Wheaton Tools PL600 Stair Genie Skirt/Stringer Layout Gauge

by Wheaton Tools

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

If you have ever had to notch cut a skirt to fit an existing profile, you know what a difficult and time-consuming layout job this can be--and how easy it is to make a mistake. The Stair Genie simply transfers the stair profile--any stair profile--directly onto the skirt material. It completely eliminates the need for complex measurements, templates or figuring of any kind. Your layout time will go from hours to minutes with less error. Complete with parallel edge gauge, and easy to follow instructions and fitted case.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0000224Q0
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: PL600
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #718,802 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Looks can be deceiving, July 5, 2001

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Jonathan Conway "stairgod" (Schuylkill Haven, Pa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wheaton Tools PL600 Stair Genie Skirt/Stringer Layout Gauge (Tools & Home Improvement)

Do not buy this tool unless you will be laying out skirt boards for stairs that have less than a 7 7/8" rise as this gauge will not adjust above that. Also, if the stair you are skirting happens to have more than a 1/2" bow in the middle, it better have a 7 3/4" or 7 5/8" rise. With carewful modification I was able to elongate the slots for the parallel gauge to allow for use on a higher rise stair, but then the profile gauge they supply comes up short in the height department. Use of a 10" profile gauge remedied that situation. Why the manufacturer would even sell a tool with such limited capacity is beyond me, as anyone involved in renovations of older homes knows that very seldom are you going to encounter less than an 8" rise on a staircase(the exception being some old Victorians with 11 runs and 6 1/2" rises which number 2 in my career). Maybe on the west coast things are different.