Repairing the Steps of Wooden Stairs With Your Forces

On the street, the sun shines brighter, the snow melts quickly, which means that in the near future there will be an exit to the garden and dacha site. Someone leaves there only for the weekend, and someone - for the entire warm season. Some have at their site a minimum for comfort, others are building large and cozy summer houses. But whichever structure is on your site, the winter will make its corrections to its external and internal appearance. Do you want it or not, but even just a cosmetic repair will need to do. Provided, of course, that you are a masterful host. The first thing to do is to scrupulously inspect your structure and identify the most vulnerable places. Then decide on the order of the necessary repairs and proceed with its implementation.

For example, you have revealed that some steps of the wooden staircase, which by faith and truth served your family for several years, have become worthless or on the verge of that. To eliminate these problems, repairs or even replacement are required. Return the beauty and strength of worn and worn steps can, for example, by lining them with a laminate.

In the repair of the surface of the stage, a special cantilever profile made of anodized aluminum will be a good helper . Light and durable, having a fairly large color palette, it perfectly matches with any floor covering and is very easy to install. The only condition is the rectangular shape of the step. If your stage has rounded ends, then they should be changed to rectangular ones using an electric gun. With his help, the front surface of the step is carefully leveled, in order to maximally fit the profile of the profile.

For the most accurate cutting of the cover of the steps, be stocked with a template of turntables made of cardboard. Steps that have large potholes can be restored with an additional U-shaped profile, which is rigidly fixed with screws and mounting foam as a sealant.

The place of rotation or support of the handrail requires the greatest attention when adjusting the horizontal elements of the step cover. You do not want your flaws to be publicized?

After all the preparatory work has been carried out and carefully verified, we proceed to the next stage of recovery steps. On the dust-free horizontal surface of the step, we apply the mounting glue onto which the prepared laminate plate is applied. Next, we set the profile of the cant, which tightly presses the new coating of your step to the old base. The profile is fastened with screws with a pitch of 20-25 cm. At the final stage of repair, the profile of the profile is covered with a decorative decorative strip, which is included in the delivery of the profile. It is made of either plastic or different types of wood, and is designed to hide the profile anchorages.

At the next stage, you remove the approaches, either in the tone of the main cover of the steps, or in contrast. There is already complete freedom for your imagination.

And in conclusion, with a critical glance you look at the creation of your hands, eliminating the detected minor flaws.

Thus, having completed only 9 operations, you get a virtually new and beautiful staircase that will last another year for your family.

A brief reminder of the course of operations:

1) remove the old coating, if any;

2) level the step surface;

3) prepare a new coating for each step (laminate, plywood, linoleum, etc.);

4) carefully adjust the cover to the step;

5) apply the adhesive cushion on the prepared base of the step;

6) install and fix the profile;

7) install a decorative strip;

8) to revet the approaches;

9) grind and clean the visible end elements.