Hi everyone,
We plan to paint our stairwell with Knauf EasyPutz this weekend. Now we’re wondering about the best way to approach it.
We’ve already painted several rooms with it and are (by now 🙂) a bit more experienced.
Our staircase is an open quarter-turn two-stringer staircase (typical townhouse stairs). We can’t reach the wall behind the treads, so we’ll have to unscrew the treads.
We can’t do the entire height in one go, so we thought about the following:
- remove all treads up to the next floor
- paint from the floor up to just above the treads
- put the treads back on
- then move on to the next floor
And work our way from the basement up to the top floor
That way, any edges between the floors would be just above the stair treads, which should look less noticeable than having them in the middle of the wall.
Do you have any other suggestions?
We plan to paint our stairwell with Knauf EasyPutz this weekend. Now we’re wondering about the best way to approach it.
We’ve already painted several rooms with it and are (by now 🙂) a bit more experienced.
Our staircase is an open quarter-turn two-stringer staircase (typical townhouse stairs). We can’t reach the wall behind the treads, so we’ll have to unscrew the treads.
We can’t do the entire height in one go, so we thought about the following:
- remove all treads up to the next floor
- paint from the floor up to just above the treads
- put the treads back on
- then move on to the next floor
And work our way from the basement up to the top floor
That way, any edges between the floors would be just above the stair treads, which should look less noticeable than having them in the middle of the wall.
Do you have any other suggestions?
@ypg:
I wouldn’t call it a replacement, it’s just something different.
We used Knauf Easyputz with a 0.5mm (0.02 inch) grain size.
However, it really doesn’t forgive any imperfections. Blemishes and scratches underneath tend to show through. The substrate needs to be very well prepared. Otherwise, we only applied it on the walls. The ceilings were smoothly skimmed by the painter.
I wouldn’t call it a replacement, it’s just something different.
We used Knauf Easyputz with a 0.5mm (0.02 inch) grain size.
However, it really doesn’t forgive any imperfections. Blemishes and scratches underneath tend to show through. The substrate needs to be very well prepared. Otherwise, we only applied it on the walls. The ceilings were smoothly skimmed by the painter.
Imke2020 schrieb:
Hi everyone,
We want to paint our stairwell this weekend using Knauf EasyPutz. Now we’re wondering about the best way to go about it.
We have already painted several rooms with it and have (by now 🙂) gained some experience.
Our staircase is an open quarter-turn stringer stair (classic townhouse stair). We can’t reach the wall behind the steps, so we have to unscrew the treads.
We can’t paint the entire height in one go. We thought the following:
- Remove all the treads up to the next floor.
- Paint from the floor up to just above the treads.
- Reattach the treads.
- Then move on to the next floor.
And work from the basement up towards the attic.
This way, any edges between floors would fall just above the stair treads, which is definitely less noticeable than in the middle of the wall.
Do you have another suggestion? Is the issue mainly that you can’t use a roller between the stair treads and the wall? What about using a brush? We worked with a roller right up to just above and below the treads, then used a brush for the small remaining areas. After that, we roughly painted about 20cm (8 inches) up and down along the wall beside the treads with color again (does that make sense?). This way, the difference between the roller and brush wasn’t noticeable at all. It looked very good.
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Pwnage61923 Jun 2022 12:57@driver55 if you advise against using easyPutz, what would you recommend as an alternative to textured paint?
Pwnage619 schrieb:
@driver55 if you advise against easyPutz, what would you recommend as an alternative to roller-applied plaster?Cotton plaster, applied with a plastic trowel. A special primer must be applied beforehand. This is how our entire stairwell is done.
Imke2020 schrieb:
but it feels like very rough sandpaper.Exactly, like 80-grit sandpaper. 🙁Use natural cotton fiber; it’s easy to work with, and you can stop and start whenever you want. Repairs are also simple.
SumsumBiene26 Jun 2022 06:51driver55 schrieb:
Exactly like 80-grit sandpaper. 🙁
Use natural cotton fiber; it's easy to work with, and you can stop and resume whenever you want. Repairs are also simple....and you will probably be able to remove all of this from the wall more easily than that dreadful textured plaster.