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2900 lb free standing stairs

comments (2) March 27th, 2009 in Reader's Gallery

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this is more a peice of furniture then it is stairs,it took 3 months to build out of paralam beams, the stringers are6"x16"x16 feet /there are13 treads at4"x14"x52"long. the constrution is mortise and tennon reinforced with 16"hardened steel lags. the entire unit is hanging on a large french cleat which is also tennoned into the stringers.  I had to build 4 temp walls to install. all was grain filled 6 times sanded up to 220 and had 8 brush coats of deftphane semi gloss floor finish before assemblly, followed by 8 hand rubbed coats once it was up . last there is a single peice of glass at top and down stairs(no pic) .oh those are lad lights I inset between each step.


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woodguydan woodguydan writes: GEide Thank you so much for your compliment ,yes I do have other pics of this and other house projects maybe I will do just that .the funny thing about this project is that I don't like substates at all ,so this one was a challenge for me. but the carpenters who called me in for this job where going to just bolt steel plates under the treads.so I gave the client this option and he loved it ,but I could not talk him into using the 100year old reclaimed timbers I have.all the same I'm happy with it to .Thanks again
Posted: 9:17 pm on March 28th

GEide GEide writes: Woah! nice stairs. I get a bit of vertigo looking at that last picture.

If you have other house projects, you should post them on our sister site, FineHomebuilding.com:
http://finehomebuilding.taunton.com/gallery

They also have a before-and-after home remodel challenge going on:
http://finehomebuilding.taunton.com/contest/before-and-after-home-remodels

The winner gets a DeWalt drill kit.
-Gina
Posted: 4:17 pm on March 27th

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