Summary: Stair trim molding confuses some rookie carpenters. They realize that stair trim design is perfected when you take the stair trim piece and run it up the stair stringers, but cutting the required angles causes confusion. If you want to learn how to do stair trim and stair risers trim, then this column might be a great place to start.
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Aimee
13 Feb 2008, 10:55
We are putting a wooden floor in the upstairs of our house. The existing
wooden staircase will not meet the new floor along a flat surface. the top
of the stairs are even with the unfinished subflooring. How do we join the
new floor to the stairs without creating a tripping hazard.
AsktheBuilder
14 Feb 2008, 16:44
Aimee,
I suggest you hire a seasoned finish carpenter to get you out of this mess.
Jared
25 Mar 2008, 19:53
Dear Brain, I am not the best finish carpenter, YET!! I have started my own
handyman business and take jobs as i learn them so to speak. Currently i
just want chair rail going up the stairs of a hallway and up at the top all
down the hallway and into all the rooms. That part is complete and no
problem. Next, I created picture frames basically out of molding and they
are inbetween the floor baseboard and chairrail to creat a design. Those
were simple in the actual hallway, but going down the stairs in order to
make it look good i need to not creat squares or rectangles, but actually
parralelograms i believe and i am having a hard time finding the angle,
once i want the top of the box to run parrallel with the chair rail, and
the other side of the box to run perpendicular with the stair treads if
that makes sense
AsktheBuilder
26 Mar 2008, 20:01
Jared,
Simple. I give some strong clues in this column. Take some straight pieces
of thin trim and make a rectangle but use small wing nuts and bolts at the
corners. Set the bottom on the stringer and make the sides plumb. Tighten
the nuts. This is your pattern. Extrapolate the angles.
Sven Edstrom
16 May 2008, 13:11
I am triming out some stairs in my house with hardwood, and I am wondering
what the standard overhang is for the rounded over stairnose. Is 1/2 inch
appropriate or considered a tripping hazard?
Dwight
21 May 2008, 15:13
Dear Tim, I have a closed stair case and would like to know how to make the
baseboard that runs along the wall next to the treads meet the height of
the base board at the top and bottom of the stairs and the landing.
cody
16 Jun 2008, 22:21
hello.
sved, in canada the national building code states maximum 25mm (1") nosing.
your minimum run should be 210 plus an additional 25mm nosing (from face of
the stair riser material to face of nosing material.) however your run is
probably higher than that.
according to recent building code, 25mm nosing is considered good practice.
this is the maximum size. however it should not be rounded over or bevelled
25mm from the face of the nosing.
Gary Bunce
20 Jun 2008, 23:21
Our lower level has stained trim, our upper level has painted trim. The
stair joining the levels is stained so the stained trim will meet the
painted trim at the top of the stair. More precisely, the trim(stained) on
the stair stringer(stained) angles up the stair, then becomes horizontal
for a couple of inches at the same level as the painted upper baseboard
trim(4" wide). How do I join the two? Just butt join? Should I use a narrow
block that stands slightly proud? The trim is an ogee shape.
spooh
30 Jun 2008, 23:07
Paneling was removed from staircase.Drywall cut around the steps as flush
as possible. Still does not look neat. Is their a special trim or technique
to straighten this out? Thanks
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