My new staircase has 3 treads that have 8″ long splits near the front edge. The stairs will be painted, not stained.
Can the tread be fixed in place? Or should it be pulled out and replaced? Construction adhesive was used on install. I don’t want to make things worse trying to free the treads from the adhesive.
But I don’t want a long term maintenance issue in 2 or 3 years.
Scott
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Bump...
It sounds like the nosings are splitting off. Not a good situation, but not entirely a disaster either.
What species is the treadstock. That will probably be my deciding factor about replacing none, just the two, or all of them before I carpeted.
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The treads are oak. They're interior stairs, leading from the garage to a room above. They'll never have carpet or stain on them, only paint.
Why are they splitting? Drying out? Or are the tread cuts on the stair carriage/stringer not flat/straight? A little hump in the cut for the tread could cause the tread to flex & crack.
Its new construction. The nose of the treads is seperating from the tread, right at the joint. It looks like the glue joint failed on the prefab treads. The joint also is directly above the riser, so there's no support. The back side of the staircase has been drywalled.3 treads of 14 are failing. Fix or replace?
well... it's new construction. I'd replace them and think about the other 11 at the same time.
If you can get at the treads from below, you have more repair options. Do the fix from below, then close up the stringers with drywall.
You can glue 1/2" x 1/2" or 5/8" x 5/8" cove molding under each tread where it meets the riser and then wrap it around on the end under the end of the tread there. I have always done that to prevent what you are experiencing.
Scott,
sounds like the glue used on the manufacture of the treads has failed, if there's only three of them and the back side is rocked...try this....drill a pilot hole thru the front of the nose into the tread, drill counter-sink, apply glue to joint, fasten w/ wood screw, fill and paint, done! pulling those treads that have been fastened with const. adhesive would be no fun!! you might want 2 screws per tread ..depending on how long the split is..good luck
Geoff
sweet.