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very fun!
thanks!
my mom has a stairway like this one leading to the attic computer office.
I can attest that it hurts like hell to bounce down it and you have a 50/50 chance of a deep bone bruise on the shins to try and go up it.
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I kinda liked this one but the code folks would have a hemorrhage over it.
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Actually, I saved that picture. Pshaw to the code folks...it's cool. And useful!
Actually, I was thinking this one might be kind of dangerous...
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It makes me dizzy. Did I do some LSD and just forget? With weed, no one would EVER get up those stairs!
The slide one is the one I want in my house
you and me both!
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Very cool. I've got a salvaged sliding companionway hatch off a 1926 Alden sailboat that I am going to use when I make an attic room, hopefully with Tansu style stairs. Mike
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.
Those are some 'thinking outside the box' stairways! I particularly like the hollowed out tree trunk one! Instead of adding material to build a stairway like I always do, it would be a rush to have to 'remove' what it 'NOT' a stairway! That is very impressive.
Stan
cool.
are those pics all from one source?
I have a great pic from a castle in England, turret stairs. I was about 30 lbs thinner then and walking up on the tour, walking pretty much sideways, wearing a leather jacket that scraped both shoulders made it tough to imagine the knights running down the same stairs in full armour for battle hard to imagine!
One guy trips ... take about a death spiral!
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Friend just sent them in an email the other day. Don't know where she got them.
Thought they were cool enough to post on BT. Makes one pause and consider.
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wow rez i didn't know you were so talented!
ya, just from a few things I picked up listening to you guys yak on BT for the last 7 years or so.
be as IMERC would say,
cake and pie
made me pause, consider ... copy and save to the pic's!
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Most of them are from
stairporn.com
Nate
it's .org
but thanks for the addy. Have it bookmarked, haven't been thru yet.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
"to imagine the knights running down the same stairs in full armour for battle hard to imagine!"One reason for that spiral turret style of stair to be that tight was so an attacker could not fight his way UP it
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Thanks! A nice treat on a cold morning while sipping hot coffee!!
Doug
So how does one go about adding a drawer to the bottom stair like in the first picture. What are the considerations to doing this in an existing stair case?
"What are the considerations to doing this in an existing stair case?"
step one ... start on a slab or have considerable headroom downstairs.
if there's room ... cut out the riser ... and build a drawer front with drawer. (if I'm thinking of the right picture)
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. . . and never leave it open, especially if there's someone upstairs !Greg
the wife saw some pic's of under the stair storage, might have been something Ralph Wickland built. So she decided that'd be great and we needed something similar.
I said as soon as I built that, I'd start working on the ladder down to the basement .... a firemans pole might work too.
she looked confused till I asked what was right under the staircase ...
the cellar stairs!
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
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My first consideration would be appraising the cross strength of the tread to hold weight without the riser.
If bouncy in a worse case scenario perhaps a perpendicular to the riser 2x joist splitting the desired drawer into 2 drawers and giving support to the tread above.
Dang, now you have me considering it. :o)
"Chand Baori is a famous stepwell situated in the village of Abhaneri near Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. This step well is located opposite Harshat Mata Temple and is one of the deepest and largest stepwells in India. It was built in the 9th century and has 3500 narrow steps and 13 stories and is 100 feet deep."
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Interesting photos! What is at the bottom of the stepwell? Water?
Got a link to that? It seems the entry would have to be pretty huge since it reduces at each level. Mike
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Anyone know what the standard headroom for a stair case is? I might have the space to add that drawer or even two.
6' 8" is what we're required here. I assume that's pretty universal.John Svenson, builder, remodeler, NE Ohio
Are you speaking of building a new staircase or retroing an old?
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I'll be retrofitting an old staircase. Its a 1950s cape code with a basement stairs beneath. Rough measurements suggest I could squeeze in 12" deep boxes and still meet the 6'8" height. (I assume I measure from the tip of a tread up?The best part of this is these stairs are right in front of the front door. All those kids shoes can now be hidden.
Ah, I see. Kind of limits the potential but doable to a degree.
Ruff- that's the only link I took it from.
stairporn.org and stairporn.com both worked the same here.
I would build the first 2-3 steps as stacking boxes with the drawer inside each, then build the rest of the flight on up
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