Steel stringers are pre-welded to support oak, pine, or mahogany treads. You simply bolt the stringers to the header and floor and then bolt the treads to the stringers. Balusters bolt to the treads and handrail. One of the most confusing tasks when building a stair is laying out and cutting the stair stringers—the angled beams that run from lower to upper floors and are notched to carry each stair tread.
This job is actually a lot easier than it looks when you know how to do it. This video does a good job of showing you how to make a simple template for measuring and marking stair stringers. Spiral stairs are ideal for reaching attic or basement rooms and for two-story additions. They are also a popular choice for secondary access to rooms. Manufacturers make spiral stairs in steel, aluminum, hardwoods, and combinations of these materials. Although some specialize in making only hardwood or metal, many companies make both.
They typically offer a few basic designs that can be customized by selecting from a smorgasbord of treads, balusters, railings, and other options. The range of options is vast. Hardwood stairs come in red oak, poplar, white oak, ash, walnut, mahogany, cherry, and other species. Steel and aluminum stairs come in a variety of finishes, from hot-dipped galvanized to custom color coatings. Treads may be flat or embossed steel, gratings, hardwood, rubber, or plywood, or steel base for carpeting.
And so on. When ordering a spiral stair, you usually choose the direction of twist right hand railing up or left hand railing up and you always specify the diameter. Most manufacturers offer several standard diameters: 4 feet; 4 feet 4 inches; 5 feet; 5 feet 4 inches; 6 feet; 6 feet 6 inches, and larger for safety, stairs 4 feet in diameter and smaller are not recommended.
One key choice you must make when selecting a spiral stair is whether to buy a knocked-down kit or a complete one-piece unit. Though kits are cheaper and considerably easier to ship, one-piece stairs tend to be more durable, are less likely to come apart or rust because they have fewer joints, are lighter in weight, and can be installed in as little as ten minutes compared to three or four hours for a kit.
Many kits, for example, come only with flexible vinyl railings. Of course, if you intend to hire a couple of workers for three or four hours to install a kit, freight savings can be quickly swallowed up by labor costs. For destinations where freight of a complete unit would be prohibitive, the company also sells stairs that are disassembled into two or three sections.
Most circular stairs are custom designed for high-end houses and installed during house construction by a talented stair builder. Some come as completely pre-assembled units. Stairs, for example, builds fine-quality hardwood stairs from any of several different hardwoods and ships them to the job site on a company truck with a factory-trained driver who supervises the installation, which takes about an hour. Curved walls are built by the job carpenter after the stair is installed.
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