Patent ID: 7497060

Claim:
A method for forming a finished skirt/fascia board appearance in a stairway produced with the use of movable parallel stringers and tread/riser support brackets comprising the steps of: a) forming a pair of stringers as elongated planar boards having an upper surface, a lower surface, a front surface and a back surface, b) forming a contoured face along at least one of said upper or lower surface of said stringers, said contoured face on each stringer adapted to mate with a similar contoured surface of another stringer, b) positioning said stringers parallel to and spaced from each other as upper and lower stringers with said contoured surfaces of both of said stringers spaced from and facing each other, c) pivotally attaching a plurality of equally spaced tread/riser support brackets along said spaced parallel stringers, d) moving one of said stringers with respect the other stringer while retaining said stringers parallel so as to position said tread/riser support brackets in a desired orientation, e) releasing the pivotal attachment of said equally spaced tread/riser support brackets to the upper stringer of said parallel stringers while retaining said tread/riser support brackets in said desired orientation, f) vertically moving said upper stringer toward said lower stringer to mate said contoured face of each stringer with each other stringer to produce a finished skirt/fascia board appearance at said mating surface and to conceal behind said tread/riser support bracket any mounting mark on the front of said upper stringer from said prior pivotal mounting of said tread/riser brackets, g) permanently fixing said tread/riser support brackets to said upper and lower parallel and mating risers so as to produce said finished skirt/fascia board appearance along said stairway.