10 ft long stair nose
Hj
2 years ago
Hello, I have a need for long wooden stair noses about 10ft long. Most places only go to 8’. Any suggestions or recommendations on where to get these? I will have them match the flooring
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M Riz
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Replacing carpet with LVT stairs... didn't expect such sloppy stairs
Comments (10)Sigh....carpets hide HORRIBLE surfaces. And you've just discovered another place where this is true - the stairs. *In THEORY (ahem....too much work for most professionals - they would skip over to a surface and be done with it), you can TRIM OFF the slight overlap nose on every single tread to create a perfect 90 deg angle for each riser/tread combo. Then you need to STRIP AND SAND down the white material SITTING on the wood. Please check for lead based paint if the house was built before 1978. (If there is LEAD....move on to full removal/replacement of the tread/risers and leave well enough alone.) Once the wood is PERFECTLY CLEAN (and that means free of the chemical STRIPPER you used to remove the white ?paint?), you can then go ahead and putty all the little staple holes and cracks, etc. Then you sand again. This thing should be as smooth as an Ice Rink! Now you are ready to glue down the vinyl and the nosing. Shouldn't take more than a week. Or you source IDENTICAL thickness wood (pressure treated for this purpose) and remove and replace each and every riser and tread. Be aware....as soon as you TOUCH these things, you need to bring the whole thing up to code. Move ONE piece and you need the whole thing to code. And code means "Finishing Carpenter" level of mastery....and legal everything that goes with the title. If you do this, you might as well have them deal with the banister, etc and have everything moved up to code at the same time - no sense in waiting. If you simply resurface the treads with new carpet, you get away from all of this. If you can resurface using the original material, you should be able to keep everything else as-is. As soon as you remove stuff, and "rebuild" then you are getting into so serious code issues. Personally, I would throw down a stunning carpet that compliments the LVT and leave well enough alone. Make it look handsome by using a runner and then fixing/painting out the treads/risers in a pretty way....but it will involve a huge amount of work. Good luck. Check the paint for lead before you do anything else....See MoreContract Mess up: 9 vs 10 ft ceiling
Comments (7)Agree 100% with what David Cary said. Our current project is a heavy reno of a house with 9' ceilings but with 6'8 head heights for doors and windows, and even with the lower ceiling height 6'8 feels bizarrely low - way too much sheetrock between the top of the windows and the ceilings. In addition to looking weird the rooms are darker as a result. We're pushing all the headers up to 8' in the 9' rooms and 10' in our 11' room. I find it quite bizarre that details like this are offered as adjustable items in the contract. It makes me wonder if they will in fact scale everything else up, or leave you with something oddball like I just described that you'll be unhappy with. Typically the height of the ceiling is something that is integral to the design of the house as it impacts not only the appearance of the rooms from the inside but also the exterior elevations. If you have an upstairs it's also something you have to think about (10' means going up two more risers to reach the 2nd floor - so many 2 storey houses around here are designed to have their second storeys built over 9' sections, and have living rooms with higher ceilings built outside the footprint of the second storey)....See MoreStair nosing for Riva Crystal (eased edge)
Comments (1)@ Jennifer Rosen I am familiar with Riva's best-selling color Crystal select. You made a great choice! I wonder what width you plan to get. We just finished installing 450 sqft 10" in our Hopkins showroom. It is hard to believe how clean Riva can keep the select grade on such a long and wide European White Oak boards and most come in 7' full boards. As for stair nose options, see the squared nose profile attached. I know a few shops in the country who can make your stair noses or treads from actual floorboards. Let me know where you are located. I might find you a shop name in your region....See MoreHelp! what to do with 10 ft ceilings and 6’8” header height
Comments (17)Unfortunately too late to add transom windows. We haven’t been to the house today but it is likely all the lower level windows are in. Also there is a deck on the back of the house on main floor that runs above two of the three large windows on the lower level. The back of house is south facing so will still have some good light. The main floor is now about a foot higher than planned so deck is higher and therefore more light will get deeper into rooms. Seems like the general consensus is not to do trayed ceilings. I really like Cpartist’s suggestion regarding picture rail. That would be easy to do and would break up the large space between windows and ceiling. Would consider lowering ceiling height to 9 ft but I’m afraid that would be a massive undertaking for an area about 1600 sq ft. I really appreciate everyone’s insight and the pictures. Thank you all!...See MoreM Riz
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2 years agoM Riz
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2 years agoHj
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millworkman
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PROUptown Floors
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PROJoseph Corlett, LLC
2 years ago
Contrasting solid surface please. Terrific visibility for safety, tough as nails, repairable, refinishable, sanitary, no grout joints and seams, if any, will be highly inconspicuous.
You don't have a curve, so yours will be less expensive than this was.- PRO
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