Losing confidence in my installer due to his mistakes

utahband · **Joined:** Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:11 pm **Posts:** 1

My flooring guy messed up when starting my floors. He started on one end of the room and worked towards the stairs. Now he's in a situation where the bullnose for the stairs does not properly meet with the floor. See pictures. To correct this, he says he's going to use a multitool to cut back the board to allow the bullnose to fit. Is this going to look like crap?

He's made some other mistakes too that he says he will make right. Some of these are: ~2-4 mm gaps in the seams between planks. I'm losing confidence in him. Please make me feel better about this situation.

Thanks.

JIMMIEM · **Joined:** Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:05 pm **Posts:** 675

utahband wrote:

My flooring guy messed up when starting my floors. He started on one end of the room and worked towards the stairs. Now he's in a situation where the bullnose for the stairs does not properly meet with the floor. See pictures. To correct this, he says he's going to use a multitool to cut back the board to allow the bullnose to fit. Is this going to look like crap?

He's made some other mistakes too that he says he will make right. Some of these are: ~2-4 mm gaps in the seams between planks. I'm losing confidence in him. Please make me feel better about this situation.

Thanks.

It will look fine if he is able to make a clean straight cut with the multitool.
Are the gaps due to the milling of the flooring? Not all flooring is created (manufactured) with the same tolerances.

Ken Fisher · **Posted:** Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:54 am

Is that a "step up" ? Or part of a series of stairs?

To fix, add remove the Spanish tile and fasten plywood to the riser.

Looks like it would need more than one piece.

floormeintucson · **Posted:** Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:16 am

What Ken said or one piece of plywood glued and fastened to the riser, then rip the stair nose and groove it so it fits perfectly. Is that a floater - gluedown/fastened?

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