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Oct 29, 2010, 04:06 PM
Ok this is or was one of our specialities.
With stairs you have the "going" and the "riser"
The going, is the flat part, and this overlaps the riser, usually by about 1inch ( 25mm )
Therefore you need to batten out the riser part, just under the bullnose part, and at the bottom of the riser. So two parallel pieces of wood, glued and screwed into place. This helps you to square off the riser to the tread.
Because it is a staircase you MUST glue the laminate flooring to the actual stairs, we use a high grab construction silicone. Commonly used by window and door manufacturers, with little shrinkage, and hi-grab.
Now cut your pieces of laminate flooring and start at the very top tread of the stair case, and fix the laminate to the vertical risers, then add a proprietary matching laminated stair nosing, www.quickstep.com make these, we glue drill and fix these into place.
Then fit your tread pice of laminate, and glue into position, clipping it under the profile of the nosing strip.
Work your way down the stairs.
This site if our old business site ( it is my website ) haven't touched it for years though, here is the finished product: http://fabfloor.co.uk/laminatestairs.htm
With stairs you have the "going" and the "riser"
The going, is the flat part, and this overlaps the riser, usually by about 1inch ( 25mm )
Therefore you need to batten out the riser part, just under the bullnose part, and at the bottom of the riser. So two parallel pieces of wood, glued and screwed into place. This helps you to square off the riser to the tread.
Because it is a staircase you MUST glue the laminate flooring to the actual stairs, we use a high grab construction silicone. Commonly used by window and door manufacturers, with little shrinkage, and hi-grab.
Now cut your pieces of laminate flooring and start at the very top tread of the stair case, and fix the laminate to the vertical risers, then add a proprietary matching laminated stair nosing, www.quickstep.com make these, we glue drill and fix these into place.
Then fit your tread pice of laminate, and glue into position, clipping it under the profile of the nosing strip.
Work your way down the stairs.
This site if our old business site ( it is my website ) haven't touched it for years though, here is the finished product: http://fabfloor.co.uk/laminatestairs.htm