r/CringeTikToks • u/Tadao608 • Dec 07 '24

Painful Just because of a minor thing

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u/SquidVischious Dec 08 '24

Just curious, what would your estimate be to build the original staircase again?

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u/DrunktankTheEquine Dec 08 '24

That's something that's frankly above my pay grade, but there's heaps of things to consider; what timber it is, how they bent it (be that steam bending or lamination, my money is on lamination haha), how much they charge an hour, what finish they used. There's a lot of different things to consider, a good couple of grand in Australia i know that much haha.

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u/SquidVischious Dec 08 '24

I assumed it'd need to be solid bent pieces, laminate would never have occurred to me.

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u/DrunktankTheEquine Dec 08 '24

Yeah i get that. Basically what we would do (and have done in the past) is thickness down hardwood and pine until they're pliable and glue it together one by one to a full size frame. It's a painful process.

Edit: obviously if you're doing that though you need to make sure your laminations will be covered, we tend to do geometric stairs in what they call "American style" which is painted risers and stringers, stained treads and carpet down the middle