The stairs and railings in this home illustrate the use of a housed stringer where a cut stringer configuration could have been just as easily implemented. These stairs lead from the main floor to the basement and show the railing issues that need to be addressed when your stair starts off between two walls at the top and then becomes open on one side as you descend through the main floor level. This is an important consideration especially if you have no other access to the basement. If the stair is to narrow by the time you put wall railing in the opening you may not be able to move anything down into the space. This reaffirms the point that the stairs and railings must be planned for at the same time as a unit. The stairs and hand railing are all oak.
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This image shows 2 sets of stairs. The stair leading from
the top left of the image is partly between two walls at the top. The
upper set of stairs terminates at a landing, the landing turns you 90
degrees with the lower set of stairs ending on the basement floor. This is
a classic example of how the railing system works on top of an
exposed housed stinger. Notice the shoe mould on top and how the turning
detail in the middle of the balusters form a uniform angle as they cascade
down the length of the stair. Note the profile of each tread and riser is
not visible from the open side, rather one sees a 2 x 12 solid wood face
and the railing system positioned a top it.
1. points to the interior view of a housed stringer where one can see wood above the line of the tread 2. points to the end of the stairs which is usually about 3" from the last riser. This is important because if space is tight, you need to leave room for this. If this were a cut stringer then it would have ended behind the last riser. - if your browser supports the feature run your mouse around the image and important details will become visible about the item |
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This image shows one solution for dealing with a staircase
that is between walls for part of the stair. The chosen solution has the
stair being sized width wise to accommodate the railing with balusters to
be fully inside the walls at the start of the flight. The railing is
centered over the stringer, this was taken into consideration when
laying out the stairs as the stair needed to be narrow enough to fit
between the walls and further narrowed to allow the railing to function
inside as well. The layout had to allow the railing to overhang the
stringer while still allowing a full hand grip on the railing without
getting fingers pinched between the wall and the hand railing. The
railing is 3" wide and the stringer is 1 1/4" wide making the
railing overhang 7/8" on each side of the stringer. One must further
allow for finger room between the rail and the wall further reducing the
width of the stair within the opening. Normally when a housed
stringer is used, it will "hook" up over top of the main floor
in this instance however the nosing was to go right a across and the
standard hook was removed to facilitate this. Note the railing was
returned into the wall at the top.
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This image shows the interior of a H2S stair and gives a
good angle with which to view how the shoe mould sits on top of the stair
stringer.
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