My staircase is curved from top to bottom. I will need to give that some more thought. You’d have to build out the 1/4″ plywood 1/2″ at the wall on the treads and risers and the rake line of the skirt. I like to have at least 1 to 1&1/2 “ beyond the nosing for carpet to butt against. The blue tape is a good idea. It either stands alone against the wall along the closed-end of your stairs, or you can run your regular baseboard along the top of it to create an unbroken line of trim from floor to floor. Baseboard trim around each step is another common alternative to a stair skirt. There’s no calculations involved, or required. This project took longer than I expected, but I am happy how it turned out. However I remain convinced that Norm’s method is quicker, one scribe, one cut – move on. Don Zepp showed them to me . I’m a fifth generation carpenter but no longer do it for a career. It’s also pretty surprising how much material you can get free if you’re willing to scrounge through a lumber yards dumpster.Often once or twice a year when they do inventory they throw away all kinds of stuff that you wouldn’t be able to afford to let students practice on if you had to pay for it. If you go slow and keep pressure down on the saw it does a good job. Pat, If you scribe the skirt carefully and cut accurately in my opinion there’s no need. I bought a primed 1×8 already and hoping that the finished stair tread, which is 1/2″, will allow me to use the 1×8. The Skirtboard stair part which is also called stair stringer connects the stair tread to the riser and is an integral part to any long lasting stairway creation. This was a firm quote job, not by the hour. Features. It may be necessary to use some type of “hook” to pull as many carpet fibers out from under the skirt. Use as deck trim, stair raisers and deck skirts for a long-lasting, beautifully finished look. The one concern I have had with simply stacking the baseboards on top of the skirting was the overall height of the combined moldings, would it be to much? No reason you can’t scribe skirtboards out of 1/4″ material. Over the years, this has been a great technique to know! I cut and install the skirt boards first. Placed total feet needed in quantity box when ordering. Any appliance store should be able to get you a refrigerator box. In a recent remodel, Forrest McCanless, had to put in a skirtboard the hard way—with the treads and risers already in place. Great article Norm. I then cut and trimmed with a jig saw and oscillating tool. We went back and forth a few times and his spirit was one of wanting to get it perfect. You align the board vertically parallel to where you want the edge to land after you’ve cut out the scribed section. Thanks Norm, Can you post a picture of the whole flight, particularly where the bottom stringer bears on the floor. SDS. To scribe skirt board over installed risers and treads, start with a straight skirt board laid on top of the points of the treads with the bottom corner against the finish or sub-floor, and the top corner above and beyond the top tread nosing. I’m glad you ‘got it’ and used that skirt board method! Best wishes. And it allows for the expansion and contraction of the solid skirt board. If the stairs are unfinished, see if you can detach them from the wall far enough to slide a skirt board behind. Ha, i am a week too late reading this article! If you use a pencil, use a #3. What’s going on?? Moderator: please let me know if the links are correct, this is a shot in the dark for me :D thanks. For the next 13 years he was self-employed in residential and light commercial construction, building additions, homes and whatever came along. MDF is easy to cut and is widely available at most big box home reno stores. Nevertheless, taking proper measurements without a stair skirt can be … (The top and bottom stairs are a slightly different height than the rest. It’s one of the reasons I’m still enthusiastic about being a tradesman after 45 years. Joseph, However it is often difficult to see a pencil line on stained material particularly if it has a gloss of any type on it. Now onto my biggest set of stairs (13 of them). Just set your oak scriber sticks slightly more that the highest riser and slightly longer that the longest tread. This makes perfect sense now and I will be putting this to practice very soon. I used this technique today to install skirt boards on both sides of an exterior concrete stair on the entryway of an old victorian in San Francisco. Thanks for your encouragement. I am going to try to tackle this project very soon as I hate how my stairs look now. Tread length is 9 1/4″ and rise 8 3/4″ both vary slightly but these are the max measurements for both. Looking for a change of pace, in August 2010 Norm went into business at age 61. I would make a template for the lower section out of 1/8″plywood, do the scribing and cutting and do a test fit. Typically, skirtboards are sandwiched between the stair stringer and the wall, and are installed before the treads and risers.

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