Treads

Remember these stairs? 

The ones that I have had covered in Rosen paper since kitchen remodeling started in January?

Well, with Bryna out of the house (these are high on my priority list, not hers), I tackled them this weekend, not sure who won, I am pretty sore.

So I take off one of the coverings, and I am thinking, Whole Schmoley this look rough. Do they all look this way.  

So I took off another covering, and why yes, yes they did all look really rough.

I blocked off the two ends of the stair way with plastic and the sanding started.  

I had 80 grit and 120 grit sand paper. I think that I got through the 80 on Saturday.  (I took a 6 hour break to go watch some sailboat racing on Pewaukee Lake) 

The 120 grit went a lot faster as I wasn't using it to remove paint. Then I used up the last of the high gloss finish. I still had plenty of satin left, so I decided to do the last 3 coats in satin.  One of my hopes is that because it has more particles in it it might help smooth over more imperfections.

The 3rd coat went on a 8pm, so that meant no walking on the stairs until ~10pm.  At 10pm I was having difficulties getting off of the couch.

The stairs look way better than what I though they were going to on Saturday, but seeing them from 5 ft away instead of 12 inches might be helping that perspective. 

One more coat to put on tonight.