Imperative steps in stair construction

By Ibrahim Careys

All high-rise buildings need a well-constructed staircase to access other rooms or houses in the same building. Good stairs have three basic characteristics. They are stable, reliable and safe.

Unlike in the past when basic staircases were provided, contemporary builders need consider other uses including health. Modern home and office stairs should serve both physically fit and the challenged equally.

Unfortunately, most of the tall buildings around do not have such provisions. Modern buildings require fundamental construction and outstanding carpentry skills. It also demands mapping knowledge, good geometric skill, expert sketching and stairs-making craftsmanship.

The truth is, stairway construction, design and planning can be tricky and complicated. When building home or office stairs, it is imperative to seek expertise and follow stairway building and safety recommendations. Here are seven important steps in building a good stairway.

Mapping. Make a clear plain side view drawing of the staircase. This includes the total rise and run of the stairs — its tread and riser. Treads are the higher flat region of a step or girth of that tread. A riser is the upright region between two stair-treads.

Scaling: Scale the stair riser and tread to size, considering the plumb and the flat landing flights for a good blusterer and balustrade. This aids you to draw the tread and riser of the stairs right. Good stairs should give climbing support and step sustaining balustrade. It should also give rest at corridors — landings.

Approval: Make unhurried and correct endorsement of the stairs scaling. Measure the nosing and stringers to get the total rise and the total run of the whole stairs. Nosing is the detachment that a tread extends above its riser.

Configuration: Verify your approved endorsement by getting the number of risers, treads, nosing, balustrade, newel and step landings of the stairs. Ensure your task organisation is up to standard. Balustrades are the group of blusters that includes the handrails and newel. A newel is the post at the base of a staircase or one at its landing step. The landing step is the horizontal, flat level of the staircase, usually at the end of a step running stairways.

Confirmation: Once you approve the staircase configuration, it is advisable to validate your whole stairs. Map and scale by authenticating all treads, risers, landings, balustrade, newel, nosing and stringers. Here, spacing is very important.

consistency

Conformity: This includes building the stairs to standard by making strong and firmly built stairs that offer good ascend and descend balustrades and landing spaces. Compliance and consistency is vital for conformity.

Stringer creation: Stringers are the vertical support for the treads of the stairs. It is often a 12 by 15 inches rectangular cardboard or wood from which you can make the precise viewpoints (angles) of the stairs that can help you create the crest and the base stringers of the stairs.