Hi, I am working on remodeling my home, I want to give my stair a modern look, so I want to built a (bevel riser/ kick back stair), but I have no experience with this type of stair. I want to build a housed stringer on the right side of my wall and an exposed stringer on the left side with the bevel riser. If you have any type of experience with this type of stairs I will appreciate any advice.
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Be careful. That staircase looks like it may be steeper than legal. If you rebuild it you have meet current code, and you may not have enough room to do that.
Double check your local code's rise/run and landing size restrictions before you demo what's there.
(Love your decorating scheme.)
Man, please have mercy on us dial uppers..can ya shrink it a bit? I am still waiting..
OK just got it..Jezzus..lose the landing and make the winders at the top...shoot for a less steep slope..what the heck are they? 45*?
I am doing a similar re-do in my home..you may want the "stair builders handbook" an odd size book in paperback..green cover. Craftsman book Co. 6058 Corte Del Cedro, P.O. Box 6500 , Carlsbad ( bad, bad boy) Ca. 92009. written by T.W. Love...mine is so old I can't really read it, so i memorized it.....all the 65,000 tables for FF to FF heights, and every run ..whew. )G(
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Tommy, can you hear me?
Why look here?
Stairs are too steep and do not meet code. Have someone who has big feet walk down the stairs without killing himself.
Your stairs are, as the others have mentioned, fairly steep stairs. That being the case, I would recommend you build the staircase with no risers so that feet can slide further forward on the climb. See the picture below of a similarly steep stair I built into a house that was only 20 feet wide with a structural beam running down the center which prevented us from having enough run to make them any shallower.
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These stairs were built from 2x10 pine; the stringers are mortised ¾" for the treads, which were glued and screwed in. (The mushroom caps for the screws had not been installed when this photo was taken.) If it's a modern look you're after, this could be a possibility.
I am not addressing any code issues here; you have what looks to be a non-code stair grandfathered in place, but possibly you could get a variance to replace it with the same. I don't know what code you have to conform to; here there are exception clauses in the annex for residential renovation to allow creative solutions to thorny problems like this one. The Canadian authorities judged that in a residential setting, where one family is used to going up and down non-standard stairs all the time, the danger level is sufficiently lessened by that to permit exceptions.
Dinosaur
A day may come when the courage of men fails,when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship...
But it is not this day.
Did ya ever add a handrail?
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"Yup, I really bought this place, wanna shoot me? Please?
Nope. The owner is six feet tall, a retired merchant sailor, and comes down those stairs by reaching up to grab on to the stairwell ledge as he walks down under it. Figure just before he sells it he'll have to add 'lubber rails'....
Dinosaur
A day may come when the courage of men fails,when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship...
But it is not this day.