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When it comes to stairs you really don't want to be creative with your designs. People have spent their whole lives training on stairs that fit very specific standards. If you throw something unusual at them you're just increasing the likelihood that they will trip, fall and sue.
I fucking hate the stairs at my new house's back porch. Instead of a normal ~45 degree "angle" (where each step is roughly as tall as they are long), mine are at a ~20-22.5 degree angle. It throws me off constantly and I have to climb them slowly. The front porch stairs are at a way more normal and convenient size per step.
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?
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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