Stair Design

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Stair Design in 7 Easy Steps

Part of our ‘Staircase Basics’ Guide Previous Page | Next Page | Contents Let’s assume now you’ve had time to download StairDesigner, watch our starter series of videos and test it out….

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How to Extend Step and Riser Housings

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to extend the step and/or the riser recesses in a boxed string beyond the limits of the string. This tutorials shows you how. Extending the housings…

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Using the Rising Angle to Calculate a Stair

How to use StairDesigner to calculate a stair for a given angle rather than a given flight length. 1. Calculating the approximate stair length Open a new stair and in the Stairwell…

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How to design a staircase for an awkward space

A staircase can be an important, if not the most important, architectural feature of a building. The stair will need to be designed to optimise the available space within a building and…

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Free Stair Design Software – StairDesigner and More

Get everything you need to build your own stair projects… Find out how to use and download our free stair design software from our website. We’ve also linked to other free stair…

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How many stairs in a flight?

Well, the title is a bit misleading. People sometimes talk about stairs in a flight, but really we’re talking about answering the question, how many steps in a flight of stairs? The…

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Metal Stair Design using StairDesigner and our StairFile Service

A big thank you to Thierry for this article explaining how he redesigned and rebuilt a staircase with metal strings around the original wooden steps. Thierry worked up this metal stair project…

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Stair Designs by an Exceptional Craftsman

A while ago we heard from Tasos Vardopoulos in Athens, who told us about his wooden stair designs and construction process. We were incredibly impresses by the quality of his work and…

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