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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far, our experience has been pretty smooth, after the shenanigans of permitting.  But here is a snag we hit on flooring:   It was a mistake to hire one company to finish our stairs (the treads, risers & banisters) and another to install flooring.  Because the interplay between stair finishing and flooring is complicated and has to be precise.  I wish we had done with a single entity to ensure seamless communication.  We did not know this, and thought we had a great deal on a flooring installer that isn't the usual one that our builder uses.  The stair installers did the treads and the risers, and we have 2 problems: first, the risers were pine and the stairs are red oak.  But our flooring is a scraped maple.  So instead of using the exact same planks, we'll have to stain the red oak treads to get as close as possible to the maple--the installer thinks it will be ok and match pretty closely, but the grain won't be the exact same of course.

Second, related: the risers are done in pine, which doesn't stain that well and will never really match. So we'll either need to cover the risers with additional wood, which would be okay....but the top lip that comes down from the riser finishing has already been done, and its not quite long enough that we can use a single 5" plank. It looked like this:  https://imgur.com/a/YVaC3DQ

So rather than have an inexact stain, or ripping out stairs- our alternative is to just paint the risers and go with white risers instead of wood stain risers, like this https://images.app.goo.gl/Wk5k5RDC6YZMeSpS6

I actually like white risers as a look, but see them getting scuffed and needed to be retouched a lot, given our active household.  So white risers, it is.

On another note, the flooring went down really fast-- we had been told 3 weeks.  Whole thing took closer to one week + a week for conditioning.

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Do a simple runner on the stairs to prevent scuffs on the risers.   Also do your stairs have a landing midway or are they a straight run?   With 10 foot ceilings you have added extra steps and it is good to have a break as one climbs. [/quote]

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