stairs

Hi all, hope you’re not sweating to death while trying to work in this heat! I’m cutting out the horizontal slats from my stairs so I can replace them with vertical spindles that meet building regs & more importantly won’t allow the impending child I’m currently carrying (7months pregnant) to...

Hi, I had intended to strip the paint from my stair stringers, sand and repaint nice and clean. I started at it with a heat gun today and it came off super easy, only to discover the paint and wood under tests positive for lead. (The carpet was peeled back when I did the stripping, I put it...

Hi, I am panelling my hallway and up my stairs. I have reached the point of the staircase where the skirting is curved up the stairs. What is the best way to replicate/template the curve into the mdf? Many thanks!

Hi, any help will be appreciated! I am looking at putting a narrow staircase up into my loft. The joists run cross-wise to the staircase, so I am looking into cutting the joist to create the hatch. I'd be cutting right beside where the A frame meets the joist, does this make a difference? I'm...

Hi, we're prepping the main wooden stairs in a 1930s semi for painting as the finish. There are cracks and gouges in the wood, some shallow, some perhaps 5mm deep. Please can anyone recommend a suitable filler that won't fall out and that we can paint over. Thank you

Hi knowledgeable people I am looking to repaint my dark brown stained stairs. I am struggling to work out what brand of paint to choose. They all claim to be hard wearing but are they really! I need something that truly is as hard as nails. Needs to be hoovered and mopped most days. Any...

Ive recently had a survey carried out on a house im going to be buying to live in. Part of the survey has flagged up cracked/splitting risers on the stairwell from underneath the stairs, these cracks have had braces screwed into the risers to stabilise it. I was just wondering if this is a...

I've lifted my very old carpets from the stairs. I was hoping to clean them up and leave the wood exposed on the treads. (and perhaps wallpaper the risers). I've scraped off paint and possibly filla, but in some places it has left stains. I don't know how to remove these stains. I've put a...

Hi, I am trying to sand my stairs so that I can stain either side the same light colour as the hall and then put a runner up the middle. It's been hard going, you can see in the pictures how it's progressed from the paint being on to where it now is really only the bits at the edge that need...

Hi all. My first post here so please be kindI have ordered a new staircase online for an old house. The old staircase was too steep and under the regs for tread depth. To alleviate this I have removed one wall to the left of the staircase and the new one will be a winder. At the top of the...

My next DIY project is replacing naff cheap late 70s horizontal bannisters for new traditional spindle handrail version You can see the bottom of the stairs and stringer in picture 1 and the newly post I'm getting in picture 2. From the various videos I have watched on the topic I am thinking...

Hi all. I have a newel post that's quite low and want to make it taller and then attach a handrail. I'll use zipbolt to extend the newel post. The current newel post, which is painted, measures 85x93mm. I can't find anything like that size anywhere. I suspect that I'll need to account ~1mm for...

Hi Any advice on how to lay engineered wood flooring and add edging/trim around stair spindles? . I was considering using the L shaped threshold which would butt up against the spindles, or is there a better way? Also which shops can you get stair nosing in London? Can’t seem to see anywhere...

Hi All, looking to ‘upgrade’ the stairs on a budget. i’ve removed some of the spindles, and will be looking to replace potentially with metal. i notice between each notch is another piece of wood. If this is removed, do you just use the base for the new spindles? Or do i need new ‘inserts’...

Hi all I have a damaged stair tread that I need to repair but access from underneath will mean ripping out a small stud wall and plasterboard under the stairs, which i’d really much rather not do if I can help it. mot looks like previous owners have tried to patch it before. is it possible to...

Hello I am trying to varnish the top of my stair treads. They were painted underneath the carpet - I suspect it’s when they were originally put in I. 1930. I’ve got most of the paint off but try as I might can’t get the last bits of. I’ve used 5 coats of paints stripper and every grain of...

Hi, Has anyone ever done this? We are looking to enclose an outdoor brick staircase into our house by building a wall around and then knocking through at top and bottom. Any tips?

Hi there, We had our asbestos ceilings removed and discovered all our internal walls upstairs are made of paramount wall partitions. I think it was on one of these Screwfix forums that someone said they're a fire hazard so I'm wanting to replace them all with ordinary stud walls. But I'm...

Hi, we are having a loft conversion done right now, and they are using a small downstairs room for the stairs to go in (the stairs will turn back on themselves, so the shape of the room will work well. The room currently has a window to the outside, but the stairs are going to go right across...

Hi folks. I took a brilliant brainstorm a few weeks ago and decided to strip my mahogany stairs of years of varnish to try and get them back to bare wood. For the most part, I have done this (after too many hours to count) but there are lots of little bits left in the crevices in the spindles...