Techniques for Building Stairs for LEGO Modular Buildings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video, I share different techniques for building stairs for LEGO buildings and MOCs for a custom LEGO city.
I cover single stairs, double stairs, ladders and combinations. This is a useful tutorial if you are building a LEGO modular building MOCs.
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Hi JC. I'm a 59 year old beginner. The Harry Potter series and retirement sucked me back into my youth and I'm loving it. I have watched many builders showing off their moc's but you're the only one sharing techniques as well as ideas. My goal is to complete the sides of my Great Hall and other castle buildings and include hinges to access the interior. I also hope to add a couple more passenger cars the the Hogwarts Express. Now if I can only find an affordable way to get all the parts. Anyway, thanks for your how to's. I really enjoy them. Best, James
Hi James, thanks for your kind words and sharing. The Harry Potter builds are great builds to reMOC. Maybe, you saw my Cathedral MOC that I built with 3 HP sets. I'm glad you found value in my content. Thanks!
@@SmallBrickCity Yes I did. That's how I discovered your videos. That was really fun. Just curious. How long do you keep your moc's? Judging by your videos, you would have tons.
@@brickpopo4951 I keep about half of them. Some get broken down almost immediately after I build and film them. Others last anywhere from 3 to 6 months.
Building the understairs cupboard is a great solution, and saves a lot of space. Some neat tips here b👍
Thanks!
Yeah, I agree - that one was particularly smart!
Nice.
Great technique video. Nice tip with the 1x2 plate at the base of the stairs.
Hi J.C
Great srair ideas. Looking forward to your next video.
Thanks Ron!
Great advice! I don’t tend to build the stairs into the walls, but I’m probably gonna start! Thanks!
Thanks!
Nice video!
Thanks!
Cool video
Another great video jc! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Gregg!
Have you done spiral stairs? I’d be interested to see how you do them😊
Hi JC,
I think you did a great job in exploring this topic; it is difficult to explain in an interesting and informative video but I think you achieved it.
I like to have all the steps the same height, so I have a small problem with putting an extra plate under the stairs: it makes the first step 1 brick + 1 plate (4 plates) high, whereas the other steps are 1 brick (3 plates) high.
This might be a small step for some but it is a giant step for a minifig. :-)
The brick-built staircase that you showed (with the plates for treads) has the same problem, as the first step is one brick + 1 plate high. It would work ok if the steps were 4x2 bricks, then you don't need the plate on top and each step would each be one brick high.
If you tile the floor but not the steps then this isn't an issue, because the floor is also raised by 1 plate/tile and the first step is then again 1 brick.
But if you don't tile either, or you tile both, then you do have the issue.
You could fix this by making the first step from two plates for the riser then one plate for the tread, then the first step would be one brick high as would the other steps. That's Just like the pre-built stairs piece.
To achieve steps all the same you also have to consider the last step up the upper floor. The normal way of building an (upper) storey is to start with some supporting /edging plates then the floor plate itself.
That's two plates. So to keep your final step up to the next floor as one brick high, you need to add one plate to the ground floor (lowest storey). That plate is usually the tile layer that allows the floors to be separated.
Using that logic, you have the following number of stairs, where is the integer number of bricks in the storey:
for the storey + for the base of the next storey
which is + 3 plates => n+1 stairs.
Each stair is one brick high.
As you explain, a door is usually 6 bricks high, so the minimum for is usually 6.
The height of the ground floor is then 6 bricks + the tile layer.
You can see an example of that here www.pinterest.com/pin/754845587523374872/
If you want to strengthen the build or adjust any of the heights, you can add another layer of bricks or three more layers of plates, making the storey 7 bricks + 1 tile.
You can see an example of that here www.pinterest.com/pin/754845587523375705/
Using your technique of a layer of plates under the walls, as you show, then you would have two layers of plates above the door and windows, before the tile layer, to make it up to an integral number of bricks plus the tile layer. This maintains the evenness of the stairs.
You can see an example of that here www.pinterest.com/pin/754845587523375946/
All of the above is not affected by 'tiling' the floors and the stairs; the tiles just sit on top of the appropriate floor and the steps are still always 1 brick high.
The top step is then at the same height as the tiled layer separating the storeys. Then the next step is made up of three plate layers: the supporting /edging plates + the floor plate itself + the floor tiling. That makes the top step three plates or one brick high, the same as all the others.
See examples of that for a 6-brick storey here www.pinterest.com/pin/754845587523374958/ and a 7-brick storey here www.pinterest.com/pin/754845587523376069/
Keep up the good work !!
Thanks for showing us
I put tiles in a Lego building and it looks a lot nicer thanks for the tips
Ah - like the reverse brick idea! Love the explanation of the 90 degree turn....
Thanks!
Some great tips! Very useful..
And also, hi Jc! Can you check out my latest video? Just asking :-)
Thanks!
Once again i learn alot thank very much . Keep up the great work Thank you again
Boy, JC, I love the help u gave me, I only knew 2 of those techniques before 😉
"minifigs will be knocking their heads". I can relate, poor dudes.
Awesome
JC, thanks for another great tutorial, and tips! I like the idea of using the space under the stairs for something useful! great thought! I find that sometimes my stair solutions look awkward, so this was helpful! also the white simple stairs are a useful solution LegoLoved it! Vickie
Thanks Vickie!
cool
What is the brick ID for the Lego stair mold?
good video i will build a orange house
Hey J C! Thanks for putting out such quality content on a regular basis. I'm a fairly new subscriber, but always look forward to your videos coming out. I'm getting the pieces together to build my first MOC using the sanctum sanctorum showdown as a base. Thanks for inspiring me to create my own things, and not just follow the instructions the whole time!
Thanks so much for your kind words and welcome to Small Brick City!
Hey can u make more videos daily
Thank you - that was so helpful!
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Cool
Very nice ideas and techniques JC I didn't know about the plate under the stairs neat tips and the 90dec turn that was cool also, great uses of the stairs cupboard space I'll like to do that for my house somewhere for the Hoover to go..lol can you do something about building a roof too the tradition style pitch roof like the classic house I like to know how you strengthen the roof.
Thanks! Coincidentally, I will be doing a 2-part series on building a MOC from start to finish with my mini house and that has a classic roof. So maybe that might help.
I don't really have trouble with the stairs I have trouble finding the stairs LoL
You can get them directly from lego's own online store through pick'a'brick. Search for Element-ID: 4277751. that's the brown one, for some reason that's the only colour stair pick'a'brick seems to have available.For completeness, the Element-ID of the black one is 4279270.
Umm 😐 where do you get that black stairs what's the set or number pls answer me
Hi, www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=30134
Thanks JC I'm a new subscriber here I'm really waiting for your next release of a video thanks
I always felt those were too steep for a minifigure to reasonably climb
love the last stairs with the draw looking build underneath.
Thanks!
JC This stairs is so cool you will see how you work it hard good job and could u comment on my last video
Is it possible to build anything on 4 x 8 base plate for a lego city
This - th-cam.com/video/J3Z67x2kEfA/w-d-xo.html
Or most of my Small Builds th-cam.com/video/J3Z67x2kEfA/w-d-xo.html
The problem I have with standard Lego stairs is that steps look too high to me regarding the Minifigures scale. For me a step should be two plates high... For instance a 1x4 tile over two 2x4 plates.
I understand what you are saying. Well the modular buildings themselves are not really minifig scale too so this would be consistent with that inconsistency 😀
16:52 that must be one fragile minifig :)
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Thanks!
I'm back!
Too lengthy for something simple