By Karen Bellinger, Küberit Executive Director
Stairs! Ask flooring contractors where an install project slows down, and stairs will make the top of the list. Ask architects about the stair areas in a project plan, and they quickly detail the safety issues with stair surfaces and user visibility. Designers mention limitations with floor covering options for stairs and unmet goals to leverage their aesthetic potential. Further still, project owners quickly relay stories of the abuse stairs take daily, especially stair tread edges.
Küberit tackles these stair project issues with a comprehensive range of stair-nosing profiles, turning flooring challenges into design features. Küberit solves issues and opens design possibilities with:
Installation speed: Küberit stair-nosing profiles install quickly, allowing flooring pros to handle stair projects efficiently delivering project success
Safe surfaces: Ridged profile edges for built-in safety with an aesthetic presentation
Enhanced visibility: Stair-nosing profiles add the visual cues from step to step, highlighting surfaces with a variety of finish and color options
Profiles for all coverings: Küberit provides profiles for use with all floor coverings, including the fast-growing LVT category
Treads and risers: Profiles to fully integrate floor coverings used as treads and risers with a thoughtful solution for each angle
Edge protection: Every Kubert stair-nosing profile protects stair and floor covering edges
Custom colors: Matching brand, flooring designs, and special color requests are all fully doable
Küberit provides pre-fit and retrofit profile options to accommodate new construction and renovation projects and each for use with the different floor coverings, their varied thicknesses, and projects with no floor coverings for that matter. Project planners choose from twelve Küberit stair-nosing profile shapes all with the core Küberit strengths including:
- The most efficient, organized specification process in the industry
- Meticulous product engineering, including outstanding environmental stewardship
- Truly commercial-grade construction on which you can rely
- Design aesthetics to enhance every flooring and wall surface
- Fit and finish delivered on day one, and over the life cycle of the interior space
Küberit assists project planners and flooring professionals with transition, protection, ramping, edging, covering, and connecting needs, using the company’s profiles known for their engineering standards and attention to design details. Specifying Küberit profiles is an organized, efficient process with just five easy steps to select and specify just the right profile for any application.
“Stairs may be the ultimate combination of form, function, and aesthetic,” explained John Solberg, Business Development Director, Küberit USA. “Our stair-nosing profiles ensure stairs never go unnoticed and receive the protection needed for floor covering edges, but more importantly, for the people using the stairs each day.” Küberit stair-nosing profiles have opened up new design pathways for designers, addressed safety issues for architects, and turned stairs into a successful part of each project for installers.
