Stairs are the most common way that allows easy and quick access to the different floors of a building. They are a series of steps arranged in a way they make different floors of a building connected. People often use the term  staircase and stairway for the same purpose, but actually a staircase is an enclosure which contains the complete stairway. There are more terms used in the process of constructing a stairway that the carpenters or construction workers use for better understanding what they are dealing with. Here are the definitions and visual display about all of them.

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