Hi everyone,
hope you can give me a little advice/suggestions.
We have just moved to a new house and the staircase is 'open'. The treads are carpeted right round.
I am concerned that our dog is going to harm himself by losing his footing through the gaps. We have already had a couple of close calls.
I wish to close the gaps by putting in risers and then repining each piece of carpet to make a closed carpeted staircase.
As the risers are not part of the support structure and not load bearing i wondered what type of wood to use and how to fix.
I thought about 18mm MDF.
And the two fixing methods i have in mind are either
a - wooden block brackets to fix to the upper tread and long (ish) woodscrews through the riser and lower tread.
b - screw down through the upper tread (countersunk). And same as a for the riser to lower tread.
probably with first applying some pva to the joining surfaces.
That's my thoughts so feel free to comment on how you think i should tackle this. I will be doing it on my own and kinna need to do it quickly.
thanks in advance,
cheers,
dave
hope you can give me a little advice/suggestions.
We have just moved to a new house and the staircase is 'open'. The treads are carpeted right round.
I am concerned that our dog is going to harm himself by losing his footing through the gaps. We have already had a couple of close calls.
I wish to close the gaps by putting in risers and then repining each piece of carpet to make a closed carpeted staircase.
As the risers are not part of the support structure and not load bearing i wondered what type of wood to use and how to fix.
I thought about 18mm MDF.
And the two fixing methods i have in mind are either
a - wooden block brackets to fix to the upper tread and long (ish) woodscrews through the riser and lower tread.
b - screw down through the upper tread (countersunk). And same as a for the riser to lower tread.
probably with first applying some pva to the joining surfaces.
That's my thoughts so feel free to comment on how you think i should tackle this. I will be doing it on my own and kinna need to do it quickly.
thanks in advance,
cheers,
dave
