for the local band and what we take on there.
Stairs
Hardwood Stairs across the GTA
- Municipalities
- 32
- Core
- 20
- We travel
- 12
- Worked examples
- 1
- Studio & workshop — Sterling Road. Stair components are built here, then fitted on site.
- Core service area — Free on-site measure for any qualified hardwood, stair or railing job.
- Extended range — We travel here for stair packages, whole-home installs and refinishing — not a single-room repair.
- Worked example — A specification we build to, pinned at the municipality centre. Not a client record and not an address.
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Worked examples on this map
- Oakville estate staircaseStairs, Southeast Oakville
Worked examples are specifications this shop builds to, pinned at the municipality centre — not a client record, not an address, and not a claim that a job happened on your street.
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.
What this job runs on
The equipment classes this work depends on, and what a shop without each one does instead. Worth reading before you compare quotes.
- Stair fabrication: saws, jigs and templatesThe bench work that makes a staircase millwork rather than flooring laid on steps — templates, a mitre saw, a table saw and a tread jig.
- Railing anchorage: through-bolts and structural fixingThe hardware and the method that make a guard resist a real lateral load instead of merely standing there.
Commissioned illustration of the machine class, not a photograph of our own equipment.