Finishing the stairs starts with skirt boards. These are the trim pieces that run down each side of the stairs and to which the treads and risers abut. There are books with lots of fancy calculations for determining dimensions, which I used, but when I swung the ungainly pieces into place, they just didn’t fit [...]
If you need to catch up, click here to read “stairs” part 1: stringer structural stupidity.
A few years back, when I was framing the basement, I had a large load of 2×4s delivered from Smoot Lumber in Springfield. Some of them were warped beyond usability, and I set them aside in my junk pile. My [...]
Many parts of the basement renovation project have induced angst. Only the stairs, however, had the power to produce such constant long-term fretting. As I begin to document that part of the journey, the stair work is done, and I’m reasonably happy with the result. Reaching that result, though, was…
First, a look at the original [...]