I don’t cut stair stringers every day ... whether that be a ruler or a straight piece of wood, and clamp it to the square using small C clamps, or you can use an old fashioned set of brass ...

To understand stairs, let’s talk about floors. Like many Americans, you might live in a home with a wood-floor system. The ...

then you may want to apply two coats of paint to the notched cuts of your stair stringers. This paint will plug up the tiny tubes and prevent much of the water from entering the wood. Three coats ...

You probably give little thought to the stairs you go up or down to reach different levels of your home, deck or patio. I’ll wager that if I handed you a measuring tape, a framing square, a ...

Pics later.<BR><BR>This past weekend the better half and I decided to replace the decking material on our front porch and stairs with Timbertek. Friday was spent ripping up the deck portion of the ...

The main features of any stair are the treads (what you step on), the risers (the vertical wood between the treads), and the stringers (foundational support pieces). When you mark off the ...

You probably give little thought to the stairs you go up or down to reach different levels of your home, deck or patio. I’ll wager that if I handed you a measuring tape, a framing square, a ...

I never cut notches in my wood stair stringers. I created 1/2-inch-deep mortises in my 2x12s to preserve the strength of the stringers. These mortises take much more time to create, which is why ...