How To Make A Flooring Radius For A Curved Step
Wet the plys for flexibility and a slower glue dry.
How to make a flooring radius for a curved step. Use a piece of paper that is long enough to span the curve and wide enough to intersect the. She said her husband wanted a double curve nosing and riser on the one step down to their living room. The curved wall that i build actually becomes the form for my inside stringer. Choose a thickness that ll bend to the curve you need.
I looked the job over and i was thinking this was a small job. 6 or 8 inches tall and 6 radius or what you need 5 plys from the band saw and then wide belt for a decent glue surface. Nosing will give you the best results. Don t get me wrong i could do it with no problem.
For gradual bends or wide curves use 3 4 in thick material. For tighter bends those with a smaller radius use a 1 2 in. Make a template from newsprint or masking paper for curves that span several flooring boards. Trim tack strips with a utility knife into small pieces to fit around the curve.
First buy or make the strips. When installing hardwood laminate ect. Place the strips on the floor around the curve ensuring that the teeth face the wall and the ends of the strips. Plastic stop molding or something similar.
Paper towel dry them we use titebond ii and clamp over night. There are several ways to tackle this tough chore but bending wood and laminating several thin strips to create 3 4 in. In this video series you ll see how master carpenter mike belzowski builds a curved stair riser by first creating a full scale drawing of the starting step he then uses that as a reference to make templates for both the riser form and curved tread. It would take me the same amount of hours to install the new floor as it would to make that one piece of nosing.
This video will show how to measure and cut perfect cuts for round or curved walls railings ect. When time permits make a nice reusable jig. The first step is to buy or make thin stock 1 8 to 3 16 in for the nosing. The bottom plate of my curved wall is actually a series of wedge shaped pieces of 2 4 that fit between the studs at the front edge of each step.
The steps in my curved wall give me the location to cut the stinger for each step.