Staircases in Port Huron, MI

Knowing which house you are in decides everything. On a Craftsman stair the repairs are usually to the newel connection, which loosens over a century and lets the whole balustrade move, and to worn treads and open joints at the rail. Replacement balusters are straightforward to match because the section is simple, and a run with a few mismatched later additions can be brought back to one pattern cheaply. What we avoid is the upgrade people sometimes ask for after seeing it done in a newer house — swapping square Craftsman balusters for ornamental iron is a genuine downgrade in a house of this type, and we will say so before quoting it. On the nineteenth-century stairs in the older parts of the city we do the restoration work those need: turning replacement balusters to match a surviving original, re-anchoring newels, remaking opened handrail joints, and repairing individual treads while keeping the original stringer and skirt. Both types benefit from the same unglamorous fix — a squeaking stair is nearly always a tread moving, not a structural problem.

We assess before quoting and recommend the repair where a repair will do. Turning and joinery are matched at our Chesterfield shop to the pattern your stair already has.

Port Huron is about thirty miles from our Chesterfield shop, at the north end of the river run we work every week.