Stair Skirt Board

Skirtboards are typically edge glued with color and grain matched woods.

Stair skirt board.

The cutting and installing stair skirts requires some basic carpentry skill and common tools. It s critical that the workmanship is of the highest caliber. Edge glued products resist warp and cup. Staircase skirt boards are installed during the construction or added as a trim feature later.

Step by step how to video on scribing skirt boards into a marble stairway with steel tread nosing. 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. This method works on any stairway. There are several ways to accomplish the task when pre fabrication in a shop is not an option.

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. See more ideas about stairs skirting stairs diy stairs. The current skirt board was installed before the treads so the treads butt up against the skirt board. A finished skirt board on a flight of stairs is one of those tasks in finish carpentry that remains in prominent view always open to critique.

This product is good on one face sanded and ready to be cut to fit. Anyone can do this. How to install a stair skirt board to existing stairs. The current stairs had carpet on them so the gap didn t matter.