This stringer tutorial is based on the simplest form of stairs, those with a saw tooth tread-riser design (so to speak) and that are fastened directly onto house or deck framing. Also this stair ...

Inside the house, you might guess it was the walls below the stairs, but actually stairs are self-supporting structures that are held up by their stringers, the long pieces to which each tread is ...

Squeaky stairs are annoying and make a house feel old and dated. The good news is that most stair squeaks can be traced and fixed. Find out what's making your stairs squeak, and learn how to fix ...

S queaky stairs are easy to fix from underneathprovided theyre exposed. ... so let everyone in the house know about the repair. ... Screw the outside stringers to each stud with 4-1/2-in. screws.

I always built my own stairs, when I could control the distance between floor levels, with a 7 1/2-inch riser and a 10-inch tread. The model A stringers come with a 7 7/16-inch riser and a 10 1/4 ...

The prefabricated stringers I worked with recently at my son’s house are made from steel. They are not notched. The manufacturer, Fast-Stairs, welds steel angle irons onto the stringers that ...

"You can absolutely cut a stair stringer if only you only knew the way the math works," my dad once said to me. So, long before I ever had a geometry class, I knew the math behind determining a slope.

Building a set of stairs is a tricky endeavor. Using a pair of brass stair gauges and a builder’s square to mark the stringer (the zigzag boards the steps and risers attach to) can make the job ...