Morning! read the previous thread about new build stairs, but my question is.... Who fixes the gripper using a Maestri? I've done this myself on new builds and now got the inevitable no matter how you fixed it creak on winders (18 months after fitting). The builder went to the house to rectify the creaking, but said he can't do it as it is how the gripper was fitted that caused the problem. Fortunately the home owner is a friend and I can soon rectify his problem creaks, but where do we stand? can we use the Maestri or not? I know it says glue or screw, but does everyone do this?
hi. we have 40 plus fitters going out every day on barretts, bovis etc etc and they all fix the gripper with a maestri staple gun. we have no comebacks whatsoever!
Shame builders can't use screws to fix the riser to the tread isn't it? three oval nails just don't cut it!!!!!
it defeats the purpose doing this as when your knocking the carpet into the gripps surely the pressure knocks the risers back anyway
wood gripper for me on new build stairs never had a problem, if a set of stairs cant take a little hit putting wood gripper on then they arnt fit for purpose as far as im concerned.
The builders tend to take shortcuts, leaving the finishing trades to pick up the slack. Older houses are put together much more carefully.
I went through a pipe behind a riser around ten years ago. I'm still scratching my head about it to this day.
Most new builds have the mdf risers which don't hold any type of mechanical fixing, there total crap. If only more house builders would use plywood for there stringers, like most things these days the cheapest material is king.
My inlaws have a nice new house in Southend on sea. It was built in the 90s. The floors are chipboard instead of floorboards as in most new builds. I did the hall in karndean knight tile planks. I put 6mm ply down then laid the planks. It looks great at first but now looks terrible. The chipboard has dropped and now the floor which is 1m wide by about 7m looks like a wave machine. Every time I go there I can't look at it.
nightmare, Sod's law it's a job for friend/relative. it's looks like you've done something wrong when its the poor building quality of the house. Not fair.
They know the cause. Told them next time I do it will either take up the chipboard for ply or fibre screed it and get it flat.
cheap chipboard crap, I wouldn't mind but structural ply isn't much more expensive and doesn't need much prepping for putting down floorcoverings inn the long run probably works out cheaper.
My argument is,if the stairs can't take gripper put on with a hammer,they ain't gonna take me smashing the carpet in with a mallet and bolster
I had to go a replace some Karndean planks in a hall a few months back. The customer got the stair carpet from another shop after we had done the hall. When they got to the bottom step the guy just kept on banging on the bolster, with the mdf riser not being fixed it had curved in by a full inch, dunno how much carpet he was trying to tuck in but he pushed the riser completely away from the finished Karndean and chipped all the edges in the process. We lifted back the planks and screwed 2 L-brackets to the riser and front of stair then refitted new planks and stair carpet..... the other shop paid the bill!!
Surely if the riser had been lose the would of taken it off and fitted it bottom to top! I fitted a load of kitchens in vinyl for a Taylor Whimpy site, ****ty chip board have out a stick seaside trapping the vinyls in places and causing creases! Had to lift 5 off the sprinkle some flour about and relay!! And don't start me off about mastic!!!!
