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Simplified Stair Building With Landings
Simplified Stair Building With Landings
Simplified Stair Building With Landings
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written dedicated specifically to building stairs with landings.

About the Author

Greg Vanden Berge has installed over a thousand stairways and started his career in construction building stairs for his father who learn the craft from his father. He currently has over 30 years of construction experience and has written over 40 books.

He's a best-selling international author and lives with his wife in Southern California.

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Release dateAug 1, 2012
ISBN9781476382197
Simplified Stair Building With Landings
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Greg Vanden Berge

Born, raised and still living in Southern California, United States of America. I don't know if I would consider myself to be another typical high school dropout, but in the 11th grade I took and passed a high school equivalency test that allowed me to leave school one year early. From then on it was the school of hard knocks and when I finally figured out this wasn't going to work, became a student of life. I have over 35 years of experience building, remodeling and repairing apartments, condominiums, residential homes and commercial as well as industrial properties. My interests are history, psychology, business, construction, gardening and thoroughly enjoy sharing the things I've learned with anyone willing to listen. There is nothing better than spending time with friends and family having a wonderful meal, a few beers and intelligent conversation.

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    Simplified Stair Building With Landings - Greg Vanden Berge

    Simplified Stair Building With Landings

    By Greg Vanden Berge

    Published by Greg Vanden Berge at Smashwords

    Copyright 2012 Greg Vanden Berge

    Greg's Books

    Home Buyers Checklist

    How To Build Straight Stairs

    501 Contractor Tips

    Simplified Stair Building

    Guide For Hiring Contractors

    Simplified Bracket Stair Building

    Simplified Tile Floor Installation

    Simplified House Inspection Checklist

    Simplified Home Inspections

    Advanced Stair Stringer Layout Methods

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    Greg Vanden Berge, and its owners, agents and employees, make no warranty respecting the accuracy or currency of any information in the content or pages of this book or any source document referenced herein or linked to herein. Use of this book is conditioned on the user's understanding and agreement that we shall not be liable, on any theory whatsoever, including but not limited to negligence, for any damages attributable to that use.

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    Table of Contents

    Stair Parts

    Measuring The Stairway

    Single Mid Landing

    Building The Stairs

    Landing Heights

    Horizontal Landing Location

    Long Stringer Layout

    Bonus Book – Simple Stair Stringer Layout

    Bottom Stringer Layout - Simple Landing Method

    Stair Building Codes

    Stair Building Glossary

    Stair Parts

    This illustration should give you a general idea about what parts of the stairs go where and what they're called. If you need more information about certain parts of a stairway, then feel free to visit our online glossary.

    http://stairs4u.com/glossary.htm

    Measuring The Stairway

    Rise

    This is the overall vertical measurement of the stairway. The rise will be the measurement in between floors. This would be the vertical distance (up and down) from the bottom floor to the top floor.

    In order to make things as simple as possible, we're going to use 7 1/2 inch risers in every example, of this book.

    Riser

    This is the vertical distance in between each tread or step. If the overall rise measurement of our stairway is 105 inches and we know we're going to use 14 risers, then we simply divide 14 into 105, to find out the height of each individual riser.

    14 divided into 105 inches provides us with a 7 1/2 inch riser. This is one of the measurements we will use on our framing square, when laying out our stair stringer, however your riser measurement could be different.

    Run

    This is the overall horizontal measurement of the stairs with out the landing. Most of the time the individual stair step or tread measurement will determine the run.

    For example: If a 10 inch wide tread along with the individual riser measurement, created the perfect step then we’ll use it to figure out the length or run of the stairway. Instead of taking an overall horizontal measurement and dividing it by the amount of treads (like we did with the overall rise), we're going to take the individual tread measurement and multiply it by the amount of steps required to build the stairs, to figure out the overall length or run of the stairway.

    Tread

    This is the individual horizontal distance and width that will represent each step on the stairway. The most common stair tread width used in

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