Charlie: Joe in Oak Forest says, “I have ceramic tile throughout my house except for the carpeted staircase. Now, if I wanted to use something besides carpet, what would you recommend, Tom?”
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Tom: You can us anything you want. You can use tile if you want to match it. You can use wood. You can use some of the laminate floors, the engineered floors. That doesn’t matter.
Charlie: You think he’s talking about his floors in general, or you think he’s talking about the stairs?
Tom: The stairs. You still can use anything you want.
Charlie: You can use laminate on the stairs?
Tom: Oh yeah, they make … I’ll tell you this, it ain’t cheap. Okay? They make all the little part, most of the floor companies that do stairs.
Charlie: The risers and …
Tom: Oh yeah, but it’s a super … Every part is $5 dollars, and then all of a sudden, you have $1,000 dollars worth of stuff.
Charlie: It’s like the difference between motor oil and marine oil.
Tom: Yeah, right.
Charlie: It’s the same thing.
Tom: Yeah, but you can do anything you want. I’ll leave it at that.
Charlie: Okay, but what would you recommend? What would you want on yours?
Tom: I don’t know. I’d have to see his house to really make a design decision. My house, I have carpet, because carpet goes down to the laminate floor. I had a house in Lake Placid that had the hardwood treads …
Charlie: Sure.
Tom: … and then you had the white risers. That’s the old style. So there’s so many different styles of things you can do.
Charlie: It’s a shame we can’t think of somebody we could send him to who might know about this.
Tom: Stair Man.
Charlie: No, wood floors and stuff, I can’t …
Tom: Oh, he can call Texas Floors.
Charlie: Oh, there it is!
Tom: He’s the one to know what he wants.
Charlie: Yeah, but …
Tom: Once he knows, Texas Floors is the way to go.
Charlie: Well, and Texas Floors might be able to give him some advice on products and stuff like that.
Tom: Oh, sure. Home Show Pro.
Charlie: Home Show Pro. You’ll find them at homeshowradio.com.