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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

called stringers, and the treads of the staircase rest on these beams or are connected to them. The stair treads are no different from the wood that covers a flat floor. When the carpenter set ...

The staircase seen immediately upon entering is new, with steel stringers and wood treads. It replaces a closed staircase with an entrance to the basement underneath. “We relocated access to the ...

I then notch the wood stair stringers so they lock into this flat horizontal piece of lumber. When the steps are complete, you can’t see this flat piece of lumber as it sits under the first ...

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 ...

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 ...