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typical stair configuration is around 7-11...7" rise for 11" run...equal rise and run is seen at the inside radius of a spiral stair (not where a person is typically walking as there is a handrail and balustrade in the way) and of course that configuration changes to something flatter on the opposite side (rise stays the same, run gets bigger)...you just aren't going to in any normal way see a stairway at 45* as that's too fucking steep
I've been making steps at either six or five and a half inch rise. Last place I did was only five and a half because of grandparents and children. The run was about three feet but I still installed a handrail for the owner's mother. My theory is to design for the weakest person on the property. So, the owners brother came by to talk shit about the "unneeded" hand rail while he's leaning on it. Handrail was placed opposite the house to direct people away from stucco wall. I used one inch black pipe bolted to the out side of the seven foot wide steps and cantilevered back over the steps seven inches to keep peoples feet away from the edge and out of the plants. I welded all the joints before grinding, buffing smooth, applying cold galvanize paint and finishing with metallic bronze color. It went nicely with the paving stones I filled into the steps.
Did you ask him his architectural credentials before telling him to fuck right off?
I think of his sort as a frenemy. He's actually a machinist by trade, which makes him an expert in all things. He'd come by and offer advice like he's an expert on the topic and be so far off base and wrong it would be obvious he knew absolutely nothing about it and had never done it at all. Then I would have a blast roasting his ideas in detail until he'd get a shit eating grin as he slowly realized I had once more exposed his ignorance. It's not like I critique him on machinist details because I stay in my lane.
I designed a cantilevered overhead trellis for his sister and he stopped by to advise me that I shouldn't put in the end posts first but rather should be just starting at one end and install one by one in sequence. Who needs all them stupid string lines right? So I enjoyed ripping on his ignorance for the next half hour.
well, now I know more about stairs. my hatred for that back porch stairway is still existent.
No Shit. It's always either the bottom step or concrete/slab is to tall and you stumble since it's an inch higher or to short and your toe hits and you stop short.
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