What is the level between the floor and staircase meeting?
Level is always an requirement of most the jobs, especially in flooring. But, we usually saw the job have an ugly reducer or T-cap between floor and the nosing of the stair. There are many reasons for those, one of them is the different high between the floor and the nosing of the stair, from thickness of the old hardwood to the new hardwood.
How to have the perfect level for the floor and stairs’ nosing?
Before installing the flooring, we should check the level of the exist floor (that means the floor now is ready to install the new hardwood) and stair, there are two cases.
First, this is usually go with the new install laminate or vynal flooring, if the floor is lower than the nosing 1/4” is okay, you should gradually upgrade the floor (by shim or carton paper) until it meets (stuck) under the laminate nosing.
Second, this is usually go with new laminate and hard wood flooring installation, the old floor is parquet is usually lower than the new hardwood or laminate, in this case you need to take off anything stay on the nosing and do the upgrade the nosing to meet the level with the floor by cutting the nail and glue under the nosing, push up to the level and stable it by PL glue and finish nail.
If you did not have experience you could not level the floor the gradually going up, make it looks naturally and walk comfortably.
In the second case, it is easy to damage the nosing and the drywall foundation, plus it hard to stable the nosing after upgrading so you could not install the post properly.
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