How to Build Stairs - The complete Job from Start to Finish 

The fact he uses manners with an apprentice means everything

I am a builder and I must say that interactions like this with apprentices is extremely rare. Usually all I hear is the carpenters screaming at them all day! It’s a credit to you and the young fella that you can work quietly and composed together like this. Excellent work!

The apprentice is lucky to have a supervisor the cares enought to take the time to make it clear and easy to understand. Great work guys.

carpenter to carpenter I don't think your apprentice will relies how much your teaching him, until 5 years down the track. I thought he was your co-worker.

I'm about to start my carpentry course in vicco and this channel is getting me pumped. Thanks mate.

I would kill to work under a guy like this. 5 different companies and still have to teach myself everything... no wonder the trade is dying.

I like to pack my waling plate/stringer off the house when doing decks like this. Either window packers or ripped strips of treated setup vertically. Stops water sitting between your waling plate and the brickwork.

Great video man, keep up the good work!

extremely well built guys nice job

I feel like I’m the dad at home watching the tradies work, except this time they’re happy to have me watch

Great video, I'm not a chippy but love watching your videos, great detail and time put into em. Thanks🎉

At 11:00 why not just figure out the length on the edge of the beam, mark out 5 of that then mark the run and rise? It avoids the risk of small marking errors adding up over 10 marks and means you don't need to peer around the filled on the timber to mark

Credit to you Dan and how you treat your fellow worker. I would happily work along side you any day of the week! Great work on the stringers

Good watching you blokes work, you really should be wearing eye protection when you use that circ saw. It's not worth the risk.

So refreshing to see the metric system making the maths less crazy.. See the videos of yanks talking crazy fractions to do everything is hilarious.

Awesome job, I'd be happy with that, and new subscriber too :)

Who knew the the top of tape measure can be used as an eraser

Very nice tutorial, thanks heaps please keep the how to videos going , very useful!!!

Your works awesome. Shame the bricks aren’t level

Raiser facing as a load bearer, that's weird, the fasteners are taking shear to hold the lazy person rolling their steps off the front edge.

Awesome videos mate. I'm carpenter/joiner aswell. Great work. 🤙

we are required to have min 12mm gap between the stringer and the exterior wall to allow water passing through. It looks that you have the stringer hard against the wall?

Wasted 2 hours waiting for delivery, and still hadn't dug the holes

love your work mate. Just one thing, tell your apprentice to get that ciggy out of the shot. can't stand trades smoking on the bosses time. as always, beautiful work mate. looking forward to watching your other contents.

surprised you don't use any packers or spacers for the 5mm gap

stunning work as always Dave!

Mint work mate and love the content. Great work on being mindful of the PPE. And decent of the apprentice to speak up point out the error, you’re a great mentor to encourage the ability to speak up. Legend

Did you go to TAFE or just learnt on the job?

I usually find it stronger to put th risers in 1st, then the front edge of the step is better supported on top of the risers

No need to cut stringers anymore when you can buy pre made galvanized ones that last a lot longer and are much stronger or timber ones already pre cut, you shouldn't concrete posts in ground anymore either, you need to just dig the hole fill with proper concrete(not rapid set) then use a post stirrup to keep it off the ground, also use bugles for fixing to posts and galvanized angles in the corners for extra support, you've used way to many nails.

Good stairs. Not sure im ok with the posts set in concrete though. Personally id rather pour it let it set and drill and epoxy 6x6 or 4x4 saddles that way the posts dont come in contact with the concrete. I like the stringer ledger.

I've build hundreds of stairs and I've never seen the riser in front of the tread. Aussie downunda style!

Little soldiers would have looked abit better- in my opinion, instead of ripping stuff down for the risers and instead of using 67000 nails I’d be more inclined to use bugles for everything ay but other then that top Job roota

Ive only ever done stairs in concrete and ironbark stringers (housed) never liked the US style.

Great to watch as a carpenter here in the uk

Why set the posts in concrete?

Great Job men! I am a contractor in the States and it’s good to see you guys just use common sense along with you construction pro phone app !

Looks better with the tread nosing over the riser with a slight overhang, would also eliminate to need for that pissy little rip under the large riser board

It's a must nicer finish to run the tread board over the riser , water will pump in that groove and buckle those boards. Looks good tho

Hello there What carpentry text books would you recommend?

would you able to share the engineering detail for this stair build?

Nice work !! But maybe cut the ledger an 1 1/2 short on both sides so your joists cap it

Great video so easy to forget to allow for flooring board

It’s over 1m of fall. Need rails

Honestly, start your own company.

For the left riser dose it required two layers of protecting waterproofing.

Nice one mate, so good to see an aussie video! Whats this worth in labour alone?

Great video. Are you looking at taking on another apprentice?

Awesome content mate!

Nice work mate!! Chippies unite👊

10 metres 58 haha 19:50

are ur stringers even pt

awesome work guys

Great vid mate. Neat stairs

nice work👍🔥

great video cheers mate

Good stuff

Bruzzy not wearing no sunnies cutting them posts 😂😂

Legend bro

More of these please that was awesome

Bro great job. Glad to see someone take pride in their work! Looks amazing. And it’s cool to see you respond to some comments ( like the one about the riser placement )

This has been done wrong on every level, plz tell me your not qualified

Please, this is not how it's done! Set your string lines up and build your braces first! Brace all your posts in place and use that yellow thing behind you called a wheel barrow to mix the concrete evenly and to the correct consistency. Wrong bolts for brick mate, and wow, dyna drilling into brick, and banging them in... 👏 12mm off the building bud --those little clamps are called stair gauges 🙄The end result is shoddy craftsmanship man!