Hello all. When we left our heroes they were on the precipice of a threshold...let's pick up the story.
With our board routered we cut it to fit at the top of the stairs and used our sunken screws + dowel rods trick. Can you tell it didn't look rounded before?
Actually before we did this work we painted the risers with primer plus two coats of semi-gloss white. Since we wanted to keep the treads nice and clean we used painters tape to protect them. Working in such a small space (a tread is only about 1x3 feet) it can be a little difficult to maneuver. To quote the taper, doing this was "a pain in the patootie" that took much longer than you think and about the same amount to get it all off afterward.
With the top step all set we could turn back to the lower landing. Unlike above we started with the bullnose edge piece because that acted like a door threshold to give us a straight edge.
After that it was a matter of nailing down our precut (one size fits all) boards.
Oh yeah, the little closet needed flooring as well.
That left the first step as the final step (kinda ironical). The length was fine, but we had to decide how to get around the irregular parts on the right side and what to do around the corner.
To solve the first we cut a bit of the white trim to give us simpler angles and then used the jigsaw to cut notches out of the tread to fit.
Then we got a little fancy because we realized it would look a lot better for there to be a rounded edge around the corner. That required more practice because as noted before the treads are 1-inch thick. Fortunately we had a lot of spare ends that we'd cut off of our 4-foot treads to fit our 3-foot stairs. We got it to the point that you could hardly tell the difference between our edge and the one that the factory made along the front.
Then we secured it as we had all the other treads.
And here's how the entire landing looked.
There's still a good bit of sanding and finishing, but we're pleased with the progress so far.
Until next time.
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