A DIY: The Stair Project. Part Four, The Landing.
Whooo it's been an embarrassing stitch of time here, getting back onto the DIY Stair Project. I've been a tad busy. But today, we're one step (ahhhhh haaa ha, pun) closer to done with the landing.
Yes, the landing. Finally. Omg. Finally.
This was a design and installation quandary which always takes me plenty of brain effort. Mostly in the installation head space arena as I had to sort of reverse engineer how to get it in there. Math.
Well, ok, in fairness, the design took some time to figure too.
What I did know, to begin with, was I was using the same 1870's pine rafters as the stair treads. But how" Ah yes, therein lay the dilemma.
My Trusty Furry Assistant doing his evaluation and calculations as well on this landing before.See, stairs have a best-practices formula to them. Typically a rise (the vertical) plus the run (the horizontal tread) must add up to a total of about seventeen to seventeen and a half inches. This is typically what code requires. Anything that varies from that generally will be a safety and/or tripping hazard as this formula is now ingrained into our souls, our natural stair cadence expectations.
Our stair" Yeah. No. Though now, each tread of our new stair is the same, each riser is still a bit different, especially once we hit the landing.
If you remember, which I'd rather not, our stair was originally built of construction grade two by twelve slathe...
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