All Stair Treads & Risers
This is the whole stair tread range in one place — every interior and exterior tread, every riser cover, every landing tile, and the adhesives that hold them down. If you already know which way your stairs point, the three groups below will get you there faster. If you are still working out what the building needs, start here.
Renovation Stair TreadsStarting at $168.00
What a non-slip stair tread does before a worn step becomes an incident Stairs do not fail all at once. The nose rounds off, the walking surface polishes smooth under thousands of footfalls, and a step that once had grip turns into a slick edge people trust without looking. Non...
What a non-slip stair tread does before a worn step becomes an incident Stairs do not fail all at once....
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What's Actually in the Range
Most of the catalog sorts by material before it sorts by anything else, because material decides where a tread can go and how it behaves underfoot. Three materials carry the range, and each one owns a different set of jobs.
Rubber is the volume workhorse. It grips when wet, absorbs impact, takes abrasion from grit without polishing smooth, and comes in the widest span of colors and surface textures. It covers more commercial stairs than the other two combined, indoors and out.
Vinyl runs thinner and cleans faster. It suits interior stairs where the look matters and the traffic is people rather than carts and equipment — lobbies, offices, apartment common stairs. It is also the closest match to luxury vinyl and resilient flooring already on the adjacent floors.
Metal handles the punishment cases. Aluminum and steel treads, and metal nosings fitted over other materials, go where wheels, tools, snow shovels, or sheer volume would chew through a resilient surface — plant stairs, dock steps, exterior fire stairs, back-of-house runs.
Risers and landing tiles cross all three. A riser covers the vertical face between steps and a landing tile carries the surface across the flat platform, so a flight finishes as one installation instead of new treads bolted onto old everything else.
The Mistake: One Tread for Every Stairway in the Building
Buildings rarely have one kind of stair. A single property might run a public lobby flight, two enclosed egress stairwells, a back stair to the loading area, and an exterior stoop at the side entrance. Ordering one tread for all of them is the most common way a stair project goes sideways.
What follows is predictable. The interior product on the outside steps stiffens and lets go at the nose through the first winter. The heavy exterior tread in the lobby looks industrial in a space that was supposed to look finished. Neither one is a bad product — both are in the wrong place.
The fix costs nothing at the specification stage. Walk the building, list every flight, and note two things per flight: whether it sees weather and what rolls over it. Those two answers sort almost any stair inventory into the right groups before a single price is checked.
Where to Go From Here
Interior Stair Treads
Everything inside the building envelope — stairwells, lobby flights, mezzanines, basement stairs, and the landings between them. Rubber and vinyl stair tread covers lead this group, with matching stair riser covers and landing tiles so a full flight finishes in one material and one color.
Exterior Stair Treads
Anything that takes weather. Standing water, freeze-thaw cycling, UV, and tracked-in salt and grit all shorten the life of an indoor product, so this group runs heavier rubber and metal surfaces built to stay walkable through a winter on stoops, dock steps, deck stairs, and exterior egress runs.
Stair Tread Adhesives
The bond decides how long the installation lasts. The right compound depends on the tread material, the substrate underneath, and whether the stair is wet, dry, interior, or exposed. Specifying it alongside the tread keeps a crew from improvising at the job site.
Three Things to Check Before You Order
Inventory the flights before you inventory the products. Count the steps in each stairway and measure tread depth and width on each one separately. Older buildings routinely run different dimensions floor to floor, and one measurement taken from the lobby stair will not carry through the rest of the building.
Look at what the tread has to bond to. Porous concrete, sealed concrete, wood, and steel pans all behave differently, and a substrate that is crumbling, painted, or still holding old adhesive needs prep before anything new goes down. This is the check that most often changes the adhesive line on the order.
Match the surface to how the stairs get cleaned. A deeply textured tread grips hard and holds grit that a dust mop will not lift. If housekeeping runs a mop and nothing else, a lighter texture stays cleaner and keeps looking better between deep cleans. Heavier texture belongs where the traction genuinely earns it.
Why Mats Inc.
Mats Inc. has supplied commercial flooring and matting since 1964. Sixty years in one category is what makes a page like this possible — the interior surfaces, the exterior surfaces, the risers, the landing tiles, and the adhesives all sourced to work together on the same flight rather than assembled from three suppliers who never spoke.
That matters most on multi-stair jobs, where the lobby flight and the dock steps need different products but the same order, the same delivery, and the same crew. Browse the range here, or go straight to the group that fits, and come back to commercial stair treads if you want the shorter overview.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I choose between rubber, vinyl, and metal?
Answered by Dustin Thompson, Owner & CEO
Start with what crosses the stair. If it is people in shoes, rubber or vinyl both work, and the choice comes down to whether traction or appearance leads. If carts, hand trucks, tools, or equipment cross it, go rubber for the impact absorption or metal for the abrasion resistance. If the stair sees weather, that narrows it to exterior-rated rubber or metal regardless of what the interior stairs got.
We have several different stairways. How do we order for all of them at once?
Answered by Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing
Send us the list. For each flight, give us the step count, the tread depth and width, whether it is interior or exterior, and what the stair is made of now. Photos of the leading edge help more than anything else you could send.
We will come back with the right product per flight and one consolidated order. Multi-building and multi-site programs work the same way, and keeping the color consistent across locations is easier to set up at the start than to correct later.
Can treads be installed without closing the stairwell?
Answered by Dustin Thompson, Owner & CEO
Often, yes — crews commonly work a flight in sections, or take one of two parallel stairwells at a time, so the building keeps a usable route. The limiting factor is adhesive cure time, not the tread itself, and that varies by compound and by how warm and dry the stairwell is. Confirm the cure window before you schedule, because that number decides whether the work fits an overnight, a weekend, or a longer closure.
What does upkeep look like once they are down?
Answered by Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing
Light and routine. Sweep or vacuum the grit off, then damp mop with a neutral cleaner — grit left sitting in the texture is what dulls a surface early, so frequency matters more than effort. Skip harsh solvents and anything abrasive, which can haze rubber and vinyl. Speckled and marbled surfaces stay looking fresh longer between cleanings than solid colors, which is worth weighing on a stairwell nobody cleans daily.
Do stair treads have to meet a code or slip standard?
Answered by Dustin Thompson, Owner & CEO
Requirements come from your local building code and the authority having jurisdiction, and they vary by occupancy type and by where the stair sits in the egress path. Nosing projection, uniform riser height, and slip resistance are the provisions that usually apply. Tell us the occupancy and what the inspector is asking for, and we will send the documentation available for a given product so your architect or code consultant can check it against the requirement.
Can we get treads in a specific color?
Answered by Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing
The standard ranges cover the commercial neutrals well — blacks, grays, browns, and speckled patterns — and several lines run brighter and custom colors for schools, campuses, and buildings working to a palette. A common approach is a contrasting nosing or accent tread on an otherwise neutral flight, which reads as intentional and makes the leading edge easier to see. Tell us the color you are matching to and we will show you what comes closest in the material your stairs need.
By Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing, Mats Inc.