How to Make A Vinyl Plank Stair Nosing

hey everybody Chris Palmer from the handcrafted by Chris Palmer Channel and today I've brought you back into the shop and I'm excited because you know what I wanted to do I want to do a little DIY on some vinyl plank flooring stair treads what if I showed you how to make them in one piece using the physical floor that's pretty slick now I'm going to show you how I did it and I'm going to show you the mistakes that I made along the way so that you can get it right your first time this is my unsuccessful heat Bend why is it unsuccessful it looks great looks cool quick in front of the camera but oh what happened there these sections here look cool and everything looks great but I was like God why is this not working like I want this to work and I'm like one guy just did it straight up with a heat gun and he rolled it over I heated both sides and tried to roll this over and this is how bad the cracking got so you really don't want to see this on your floor stair tread then I tried it again eat it up longer much longer this time with a longer heat job oh so clean looks nice there's nothing really wrong with that except for this the radius is inconsistent all the way across I didn't like it it wasn't perfect it didn't look clean it doesn't wrap into the 2x4 perfectly it has this bulging section in the middle it makes it rounder so I'm like God I got to get away from this how do I do it better and this is like 1 hour horrible amount of time wasted Sorry not wasted learning learning okay some unannounced video pops up in my feed after I do a couple searches cuz you know how it works I saw somebody do something smart that I should have thought of from the beginning they kind of dated out the back of their boards see those Doos they thinned out the material so that I could heat bend it in a matter of a minute so within no time whatsoever I have this amazingly perfect heat bent piece so here's my simple jig basically you'll see it literally is piece of plywood couple of scraps of some Douglas fur I had in the shop and in between the layers here what you'll notice that I've actually got a piece of flooring that rep is a representation of what I need to do when I wedge a new piece in and I'm making The Jig and I have to bend another piece I go like this I slide it in comment below if you have any questions on how this works but it's pretty simple it's two pieces of wood screwed to a a base with the piece of flooring in between to act as a divider so you get the right Tolerance on the squeeze the depth here from the top of this 2x Lumber is the depth I need for my radius to roll over and that is 1 in so basically I want this material to roll back 1 in and Tuck underneath my stair tread and this is the top of my tread that I would walk on and this is the under lip of where the Riser would start now how do I bend it over that jig right here and get that seam to roll well I've done it a couple ways let me show you what happens when we do it without Doos quick note on the tool I'll be using today is this heat gun I picked up from Canadian Tire here is the package that came in so if you want to get the exact one I'm using this is it it is a 15 amp three temperature gun um it did quite well a note that it does come with quite a few accessories and I used the wide fan tip on this because I wanted to make sure it was sending heat across in in that certain section on the board so I flick the heat gun on the highest setting and with the highest setting set I will now go ahead and begin to heat this up and the idea is to focus on the areas where it needs to flex over here over this area so I'm going to keep heating over these two to three Ines of material and as you can see I've dropped the front of my jig below the lip of this so I'm making sure to heat up the material that still has to flex over this because the material that sandwiched in here we don't want it to heat up we want to keep it stiff and rigid and nice and clean so with this gun on here and keep in mind this is a short piece so this is going to be a lot easier to heat up but you're still going to see what happens to the stress of it when we bend it and my technique is to heat this side the most and then go to the back and give it a little bit of heat too see it's starting to take shape you see how it's curving it doesn't want to bend right at the point so with that happening I have to leave it alone and then heat it up even more you see it's getting really soft and very pliable but it's not giving me what I want which is a nice flat face so in order to do that start pushing my 2x4 on [Applause] there I press on it and I would normally set up my clamps here and then the same thing on the back put another piece of lumber here this material is clamped onto there okay Top's clamped and then look at from the end here see how it bulges see it doesn't get nice and clean that whole problem is what I want to avoid so I try and slide these up but it doesn't work perfectly still has a little bit of warmth to it but there you go so even on a small piece stress fracture splitting on the material the radius not bad like no I don't think too many people would want to complain about that CU it looks pretty good but there's a flex here there's a dip in the surface here there's a bubble on the front and there's a split on the face for my standards I would not allow this I don't want this to happen in my client's home I want them to look nice so I'm going to try it with the DAT now so a quick little note safety gear on the saw set the fence up cuz I need an inch overhang so with the inch overhang I set it back 7/8 or 1316 and then I'm going to come forward another qu of an inch this way and that's to give that material clearance on that dado for the radius cuz the thickness of the material needs to be included in the radius so if you look at this you'll see how much material has been removed key obviously here is to make sure that the thickness and the depth of the blade is not higher than the material so we get enough to remove and it doesn't ruin what we're doing set your blade height make sure it's enough that takes out the material and leaves you some because the last thing you want is multiple pieces [Applause] [Music] we have to move the fence over now CU we finished at inch and eight and our next one is going to be an inch and a half difference is what we want to get to so an inch and a half is going to put us to two and 1/ half so I'm going to go back to 2 and 38 to do my first pass and you'll see here as I flip the piece over there's my first dado so that's approximately 38 wide 38 of an inch okay and that's what you want to see let's go for the second time D are nice and clean looking even now just to compare and show you why using the 2 by Lumber Dimension here you can see how nice it'll sit when we heat Bend those edges being extra thin not too thin though CU it's dimensionally stable but it allows us to be able to radius this Gap around the corners of this 2x Lumber so when our stair treads come back back our little 1-in return will tuck in nicely to the Riser and this will come back down on the tread and then butt in with another piece of flooring now you could set up your datal blades if you want to I just didn't feel like doing that today and I thought it'd be nice and easy cuz I only have six pieces to do if you don't have datal blades you can use a single blade with three passes to make up 38 all we're going to do is take our board line it up to the jig and drop it in making sure that the back is facing forward because we want it to wrap over the 2x6 okay so now the Doos are lined up over the corners everything looks good time to heat this one up and I'll put that on a time lapse I've got it wrapped and the nose is tucked in here on this end as it's being heated and you'll see here from this end I've got the little Doos right there on the ends you see where they allow that curve just to bend over it it makes it nice and tight we have have everything set up I'll probably wait about 2 to 3 minutes I can Mist it with water to help cool down a little bit faster but that generally gets you the idea of how it's going to look and then I'll pop it right out of the clamps in a moment here we go still I can feel a little bit of heat still it's a minimal amount pretty good oh there goes that piece of wood now with that scrap out of the way you can reach behind there it goes woo and that's how you do it without having any issues whatsoever because of the Doos in the back you get that relief and the heat a lot less material to heat up to bend and now we have these gorgeous looking stair nosings that'll blend right into a piece of flooring let me just show you how crazy it is so if I go ahead and I rip another piece of flooring and I put in the back of this one now we have seamless stair treads side by side the difference in these materials when they have a dado and no dado split in the face radius is larger not as tight and nice and clean as the one with the datto and as we move across you can obviously see the stress fractures in the material because it had too much material to bend on such a tight point and that made so much impact on the way this material wanted to fold no more purchasing those aftermarket pieces trying to make it yourself hope you loved the video and if you did click that little button down below that shows that you appreciate it leave a comment in the comment section and let me know if you want a video specifically or if you have a question about what I just did make sure you subscribe to my channel so you can keep up with what I'm throwing down thanks for watching check out on the next video peace out [Music]

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Id: RyahIIS6e3A

Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 05 2024