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Creaking stairs ?


Peter3

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Hello.

          Stairs and upstairs landings creaking loudly underfoot.

House built in mid 70's, wooden stairs and landings dried out.

 

Could anyone please advise of a method or a product which

could deal with this problem, without having to tear the place

apart ? I will take up the stair carpet and underlay if I have to.

 

Thank you,  Pete.

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If the stairs are made the traditional way with wedges for the treads and risers it might be worth getting under them with a hammer and seeing if you can knock them in a bit. 

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I think you are not getting advice because no one knows.

 

Suspecting that the way to fix this is going to be to replace the whole thing with a custom designed replacement from somewhere like Pears Stairs or Stairbox.

 

I have no idea how to fit that in to an existing space but stairs seem to get installed late on in self builds. I think that if you can bottom the dimensions and how it fits the jigsaw, then the actual cost could be modest (Ish), as they are not hugely expensive. That is, low thousands not high hundreds. Lots of design work though, and you will need a demon checking partner, cos if it won’t fit you could be seriously banjaxed.

 

That may be a better option than several days of Joiner, though I would explore both.

 

Can you get hold of some docs with the original design or dimensions? 

 

Ferdinand

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On 20/07/2019 at 23:13, Peter3 said:

[...]. I can only get at six of the treads from underneath and nothing else.

 

Having just built some temporary stairs - one  tread of which creaked - I venture to suggest that you are going to have to expose the hidden under-stair area.

Then the answer is likely to be contained in one or more of these videos

 

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