I've brought this up more than once over the years. If there's another way to do floating a stairnose, ....I mean a flush mount, floating stairnose, I'd love to see it.
I've only done about 4 or 5 of these, and I have never done it the same way twice, but no failures so far................... the first was 15 years ago with Pergo. Each was a learning experience and the widest span was a 4 foot wide stair.
My soon to be record, will be a 12 foot wide flush mount, floating stair nose, that has 22 1/2 degree angles on each side. Yes................. I'm sicker than you ever imagined.
This is my bamboo nightmare, where a new floor was installed, and then the home not lived in for a year............. and the heat was turned off. It was buckled pretty bad.
I relived the tension in the floor and the buckles went away...... over a month later, with the heat on, the floor has not shrunk back one single bit................ I mean not even the width of a line printed on a tape measure. Wow..................... I figured it might have at least moved (shrunk) back an eighth in 6 weeks, but nope.............. It grew, and has stayed that way.......................... We are talking a 41 foot span, not a small room.
My plan is to replace the last two boards near the stair nose, then attach the stair nose to the floor in a way that allows it to move, but only horizontally.
If you trip on a star nose while going up the step, you don't want that to happen because the nosing is loose and wiggles or flops up and down.
My method secures the nose gently to the final plank, and also to a modified and detached portion of the underlayment in a way that only allows it to move only in a horizontal plane.............. about quarter of an inch in any direction. Virtually no movement vertically.
Here's a drawing of the room itself to better describe my concerns about expansion. 41 feet from wall to wall is a game changer for a flush mount stair nose. The approximate 15 feet of stair nose is shown at the top of the drawing.
I've only done about 4 or 5 of these, and I have never done it the same way twice, but no failures so far................... the first was 15 years ago with Pergo. Each was a learning experience and the widest span was a 4 foot wide stair.
My soon to be record, will be a 12 foot wide flush mount, floating stair nose, that has 22 1/2 degree angles on each side. Yes................. I'm sicker than you ever imagined.
This is my bamboo nightmare, where a new floor was installed, and then the home not lived in for a year............. and the heat was turned off. It was buckled pretty bad.
I relived the tension in the floor and the buckles went away...... over a month later, with the heat on, the floor has not shrunk back one single bit................ I mean not even the width of a line printed on a tape measure. Wow..................... I figured it might have at least moved (shrunk) back an eighth in 6 weeks, but nope.............. It grew, and has stayed that way.......................... We are talking a 41 foot span, not a small room.
My plan is to replace the last two boards near the stair nose, then attach the stair nose to the floor in a way that allows it to move, but only horizontally.
If you trip on a star nose while going up the step, you don't want that to happen because the nosing is loose and wiggles or flops up and down.
My method secures the nose gently to the final plank, and also to a modified and detached portion of the underlayment in a way that only allows it to move only in a horizontal plane.............. about quarter of an inch in any direction. Virtually no movement vertically.
Here's a drawing of the room itself to better describe my concerns about expansion. 41 feet from wall to wall is a game changer for a flush mount stair nose. The approximate 15 feet of stair nose is shown at the top of the drawing.
