We have a wooden staircase in our new home that turns about 10 stairs up. The platform at this turn is, let’s say, 3 feet by 3 feet. Should we have oak type treads cut and stained to match the banister and stair treads…or use the prefinished flooring that’s on the first and second floors on this platform?
Thanks all.
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I personally prefer to match it to stair treads, but it really is preferance
I'm just sayin'
We normally finish with a nosing on the open end and finish with flooring.
Flooring, with a border around the open ended parts, usually treads (ripped down to width of flooring) for the border (nosing) and you have to make a spline to get the flooring to lock in the right way, and it seems usually the tread materal is just different enough in thickness that you gotta fart around with it to make the top flush with the flooring.
Edited 10/29/2008 9:59 pm ET by danno7x
"it seems usually the tread materal is just different enough in thickness that you gotta fart around with it to make the top flush with the flooring."That's funny right there...I thought it was just in my world.Zoe25-as the others have said-it's a floor...and I concur...match the
1st and 2nd flooring.silver