So you are using a sub stringer for the main stringers? If so when you cut out the triangles out of the 2x10 your left with 3" of wood to hold all of the weight of the entire stair case. The longer the stringer the weaker the stair case becomes and will break that 3" of wood. The cut out stringers are meant for the center of the stair case and are to be attached to the left and right 2x10 solid stringers. The solid stringers also hide the endgrain of all the treads and risers.
please teach all the other so called teachers on youtube this video..this was the most informative video i have seen on laying out stairs..hats off!!!
J Black
Thank you M. Black
Just what I needed to the point and how and why the ends look the way they do, thanks. Building stairs with my son this coming weekend.
Thanks. I hope everything works out well.
Michael
So you are using a sub stringer for the main stringers? If so when you cut out the triangles out of the 2x10 your left with 3" of wood to hold all of the weight of the entire stair case. The longer the stringer the weaker the stair case becomes and will break that 3" of wood. The cut out stringers are meant for the center of the stair case and are to be attached to the left and right 2x10 solid stringers. The solid stringers also hide the endgrain of all the treads and risers.
Hi Craig
This video is meant to show how to build simple construction stairs, not finished stairs.
The only teacher that's shows you how to do it simply.
Thank you Seymour
Very informative... thank you ... do you do metal channel stringers as well?
Hi Steph
For metal stringers the math is the same - same unit run and unit rise and same reductions.
definitely a step in the right direction