Well, either you do nothing, or you just glue, or you glue and screw, but you should do the same on all the steps. Doing it on just one side or a few steps is probably pretty pointless.EndZone said:Mexitegel: Forgot to ask you a question as well. Could it further help to screw the steps into the stringer from the outside stringer into the step, directly from the side? Or is there a risk that this might instead pull the step out from the stringer attached to the outer wall? Otherwise, I thought that this might pull the stringer back to the step again, after which you can later perform the solution you suggested? But you don't want to worsen the situation by pulling the step out on the other end instead
Thanks! Regarding removing the platform, it was of course on my mind as well, but then it would be a heck of a long last step from the stairs to the floor, so I couldn't figure out how to easily solve that. A platform still felt like a good interim solution until the day I tackle the entire basement room. That day will probably take a while though.
We're all agreed on screwing and gluing the steps. But there's still this matter of needing to wedge something under between the floor chipboard and the stringer, right? Otherwise, it feels like the stringer attached to the outer wall would take a lot of stress, while the other stringer is half-hanging in the air (not when standing on the bottom step though, then the outer stringer also meets the platform).
We're all agreed on screwing and gluing the steps. But there's still this matter of needing to wedge something under between the floor chipboard and the stringer, right? Otherwise, it feels like the stringer attached to the outer wall would take a lot of stress, while the other stringer is half-hanging in the air (not when standing on the bottom step though, then the outer stringer also meets the platform).
If you lower the entire staircase when dismantling it for screw gluing, it can be fixed in a few hours!
Upstairs you'll have a small difference that everyone's feet can handle.
One time I had to dismantle a staircase in the same way for a bed delivery
Dismantling and assembling 1 hour.
Upstairs you'll have a small difference that everyone's feet can handle.
One time I had to dismantle a staircase in the same way for a bed delivery
Dismantling and assembling 1 hour.
The easiest solution would probably have been a piece of pine plank in the right dimension to extend the stringers, but now the platform is already there.
1. Find a suitable shim (wedge doesn't need a detailed description of its geometric form ) that you place between the stringer and the floor.
2. Drill a hole in the stringer about 5 cm up from the floor with a diameter approximately equal to the threads of the screw. Drill through the entire stringer but not into the floor.
3. Buy a dowel rod made of pine with a diameter larger than the head of the screw and then drill a hole with a drill bit the same diameter as the dowel deep enough so the screw reaches the floor (and if there's a joist under).
4. Screw in the screw.
5. Cut a piece of the dowel that is slightly longer than the depth of the hole and tap it in.
6. File and sand.
7. Done!
1. Find a suitable shim (wedge doesn't need a detailed description of its geometric form
) that you place between the stringer and the floor.2. Drill a hole in the stringer about 5 cm up from the floor with a diameter approximately equal to the threads of the screw. Drill through the entire stringer but not into the floor.
3. Buy a dowel rod made of pine with a diameter larger than the head of the screw and then drill a hole with a drill bit the same diameter as the dowel deep enough so the screw reaches the floor (and if there's a joist under).
4. Screw in the screw.
5. Cut a piece of the dowel that is slightly longer than the depth of the hole and tap it in.
6. File and sand.
7. Done!
Awesome! I think I'll follow that tip. Yes, skipping the platform would unfortunately have caused some other aesthetic issues on two walls that would have required re-wallpapering, and in the end, I just felt that building a platform was both more convenient and quicker in this situation.