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I have some hardwood floor steps to finish with baseboards, I was planning to finish the stair risers and runs with baseboards, however the stair treads have a nose that sticks out about 1/2″ to 3/4″. I believe I must cope the baseboards. The reason I am doing this is to hide the drywall that was cut to get the bottom step in place. Does this sound right? Do you have any other suggestions. Thank you
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If I understand your problem correctly, my suggestion would be to cut the stair tread nosing back flush with the riser and the thickness of the base so the base slides by it. A tight fit will be easier to achieve this way. Walk good david
*Here's what I would do. It is common practice to cut in a trim stringer after you stairs are built. Notch the stair tread/nosing so that a 1"x12" can be cut to fit against the tread and riser and lay flat against the wall. You can lay out the trim stringer, with a square and stair gauges, the same way that you layed ou your rough stringer/carriage, just in reverse. after you cut it out with a power saw set it in place and scribe it to fit nice. You can scribe it from the begining and skip but this is hard to do. I made a special marking gauge/scribe to do this that works really well but would not go to the trouble of making one to do this job just one time. After you have a good fit cut the top and bottom of the stringer so that it will be the same height as the baseboard that will run into it from the level floor.