Stair edging is used to protect the stair nosing that's
located at the front edge of the stair step or tread. The picture below
provides you with an excellent example of how stair edging attaches to
each individual step.
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Why Doesn't Every Stairway Use Stair Edging?
Some designers don't like the looks, increases building costs and
sometimes it's just hard to get. The main reason though is that the most
popular stairs built today, use concrete, wood and carpeting to finish
the stairs and these products are usually tough enough, on their own.
If you didn't use a stair edging in the picture above, especially for
stone tiles, the front edges of them would eventually chip, crack and
flaked off. The stair edging will reduce or eliminate the possibility of
this ever happening.
Stair Edging And Outdoor Carpeting
If you're going to install outdoor carpeting over a stairway, you should
use stair edging to protect the carpeting. In the military, this would
be a direct order, but since were not in the military, I will just
highly recommended it.
Let's just say that you didn't take my advice and within a few months
you started to notice that the front edge of each step was starting to
show signs of wear and tear. Now would be the best time to take my
advice and install the stair edging, over the carpeting, before you need
to replace the outdoor carpeting, again.
Like I said earlier, there are going to be certain times when you must
install some type of stair edging, and other times when you won't, it
all depends upon the types of materials that are going to be using and
the amount of traffic that the stairway is going to be receiving.
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