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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Laying Out Stairs and Rails: Rise, Run, Stringers, Headroom, and Rails, with Thirty Layout Problems and 421 Practice Exercises

Laying Out Stairs and Rails: Rise, Run, Stringers, Headroom, and Rails, with Thirty Layout Problems and 421 Practice Exercises

Press, Talor

Paperback

CarpentryGeneral Construction & Renovation

ISBN13: 9798175811606
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A stair is decided by one dimension: the total rise. Everything else follows from it, and getting it wrong is not something you fix later.

Thirty-two lessons in six parts cover the geometry of a stair from the floor-to-floor dimension to a marked stringer: total rise and how it is measured, dividing it into equal risers, types of stair and what each one changes, nosings, tread depth and the comfort relationships, stringer layout and the drop, headroom and where it is tightest, landings and winders, concrete and pan stairs, exterior steps and site stairs, handrail heights and guard geometry, newels and terminations, tolerance and the decision, and the ten-line stair check.

Two lessons here repay the price of the book on their own. Riser height must be equal within a very small tolerance across the whole flight, so the total rise is divided rather than assumed. And the stringer drop, the amount cut off the bottom so the first riser finishes equal to the rest, catches people who have built stairs for years.

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