ᐅ Additional cost for beech staircase compared to oak staircase
Created on: 4 Sep 2020 08:55
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Chris S.
Hello everyone,
We are currently finalizing the plans for our single-family home. We are building a traditional solid brick house with a prefabricated house provider.
The offered price from the house supplier includes, as I believe is common with most providers, a two-stringer solid wood staircase made of finger-jointed beech. Since we don’t like the look of beech for aesthetic reasons, we would like to upgrade to knotty oak. The supplier is charging an additional 5,100 euros plus about 700 euros for an oiled finish. Do you think this extra cost is justified? The staircase itself remains the same, just oak instead of beech. It seems a bit high to me, especially since acquaintances have mentioned surcharges of around 2,000 euros.
Perhaps someone here has experience they could share with us. Thanks in advance.
We are currently finalizing the plans for our single-family home. We are building a traditional solid brick house with a prefabricated house provider.
The offered price from the house supplier includes, as I believe is common with most providers, a two-stringer solid wood staircase made of finger-jointed beech. Since we don’t like the look of beech for aesthetic reasons, we would like to upgrade to knotty oak. The supplier is charging an additional 5,100 euros plus about 700 euros for an oiled finish. Do you think this extra cost is justified? The staircase itself remains the same, just oak instead of beech. It seems a bit high to me, especially since acquaintances have mentioned surcharges of around 2,000 euros.
Perhaps someone here has experience they could share with us. Thanks in advance.
As is often the case, it is important to know all the details. For example, at the time I paid nearly 2,500 EUR for the upgrade of the already installed oak staircase to "smoked and oiled oak." However, this also included changing the construction from a bolted stringer staircase to a closed stringer staircase, as well as making the steps from selected solid timber blocks instead of the standard finger-jointed wood. To me, the additional cost seemed reasonable.
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fach1werk10 Sep 2020 19:21We had a list that included all the trades involved. Do you have something like that as well? You might want to ask the staircase builder who would supply the beech staircase. You leave the beech staircase in the contract, he delivers the oak staircase, the homeowners pay him an additional charge, and the construction company doesn’t take any cut. Maybe that would be more appealing.
Best regards
Gabriele
Best regards
Gabriele
I really didn’t like the beech color at all. So, I arranged to have the staircase stained white. However, this didn’t turn out well, and the stair builder offered to apply wax instead.
Now I have a really beautiful, light (almost white) staircase, where no one would guess it’s beech. The additional cost per level was €300.
I’m not sure if this method could also create an oak look, but I just wanted to point out that there are other ways to change the character of the wood.
Now I have a really beautiful, light (almost white) staircase, where no one would guess it’s beech. The additional cost per level was €300.
I’m not sure if this method could also create an oak look, but I just wanted to point out that there are other ways to change the character of the wood.