If the total height of your stairs exceeds the building code limitation, a landing may be required. This can be done to provide a resting place on tall stairs or to turn a stairway. The challenge with building staircases is always accomadating the finishes so that the finished staircases match the finished ones.
Adding a landing to existing stairs is a great way to provide a resting place on tall stairs and to turn a stairway. Before starting work on adding a landing to your home, it is essential to understand the process. Using a landing to break up a long stair run makes the stairs easier and safer to traverse. You can also build a landing to change the direction of the stair run.
Using the U-shaped stair calculator with a landing is a great solution to minimize costs in its construction. This calculator is suitable not only for wooden staircases but also for other types of stairs.
A staircase with a landing isn’t as challenging to build as you might think. It requires the same basic processes and calculations as a regular set of stairs. Steps include finishing decking, making lower-stair stringers, installing center stringers, and attaching stringers to pads. When building stairs with a mid-level landing, set the Landing Height half of the Total Height, which is 60 inches.
The stairway landing is supported by load-bearing walls on two sides and by a hockey stick type stringer at the bottom. The base of the stairs rests on a pad.
📹 Stairbuilding: The Landing
How to build stairs: The Landing. Full course https://lowesvideo.com/course/60.
📹 How to Build Bomber Stairs part 2
Now for stair building part 2. The stairs will be carpeted, a standard in our area. I use a combination of Advantech Subfloor …
Great article Tim! I’ve got a question about the nails from that Paslode nailer. My understanding is that it shoots clipped head nails. Back when i was in trade school in Seattle in 2019 I remember hearing that clipped head nails don’t meet code in our area. I trust you know the code but I’m curious about the discrepancy. Perhaps this is the code for King county but not Kitsap? I work on Bainbridge Island and would love to use that nailer but I don’t want to be in violation of code. Thanks for all the free education you provide!
We don’t build framed stairs here. At this point in construction we would build a temporary staircase out of framing lumber and it’s not attached to the walls. The drywall or plaster runs through and when we’re ready for trim, the stairs are either built in a shop off site or come as a kit with routered stringers and wood shims.
I cant get Advantech where I live. I’d have to drive 2 hours away to get it and its way to expensive to ship, even to store. I can get LP Premium but in my area I dont have confidence in subflooring material like that. I’m not a contractor anymore. I am just working on my own home and I’ve started to use plywood more and more now because of my limited options.
Great staircase. Love that you use 4 stringers, even on short half runs. And yes, we always add a note to the plans to keep the contractors and subcontractors honest: “BUILDER MUST CHECK AND VERIFY ALL DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS AND REPORT ANY DISCREPANCIES TO THE DESIGNER PRIOR TO ANY ON SITE CONSTRUCTION” – I literally cut and pasted that out of one of my drawing sets. I always add: USE DIMENSIONS ONLY – DO NOT SCALE PLAN to my plans, cuz, if you know, you know.