Q: I have Quick-Step flooring in my entry along with a sunken living room. To handle the edge where the flooring ends, I have installed the stair nose piece, placing a few nails on top to hold it down. However, it doesn’t look that attractive where the nails are, as well as where pieces butt together.
Do you have the stair nosing in a paintable type, that I could nail in and use putty, then paint? Or, do you have another solution to my sunken living room problem?
Thank you,
Kirk Reynolds
A: Typically when working with stair nosing after face nailing you will cover the nail holes using a color matched floor putty. These are very common and made in a myriad of colors, making it fairly easy to find a very good match.
Now if the nosing you have has a very different color, and you want to paint a nosing, I would suggest looking for an unfinished stair nose from a local home store, then install and stain or paint how you please. Keep in mind that this may require you to use an overlapping nosing in order to properly cover any gap between nosing and floor.
Quick Step does make a flush stair nose kit which comes with a lower profile to snap into the locking system, then an upper profile which sockets into the lower profile and makes the entire floor flow smoothly to the lip of the stair nosing or in this case the sunk in living room. This is a great alternative if you still have a chance to install this into the locking mechanism of the floor.
