Any ideas for how these treads are connected to the risers?
Not sure if this is the right subreddit, but I thought I'd give it a try.
Been taking my time working on these stairs for about 2.5yr. The house was built in 1960. They started off with that horrible shag carpet, and then after ripping out more carpet staples than I knew existed on this planet, we found the lovely cork inlay waiting patiently underneath.
Hoping to refinish them, and it would be much easier to remove them one at a time to do this (you can see that whoever painted the spindles & *stringers was kind enough to get the paint all over the treads too).
I've lifted a small piece of cork inlay up from directly where the *stringer lines up, expecting to find some bolts or screws holding the tread into the *stringer. Instead, I just found plywood.
Any ideas for how these might be attached to the *stringers are welcome! I can confidently say they are connected somehow, more than wood glue, because of all the heavy items that have been hauled up and down these things. And not gently done, at that.