Hi all,
I have decided to lay a solid wood floor (25mm pine boards) over a concrete sub floor using 25mm battens. This obviously results in the ground floor being raised by 50mm. Does anyone know how I get around having a very shallow step at the bottom of the staircase? I really want to avoid buying a new staircase.
The rise of the finished bottom step would be approx 85mm and all the rest of the risers would be 150mm. I am in Scotland and building regs state that all the risers have to be uniform, as far as I can make out. I have contemplated fastening plywood to the stairs at decreasing heights as you move up the staircase to even out the height difference, but the stairs would then not be in line with the stringer and they would not all be uniform in size? We would be carpeting the staircase eventually.
Any help would be very much appreciated.