I am shopping for a spiral stair case. I see there are several packages for sale in the Classifieds section. Are these any good? How do I distinguish quality? Should it be stick built?
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my father and i built a spiral staircase for a friends home with my dad's design and it turned out great. stairs are tricky and sprials even more so. one thing on stairs is that each rise or step should be the exact same dimension so you have to measure between the floors and divide it EXACTLY for the number of steps. if you have one 11" step and the rest at 10&1/4" you will trip on the 11"! whether it is built of wood or metal or whatever else it is a highly custom job. what we did was to make a pattern and duplicate it for each step. then we made boxes to go between the steps. the steps and boxes were then installed on a threaded rod that was installed between floors. we then rotated steps and boxes to the proper location and tightened them all together with a nut and washer. then we installed 2x2's, two for each step on the outside, 1 front, 1 back going from the bottom of the step to the ceiling extending up past for the railing for the second floor where applicable. this turned out to be a simple method allowing adjustment so we could get it just right and it was very cheap to do. we all got a kick out of one how to book's instructions on how to build spiral stairs, " to build spiral stairs you need a very skilled carpenter". that was the entire chapter