What is the name of "the washer"? (see the image)

[general82]

Wonder what these cover plates that are meant to cover ugly screw heads are called and where you can find them?
Check out the picture and you'll see.

 

[Bergling]

Is it really washers then and not just the screw head that looks like that?

Are they completely flat on top?

Otherwise, you usually use wood or plastic plugs to cover screw holes on a staircase.

 

[Immobil]

They are usually called cover caps. You can find them in different materials and colors at a well-stocked hardware store.

 

[Staffans2000]

I wonder just like "Bergling" if they are cover plates? Hard to see! If the "plates" cannot be pried off, they are not plates but the head of so-called carriage bolts you see.

Staffan

 

[Immobil]

Carriage bolt it cannot be, because otherwise TS must have a nut on the other side of the carriage.

This is what a carriage bolt looks like:
http://www.clasohlson.se/Product/Category.aspx?id=251804&_path=251882;251746;251763;251085;251804

 

[Staffans2000]

Carriage bolt it cannot be, because if so, TS must have a nut on the other side of the stringer.



Oh... and who says he doesn't have that?

Staffan

 

[Immobil]

I, because I have never seen a staircase with nuts on the inside of the stringers.

 

[bygga_bo]

Also known as a täckplugg...

 

[general82]

no, it's not a carriage bolt.
I removed one here and took a picture of it. I see now that the original picture I took might not have those.
See this picture instead.

 

[general82]

I can add almost 4 years later that I STILL haven't found this "brickan/pluggen"!

I've asked in about 10 stores/builders' merchants. Catalogs have been leafed through for hours.
Managed to grind and reuse a few but still missing about 40 "brickor/pluggar".
The house is from 73 so it shouldn't be completely forgotten things...

 

[Fotografen]

Probably something special that the stair manufacturer/house builder/some fitting company has put together. Try to find some sealing plug, and replace everything to make it uniform.

 

[jonas_loof]

I bought chrome end caps for pipes when I needed to cover the holes in the stair railing. I purchased them from a store fittings company.

 

[KnockOnWood]

Do they have to be exactly the same?

http://www.jula.se/tacklock-12-pack-302042

http://www.jula.se/tacklock-12-pack-302041

The white variant probably fits best.

 

[Fredrik.engdahl]

TH Nyman on Hillebardsgatan in Malmö probably has those at home