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Carpeted stairs with no stair skirt board.
It occurred to me only after seeing this that the problem is no stair skirting.
I was out of town during the installation.
When we first moved into our new house i knew the first thing that needed to be addressed was the steps leading upstairs.
We were planning on sanding and painting the stair skirt board.
I recently had maple hardwood floors and stairs installed replacing carpet.
The builder installed the stair crooked so there are shims actually the trim from the floor used as shims on the sides of the stairs.
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5 8 drywall needs to be attached to the bottom of the stairs for fireproofing.
For a simpler appearance cut a skirt board from a solid plank of wood.
Diy stair trim my stairs look 100 better with this faux stair skirt board added since adding traditional trim wasn t an option.
Maximum riser height should be no more then 8 appears you are more.
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This board will slide between the wall and stairs and have a straight edge on top.
We manufacturer over 150 different skirt trim boards.
You may inherit a situation where your home s stair builder decided to skip the skirt the protective one by 12 that protects the wall where it abuts the stairs and constructed the treads and.
If you want to diy this type of molding the most difficult part will probably be cutting mortises into the skirt board to accommodate your treads and risers.
When i returned i was not pleased with the unsightly gap between the stairs and the wallboard.
Minimum 4 inches from the bottom of the stringer to where the intersection of your tread riser intersect looks very close on this one 4.
We had the upstairs floors professionally re finished leaving just the stairs.
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I want to put new treads on these stairs which are finished wood so that there is no visible gap between the end of the stair tread and the wall or skirt board.