Engineered wood for staircase
AJCN
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engineered wood on stairs, adhesive problem
Comments (5)Thank you... and yes... I Did it! I managed to pry off the bullnose pieces without touching the planks, and only one of the bullnose pieces cracked a little. I think some good wood glue and clamps will take care of that. What I did was put a small piece of of the flooring set vertically underneath the end of the bullnose. Put a pry bar underneath it and gentle and with patience pried pushing up the bullnose along the front edge, little by little until the bond with the glue broke, and then I started to hear the nails creak as they came up....See MoreDifferent flooring for different rooms?
Comments (12)I've been in a lot of show homes lately. Often they have a beautiful laminate or engineered wood floor. And then you get to the stairs, and you can't just lay the engineered wood on the stair, because the cut edge isn't pretty. So they've got a plastic edge on every stair to cover the edge of the flooring material. IMHO, it's like a flashing light that screams "this is not real wood flooring!" And it ruins the effect of the overall floor. But they do it in show homes, so apparently I'm alone in noticing that. On the other hand, I've been in a lot of builder show homes lately that obviously needed to hire a designer. The expensive part of wood on stairs is the edge of each tread. It needs to be shaped and finished. The painted riser is just an effect, less wood look, highlights the wood tread....See MoreSolid wood or plywood treads under engineered wood flooring?
Comments (1)It probably makes no difference structurally. It might be easier to use plywood in that it comes in different thicknesses so it would be easier to achieve the correct height of each riser....See MoreLay engineered wood floor over existing engineered wood floor?
Comments (6)Thanks all. We removed the floor. Unfortunately as expected, that exposed more of a mess. Luckily, no "damage" to subfloor per say, but it looked like the previous folks who installed the floor used leveling "float" on pretty much the entire 700 sqft and in some place as thick as almost 1.5 inches. This made it very difficult to remove the layers of flooring (combination of engineered hardwood glued down and some solid wood nailed down to plywood, which was glued and nailed down to "leveling float", which was poured over OSB subfloor). The demo guy tried to get to the OSB subfloor as best he could but he stopped after 2 days of demo and when the OSB was starting to get damaged as it came up with some of the float. We have now moved on to filling the 3 very low areas with some plywood and then pouring self leveling float over the entire floor to try to fill in all to "holes" that were created by trying to pull up the previous float. I guess I am officially welcomed to home ownership....See MoreAJCN
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