ᐅ Stair Finishing – Hardwood Flooring

Hello everyone,
in our newly built house, we have a concrete staircase with glued parquet flooring on top. The edge of the staircase or step follows the shape of the stairs. Adjacent to this, the parquet is installed as a floating floor.
The carpenter has resolved this with a transition strip, which not only looks unattractive but also has sharp edges at the ends, making it dangerous (see photo). Is this correct?
Are there any other possible solutions?
Thank you very much for your help!

Why wasn’t the parquet simply glued down?
If it’s high quality, you wouldn’t be taking it out again. And with fully glued flooring, you could even skip the baseboards.

In 20 years, we might want to remove the parquet flooring again. If we had known that a U-shaped rail would extend into the room, we would have had it glued down. This was simply never communicated.

What type of hardwood flooring do you have there? It looks good.
But the baseboard is really bad… something needs to be done about it.

Alex85 schrieb:
What kind of parquet flooring do you have there? It looks nice.
The baseboard is really awful though ... something needs to be done about it.

Thanks , we think so too!
It’s Kährs parquet, Oak Jersey.

Christa_74 schrieb:
In 20 years we might want to take out the parquet again

But parquet is timeless.
I think the option to glue it down can still be done later.
And honestly, that would also mean you have to remove all the wood from the entire staircase.

I’d talk to the parquet installer again about it.