Has anyone ever designed an exterior stair railing that needs a visibility stipe on the nosing of the stair tread???
-I have - just not on a historic building - usually we just put down some reflective tape on the tread
-the problem is the stair is brick so laying down a peice of reflective tape is out of the question!
-painting the nosing on a historic brick stair looks like shit!
change the direction of the brick course... use differnt color mortar or different color bricks on the nosing...drill holes in the brick and fill with a different colored mortar...or paint
well i didnt really think of that ... good ideas definatly - but im not to sure how the university would be about ripping up 10 treads to put in another color brick or mortar just on the nosing...but i really like the last corse of brick going perpendicular to the other corses...but then again its also a lot of money...well see
you can buy bricks with grooves pre-cut in them or with a metal strips (usually about 1/16 protrusion)...but mdler's version seem more in tune if you are used to putting down just relflective strips
run the circular saw a few times along the edge of the brick steps....at a decent spacing, inject with coloured mortar or compound...ACE has pre-mixed reflective paint for less that 20
nice thats awesome - i like that one even better - still pretty cheap but the labor cost would im sure kill the idea...if it were my building and i had any of these choices - i would pick that last one for sure...scoring the brick 4 or 5 times per tread and filling it in w/ a contrasting colored mortar - that would look sweet
- i was thinking of scoring a 1/2" deep x 1/4" thick cut into the brick about 4 or 5 times 1/2" apart starting 3/4" from the face of the brick
-do ya think 3/4" is enough meat so that if someone steps there the nosing doesnt break off or chip away
Stair Tread Visibility
Has anyone ever designed an exterior stair railing that needs a visibility stipe on the nosing of the stair tread???
-I have - just not on a historic building - usually we just put down some reflective tape on the tread
-the problem is the stair is brick so laying down a peice of reflective tape is out of the question!
-painting the nosing on a historic brick stair looks like shit!
-any ideas - anything would help...thanks!
change the direction of the brick course... use differnt color mortar or different color bricks on the nosing...drill holes in the brick and fill with a different colored mortar...or paint
toothing in a different brick color?
well i didnt really think of that ... good ideas definatly - but im not to sure how the university would be about ripping up 10 treads to put in another color brick or mortar just on the nosing...but i really like the last corse of brick going perpendicular to the other corses...but then again its also a lot of money...well see
you can buy bricks with grooves pre-cut in them or with a metal strips (usually about 1/16 protrusion)...but mdler's version seem more in tune if you are used to putting down just relflective strips
stones....cheapest way (yet still very effective)
run the circular saw a few times along the edge of the brick steps....at a decent spacing, inject with coloured mortar or compound...ACE has pre-mixed reflective paint for less that 20
it won't look too crappy if you do it that way
nice thats awesome - i like that one even better - still pretty cheap but the labor cost would im sure kill the idea...if it were my building and i had any of these choices - i would pick that last one for sure...scoring the brick 4 or 5 times per tread and filling it in w/ a contrasting colored mortar - that would look sweet
- i was thinking of scoring a 1/2" deep x 1/4" thick cut into the brick about 4 or 5 times 1/2" apart starting 3/4" from the face of the brick
-do ya think 3/4" is enough meat so that if someone steps there the nosing doesnt break off or chip away
hopefully DSA doesnt knock the idea...bastards!!!
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