Cleaning your stair treads is important for ensuring proper friction for stairway traffickers. Tread and nosing covered in dirt, grease, grime, or build-up may not provide appropriate slip-and-fall prevention.Use the following steps to maintain your stair treads and keep your staircases safe for...
Pour the concrete to form stairs. Schedule pours to allow safety stair treads to be installed quickly before initial set occurs. Make sure you have the required number of safety treads before pouring concrete. WARNING: THE USE OF VERY LARGE AGGREGATE OR CONCRETE WITH A VERY LOW SLUMP WILL MA...
How can you fix a loose rail or post? Secure loose newels to the staircase or floor framing using hefty metal connectors, making sure the newel is vertically plumb. Access the anchoring point through the ceiling underneath or by removing flooring on a stair landing. ...
Hardwood stair treads add the look of elegance to any stairway, along with a warm natural feel that goes well with any decorating decisions in your home. Over time, though, consistent stair use will scratch the stair treads, making them appear dull and dirty. Having the stairs refinished by...
press down and lift up to lift the dirt directly off. Never scrub to dry these damp areas or you may drive the dirt deeper into the shoe rather than remove it. Repeat as needed over the entire uppers. This is the painstaking and slow part of the job, but the more you clean and blo...
Before adding our sisal runner, we decided to paint the stair treads a warm gray to cover up some discoloration in the stain. We usedthis Porch & Floor Enamelin Requisite Gray by Sherwin-Williams. It didn’t require a primer and has held up great!
Below: Stairway uses also find it easier to maintain balance while looking down at the stair treads when ascending than when descending the same stairs. Below: a youngster uses hands, knees, and feet to climb tall treads that are still taller for a child than an adult. Notice that those ...
While the old newel locations worked fine for our stair design, they did require notching the newel bases to fit over the treads, which presented an extra hurdle during installation. For the upper newel (also called the “landing newel”), some dissimilar trimwork on each side of the post ...