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?
driver55 schrieb:
Cotton-based plaster applied with a plastic trowel. A special primer must be applied beforehand.
This is how our entire staircase is done. Could you please show a picture of how that looks? 🙂
I can now share some practical experience :-)
Over the weekend, we finished the stairwell as well as the hallway on the ground floor and first floor.
Contrary to our initial assumption, we were able to reach behind the stair treads on both sides using a small roller.
We worked from top to bottom, but not floor by floor; instead, we worked side by side.
I hope you understand what I mean—we started on the left side of the stairwell and completed that entire side from the first floor down to the basement.
On the two sides where we could reach behind with the roller, we removed every second step before starting.
In the middle section, using the small roller didn’t really work for me. Here, three of us worked together: two painted while the third removed one step at a time from below.
Overall, it went surprisingly well and quickly, and we finished in about 3 hours.
Once the last tradespeople are done, we’ll paint again one last time, and then it will be complete :-)
We are very satisfied with the result, and it looks very good to us.
That said, it’s helpful to have some experience with textured wall coating (roller plaster) before tackling the stairwell, as this makes it easier to judge how much plaster to apply to the wall and to determine the fastest and most efficient way to proceed.
Over the weekend, we finished the stairwell as well as the hallway on the ground floor and first floor.
Contrary to our initial assumption, we were able to reach behind the stair treads on both sides using a small roller.
We worked from top to bottom, but not floor by floor; instead, we worked side by side.
I hope you understand what I mean—we started on the left side of the stairwell and completed that entire side from the first floor down to the basement.
On the two sides where we could reach behind with the roller, we removed every second step before starting.
In the middle section, using the small roller didn’t really work for me. Here, three of us worked together: two painted while the third removed one step at a time from below.
Overall, it went surprisingly well and quickly, and we finished in about 3 hours.
Once the last tradespeople are done, we’ll paint again one last time, and then it will be complete :-)
We are very satisfied with the result, and it looks very good to us.
That said, it’s helpful to have some experience with textured wall coating (roller plaster) before tackling the stairwell, as this makes it easier to judge how much plaster to apply to the wall and to determine the fastest and most efficient way to proceed.
driver55 schrieb:
doesn't really come across well…Actually, it looks quite clear. Is it possible to paint or color it before applying?
I'd like to get a sense of the texture's scale. Is there a photo with a chair, picture, flower, or something similar for reference?
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