Oh heck yeah. Oak is way stronger. Hard to work with as well. It does not like nails very well. I've tried working with it in the past using hammer and nails and it is very tough to keep from bending nails. The step treads I found at HD last night are 36" long pine of some sort. They look laminated in some manner and they are tough. I stood on one with the ends barely captured and it hardly flexed at all. I was surprised. The oak I found ($25 a tread...uh like no way at 10 treads) was even less giving. Way more dense and much heavier at the same thickness. I have no idea how craftsman work with teak and other words even harder than oak. It's truly a skill. I plan on using the 36" pine treads at $10 a piece and shimming them. I found 7/16" x 1.5" wide lattice wood that will make perfect shims between the tread runner and stringer for a great result. I will pocket the back side of the tread as well so it will go deeper into the stringer than the run length. This will allow me to then use a more conventional method of closing them in while still providing maximum footing depth for safety. These old houses with 84" ceiling basements and short run stairwells were not designed for rooms being placed in the basement. I can get close to code (9" minimum run) but It is impossible to hit it and still have clearance at the bottom with regard to the stairwell wall face. IT BE WHAT IT BE.Originally Posted by draggin50
Carpet is on order as well so I have to get this done before they call to schedule it to be installed. May be done by New Years or close to it but realistically it will likely be February before the system is in and working. Plenty of audio calibration and speaker placement left to get through as well as connections and ethernet for the devices to be linked to the network through a switch to the router.
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