Anyone can do this.
Stair skirt board installation.
You may inherit a situation where your home s stair builder decided to skip the skirt the protective one by 12 that protects the wall.
Staircase skirt boards are installed during the construction or added as a trim feature later.
I want to put new treads on these stairs which are finished wood so that there is no visible gap between the end of the stair tread and the wall or skirt board.
Stair skirts must perfectly line up with the staircase stringers so that both start and end at the proper angles and locations.
The current stairs had carpet on them so the gap didn t matter.
The cutting and installing stair skirts requires some basic carpentry skill and common tools.
How to install a stair skirt board to existing stairs.
Miter riser cut on skirt.
The current skirt board was installed before the treads so the treads butt up against the skirt board.
Installing wall skirt the following steps describe this process.
This method works on any stairway.
Using a two foot level scribe a line plumb with each riser.
2 7 measuring and cutting the wall skirt.
Step by step how to video on scribing skirt boards into a marble stairway with steel tread nosing.