Top 5 Building Codes For Stairs With Landings - Design And Construction

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Published 2022-06-16
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All Comments (7)
  • @Clark-Mills
    Thanks for your videos over the years. I only just spotted the "Donate" option on your site. Many thanks... Clark & Megan (NZ).
  • @high_impact1299
    Regarding the stairways w/ landing as set up in this video- does the 3/8" variance rule for risers apply for every single rise on both the stairways, or can each stairway be treated individually? Example: stairway from basement up to landing has 7 1/2" risers (not varying more than 3/8"); stairway from landing up to first floor have 6 3/4" risers (not varying more than 3/8") Thanks for this great resource!
  • @mr.schmoe5867
    Do stairs require that bracket underneath the top at the meeting point of the diagonal angles if that makes sense
  • @MBTUE
    I there a min measurement for the landing at the top of the stairs ? For example if you have a front door with the stairs directly in front of the door . thanks .
  • @Drunken_Hamster
    Reducing from 8" rise to 7.75" rise is the dumbest thing It's no longer round in either standard or metric, and therefore you can no longer quickly estimate the height and run of a staircase. On top of that, you'll also almost always end up with some odd number of steps, or an uneven height when going between floors. Like... it's 12 steps on an 8" rise to go up 8 feet. But no combination of 7.75" steps can get up to 8 feet, and most flooring systems are also deeper than 7.75 but not 15.5" or larger... It's just a dumb pain in the ass. It also throws out the beautiful synchronicity with 16" OC studs. 16" studs, joists, rafters, stringers, and 8" tall stairs. It just makes sense. I also don't care much for the new landing rule. Now, obviously you can't have a landing smaller than your stairs (at least it physically makes sens that you wouldn't) but to absolutely require that your landing be the same depth as the width of your stairs? The whole point of the landing is so the stairs take up less space. But I also want the stairs wide enough to be comfortable and carry things up and down. If I have a 5ft wide stairway that goes up to a landing, turns 180 degrees, and then continues up at a 5ft width, that landing shouldn't need to be 5ft, especially if I only need 4 or 3 to get the turning radius of furniture handled. No longer can I save the 2 feet of run on either staircase that I would have, and as far as I've been told in this video, there isn't even a reason given for this stupid code update.