Whats up everyone! I came in for a couple hours this morning to build this small set of stairs and a landing! this video documents the process and explains it for beginners or DIYers!
They look nice but you can't use plywood or osb to hang the stairs off the landing. You need to either use hangers or post them up from the concrete floor. Also, you need some hangers for your landing floor joists and you cant just nail the joist to the studs at the exterior wall. You could post under each joist at that wall but you make drywalling it a nightmare as you will need to cover any and all wall penetrations for fire. You will also need to add a vaper barrier under any untreated wood to concrete. You almost got it though. Keep up the hard work.
The joists are posted, Hangered, and the house is well past inspection and getting flooring done by now. Had zero issues with any of this section! Never added posts under the stairs. The plywood was sufficient
Cool video. This guy is right, Simpson stringer straps are code. Plywood isn’t appropriate to hold stairs securely for years. The other comments on securing stairs to where they land is also best practice. Stairs ain’t nothing to mess with. In the trades we always wanna keep improving. Forever. Thanks.
Professional carpenter here (30yrs), good to see young guys doing excellent work and admitting still learning. Building and remodeling is always the same yet different and we should never stop learning and improving our skills.
I agree with you it's good seeing young people in the carpentry business I've been doing it for 32 years and I absolutely love it I wouldn't have it any other way
I agree with you it's good seeing young people in the carpentry business I've been doing it for 32 years and I absolutely love it I wouldn't have it any other way
Keep it up man. It’s hard to find younger people joining the trade nowadays. Nobody wants to get their hands dirty. It’s good to see a younger crew out there.
Hallo, ich hätte im Deck Blocks hinter den Treppenwangen eingebaut und die wand darunter, hinter der Treppe geschlossen. So könnte die Treppe auch besser aufliegen und würde nicht nur am OSB hängen.
Your calculator should have the code rise & run stored & head height (if necessary) too. So all you have to do is type in your rise which would be 29-1/4 then hit your rise button followed by your conversion button & finally your stair button & your calculator with give you your tread, riser & your stringer length & you can do this on any stairs you build… you can also go one step further & calculate your riser 7-5/16 & your tread let’s say 10” (you would input 7-5/16 rise 10” run & hit the diagonal button 12-3/8) now you have 3 points to scribe your risers & treads you’ll never grow even a 1/16 using this method.
We do our stairs exactly the same in MN except we glue between the top riser and joist, and the one on the floor. Keeps it from squeaking later on, etc... Sometimes builder's want us to notch out the bottom and run treated lumber on the slab, too. Nice job! 🇺🇸👍😊 It's nice seeing the younger generation stepping up. 🇺🇸
Hey brother well done. Good job putting it together prior it makes installing much easier. Not sure what the requirement are where you’re at but is there no connection to the bottom of the stringers required on your stairs there? We always add a piece of 2x pt on the concrete here and attach it to the bottom of the stringers
That was my question. Where I am in Maine, we have to have a PT 2x notched into the outside edge on the bottom of the stringers, we need to isolate the PT from the concrete with sill sealer or flashing tape and that PT 2x has to be attached to the concrete. The other thing we have to do is have the intersection at the landing to the wall supported either with a ledger on the wall with joist hangers, the ledger under the joists and/or posts under the ledger to the floor again, isolating the bottom of the posts or the bottom PT plate for the wall from the concrete.
@@Coffmanconstruction maybe they're replacing them later. If they're not carpet stairs you shouldn't bother putting risers on. Let the trim guy put the risers and permanent treads on with glue. Like your videos, keep up the good work. I use a multitool to cut out the little leftovers on the triangles. I find it makes a nice flat cut and flips back and forth pretty well.
That’s sick man you’re very good. The way I learned was using treated 2x4 and fastening to the concrete and notching the risers to sit on it. Very cool to see a different and experienced way of doing this
this is a stupid question, but at 2:03 when you start building the landing for the stairs... the joists are just held up in the air by the nails in them at each end (nothing supporting them from below), but the floor adjacent to the landing has all this structural support built up underneath... how do you know, as a framer looking at the blueprints, when you can build a floor like the landing vs the floor next to the landing? sorry for the wording, having a difficult time explaining what I'm thinking
In my case most of the homes we build have engineering even down to the stair landings! So this landing ends up getting structural screws into the wall and floor next to it, then it all gets connected with Simpson connectors too to make it structural. But there are times that the plans aren’t engineered, and we just have to operate based off of prior examples!
@@Coffmanconstruction thank you for the response... makes more sense to me now. Did it take some time to learn how to read plans effectively? There's so much detail crammed into such a small space! I like how you shared that screen capture of the blueprints on your phone. Nothing I saw jumped out at me (like a detail symbol or a call out) saying "hey framer, these get structural screws and/or connectors." Maybe that could be an idea for a future video... Transitioning from paper space to real world, what things are shown explicitly on the plans vs what you have to know based on code or previous experience... Anyway, thank you again for taking the time to reply
How long you been doing this type of work?? I’m 21 Just started with a framing company couple months ago with no experience at all except for building crates. I’m starting to get the hang of it more and more each day how long did it take till you were official comfortable doing the job as you are now ?? Love your vids man
Yo dude! Thanks for watching! I’ve been working for the company for 6 years now, but about 2-1/2 years ago was when I really started to pick it up, probably that one year i grew like 80% in my knowledge and confidence! My biggest advice is just talking to other people! Over Instagram, podcasts, RU-vid videos, forums, any information you can find will put you ahead! Thanks again nick!
Always important to crown your 2x before laying out stringers. Also good to add a 2x4/6 kicker to the bottom of the stringer so you can attach the stairs to the floor they’re sitting on. Just notch it into the bottom of each stringer & cut it to the length you need. From the front of the rise back(it’ll be flush to the front of the stringers when done correctly)…you do good work young buck, keep it up.
I use the same framing square and buttons exactly haha. I also like to build my stairs as a unit and set it instead of each stringer individually if i can. All stairs come down to is math, layout, and cutting with a saw! Each veteran carpenter I worked with and was taught by all build stairs differently. Nice video man.
Mark the inside of the square and move the square and line up the outside side. It will be 1”1/2 or 2” different depends on which way your moving the square. Like if the run is 10 on the inside of your square it will be 11”1/2 on the outside that way you can keep accuracy by always positioning your measurement on the line
