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Post by andy on Oct 25, 2008 20:54:45 GMT
Are they your main stairs?
where are the spindles
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Post by jfc on Oct 25, 2008 21:06:38 GMT
I think thats more 1970's ;D
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Post by jonnyd on Oct 25, 2008 21:10:21 GMT
My mates house has some stairs like tusses. The house was built around the early seventies. The stairs are rock solid with solid planks up the side instead of spindles.
jon
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Post by tusses on Oct 25, 2008 21:21:53 GMT
They are the only stairs in the house. it was converted from 2 cottages to 1 house circa 1940. no spindles ! low ceilings  |
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Post by mrgrimsdale on Oct 25, 2008 21:38:53 GMT
Tusses' modern stair not what I was on about. My cottage stairs have 2 bearers the same also have winders, risers and are cased in, wall on one side, match-board the other, with a door at the bottom.
cheers
Jacob
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Post by tusses on Oct 25, 2008 21:50:40 GMT
I didn't think mine were what you were on about . I just hadent seen any like it till I moved in here and this thread seemed like the right place to ask what was going on |
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Post by jfc on Oct 25, 2008 22:30:57 GMT
Tusses , your stairs are basic open tread stairs they have just not put the risers in . They have however used solid timber .
Open tread staircases normally or traditionally have a central string to support the run , this is cut out like your open string and they have a closed string on the wall side ( like im guessing you have ? ) The wall side is housed in and glued and wedged .
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Post by tusses on Oct 26, 2008 13:43:05 GMT
both are the same, about a 1/4 in from each edge
I dont know if you noticed ?.... - they are basically a pair of 2x5's leaning on the landing, with triangle bits nailed on for the treads to sit on
That was the bit that seemed unusual to me. I would have expected 2x12's with the triangles cut out ?
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Post by mrgrimsdale on Oct 26, 2008 14:00:06 GMT
basically a pair of 2x5's leaning on the landing, Thats "carriage" construction, but an open tread version. Not much different from what you've got but more expensive and wasteful if you did it from 12" cheers Jacob |
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Post by thatsnotafestool on Oct 26, 2008 14:19:03 GMT
I saw the owner today ...... All MDF  18mm MDF strings with 25mm treads fixed by screwing through the strings and some battern underneath it . A battern screwed to the tread to fix the riser to . f**k**g cowboys !!!!  Why not a whisper to Building Control? |
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Post by tusses on Oct 27, 2008 12:37:15 GMT
basically a pair of 2x5's leaning on the landing, Thats "carriage" construction, but an open tread version. Not much different from what you've got but more expensive and wasteful if you did it from 12" cheers Jacob well - as long as they have a propa name TBH - is seems like a real sensible way to make stairs ! dead easy . Even I could do it LOL  |
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Post by jfc on Oct 27, 2008 22:24:55 GMT
Its just as easy to make them properly , all you are doing is enclosing the treads and risers into the string . Even a Jacobs ladder has some kind of real construction and will last a few hundred years .
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Post by engineerone on Oct 27, 2008 22:36:14 GMT
blimey i didn't kow he was that multi tasking ;D ladders by jacob has a whole new ring about it  nice stairs though paul  |
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