Flooring/carpentry help
Flooring/carpentry help
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@terry_cloth - Yeah the whole setup is more of less a lawsuit waiting to happen. My dad (a lawyer) suggested we put up a railing that separates the upper dining area from the sunken living room area, but that would just look hideous.
The step down is a lot greater of a danger than the lip of the cap piece. And since all of the flooring is the same color it's easy for people to miss the step. It's happened before. When we have parties or large gatherings I cover the top of the entire cap piece with blue painters tape to make it more visible.
Eventually my wife and I want to replace the flooring and raise the sunken living room, but considering the cost involved it's quite low on the list of priorities.
- split levels are not considered unsafe, plenty of people have them, it was quite a fad in residential architecture not too long ago. trip hazards are a differenterry_cloth
- -t issue. you have a large protuberance who's only function is to cover up shitty DIY workmanship on the finish edges of the flooringterry_cloth
- not a worth while trade off imoterry_cloth
- never mind that laminate hardwood flooring is packed with fucked up carcinogensterry_cloth