A false tread would be any stair tread that you wouldn't
use to walk up and down a stairway. The picture below provides you with
an excellent example of what I'm talking about.
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The most common use for these types of stair treads
are shown in the picture above. There're use to provide the end of the
stairway with a rich looking architectural design.
False treads are usually cut and shaped by the finish stair carpenter.
They can be cut out of a variety of materials, especially if they're
going to be painted.
Without these pieces of wood at the bottom of a stair handrailing
system, the carpet installer, would have a difficult time, cutting
around each individual baluster. Construction problems like these are
usually hard to foresee in advance.
Make sure that you spend enough time, designing your stairway, before
you ever start to build it. Trust me, I can't tell you how many
stairways I've worked on, that required lots of money, to solve the
problems after the stairway was built, that could have been eliminated,
before building them.
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