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Old 10-06-2016, 05:16 PM   #1
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My new, and cheap, step rugs

Following what another poster presented in that he made his own step rugs, I did mine also. I have two (2) sets of the curved front steps as I have a door to access the bath, so that's six rugs I made. The first one was a door mat purchased at Home Depot for about $2.50 to see how this would work out. It worked very well. When I went back to buy more of these mats there were no more. They had sold 22 of them the day after I bough mine, weird huh. The sales guy showed me some material that they had on a roll and sold by the running foot. The material was somewhat the same but ran the opposite way of the mat I bought. The amount I would need calculated to be a just a bit more than what I paid for the mat I had bought just two days earlier. The sales guy called his supervisor to have me tell him what I was going to do with that material and the sales guy asked his supervisor to give me a discount to make the material the same price as the mat. He agreed so I bought enough material to finish the job. I used black wire ties that I had to tie them on and I'm hoping they may stretch just a bit and I will tighten them up a little more. After all was finished I figured that I had less than $3.00 in each step rug. I'm one that likes to make anything I can for myself so this project was a winner. My next project? As you can see in the photo I'm using the yellow leveling blocks to firm up the bottom step. I'm going to make a threaded leveling post for each side of both sets of bottom steps.
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Old 10-06-2016, 06:16 PM   #2
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Can you take a picture of how the carpet is attached underneath? I love your idea and the look!


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Old 10-06-2016, 07:22 PM   #3
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Yep, just made a post-em note to do that
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Old 10-07-2016, 07:05 AM   #4
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I usually buy a roll of outdoor carpet from ACE. It is about 12-15 feet long and just the right width for my steps. Cut it to size.....and get some long springs to attach them under the steps.
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Here's how I attached the rugs to the steps. I just cut the material to fit, installed grommets and used black wire ties to hold them on. I have not cut the wire ties yet as I'm hoping that with use next weekend the material will stretch a little and I can re-tighten the wire ties. The best buy I found, surprisingly, on the grommets was at Home Depot. They had a package of like 24 grommets for less than $5. I already had the tools to make the holes and to crimp them on.
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Old 10-07-2016, 02:08 PM   #6
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Indoor/Outdoor carpet tiles have worked great for us 4+ yrs.
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Indoor/Outdoor carpet tiles have worked great for us 4+ yrs.
How are these carpet tiles attached?
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Old 10-07-2016, 02:45 PM   #8
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How are these carpet tiles attached?
They have self adhesive on the back. Just cleaned the steps with acetone, fitted each tile to the steps, cut to fit and peeled off the back and pressed them down. One tile was large enough to cover 2 steps. Bought a box of 24 for $11 as they were discontinued @ Lowes.

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Here's how I attached the rugs to the steps. I just cut the material to fit, installed grommets and used black wire ties to hold them on. I have not cut the wire ties yet as I'm hoping that with use next weekend the material will stretch a little and I can re-tighten the wire ties. The best buy I found, surprisingly, on the grommets was at Home Depot. They had a package of like 24 grommets for less than $5. I already had the tools to make the holes and to crimp them on.
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looks good

I had not thought about zip ties, but its a good solution.

You might need to replace the zip ties on the top step (once folded in that is) once a year - the rope I use gets very faded due to the sun exposure during storage. When I've used zip-ties outside in other projects the sun makes them brittle.
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I agree that zip ties will deteriorate exposed to outside elements. But they're cheap, like me 😂
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They have self adhesive on the back. Just cleaned the steps with acetone, fitted each tile to the steps, cut to fit and peeled off the back and pressed them down. One tile was large enough to cover 2 steps. Bought a box of 24 for $11 as they were discontinued @ Lowes.

http://www.lowes.com/pd/12-Pack-18-i...1-6cda931d8e89

TrafficMASTER Ribbed Gunmetal Texture 18 in. x 18 in. Carpet Tile (16 Tiles/Case)-CP44N4716PK - The Home Depot
OldCoot, Will these carpet tiles peal off pretty easy if you need to change them out?
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OldCoot, Will these carpet tiles peal off pretty easy if you need to change them out?
I would imagine they would, haven't tried and they've been down for over 4 yrs. If I wanted to change them, I'd grab my heat gun and heat the bottom side of the step to make sure they would come up easily.
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That is a good idea you have there OldCoot, and affordable
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OldCoot, thanks for the idea. We just finished installing the peel and stick carpet tiles and are extremely pleased. [ATTACH]
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Indoor/Outdoor carpet tiles have worked great for us 4+ yrs.
This is a great idea. Especially for those of us with fuzzballs that potentially can get their nails caught in the cutouts of the steps. I covered it all with nonskid but it's easy to poke holes in it when little rocks are stuck to the footwear.
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I agree that zip ties will deteriorate exposed to outside elements. But they're cheap, like me 😂
Check around electrical supply dealers and ask about metal zip ties. You can fold them over a bit before cutting the excess off and if need to tighten up later ~ just unfold and pull with pliers, not your bare fingers!
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