ᐅ Cladding an Open Mezzanine with a Staircase

Hello,

we have a small open gallery and recently installed a steel stringer staircase.
There are screws sticking out now, which doesn’t look good visually. I’ve attached some pictures for reference.
Do you have any ideas on how to fix this?

Glue the entire surface with the parquet flooring? Or use a steel plate, either brushed stainless steel or in the stringer color.
Alternatively, cover it with a drywall panel and repaint it.

Who installed the staircase for you? The metalworker/stair builder should have been able to plan this in advance and include a steel stringer or something similar.

Patrick93 schrieb:

There are screws sticking out now, and it doesn’t look good visually.

Do you mean the two brackets in picture 1? You can patch the plaster with gypsum and paint the brackets in the gray shade like the staircase. That will make it look appropriate again.

face26 schrieb:

Who installed your staircase? The metalworker/stair builder should have planned this and included a steel stringer or something similar.

But they don’t, and it’s not their responsibility if this is a design-build project with a special feature (open space).
I’m simply assuming it’s a design-build project.
The general contractor should point out the missing elements and coordinate this work with the special “open space” feature, but general contractors often don’t manage this well. If you don’t have a tradesperson who offers this service proactively, then that’s the result. The more special features you want, the more reasons there are not to build with a general contractor.
A plasterer won’t come back just for two holes, etc.
As for the side in picture 2: Remove the adhesive yourself using a putty knife and then paint over it with white afterward. Applying something over it beforehand will reduce the aesthetics.

...which is why I also wrote that it could/should have been done differently.

I’m not familiar with the background. It’s not very elegant. Who installed the hardwood flooring? If there was no steel stringer or similar support there beforehand, you’d usually install an angle profile or something similar at that transition. Didn’t the flooring installer ask how to finish that edge?

ypg schrieb:

Regarding the side shown in picture 2: remove the adhesive itself with a putty knife and then paint over it afterwards. Applying something in advance ruins the aesthetics.

And what about the seam edge of the flooring? Just leaving it like that?

Strange situation.

face26 schrieb:

And the edge of the parquet? Just leave it as is?

If the plaster edge meets the wood cleanly, I would leave it like that, yes. Why introduce a third material?