Wooden stairs on metal

Reliability, safety and beauty - these words best describe a convenient staircase. Modern construction market offers a variety of options such designs - from simple, made of wood, up to the unusual.

Despite the wide range of finished products, FORUMHOUSE users prefer to roll up their sleeves and take up the production of the necessary things in a life on their own.

We have already told our readers, how to make their own cargo trailer for the car and concrete mixer.

The next step - metallokarkasnye stairs.

To the first staircase with metal frame immediately went well, its production should begin with careful planning. That commitment to the rule allowed forumchanin with the nickname OneFrombecome the owner of an excellent stairs on a metal frame.

Referring to his experience.

OneFrom (User FORUMHOUSE):

- I have in the house a perfect doorway:. Aperture length - 5 m, width - 1 m, height - 3 m At such sizes of itself begs the straight - so called stairway.

However, during construction, to save space, forumchanin decided to deploy the ladder 180 degrees and cancel the installation of straight construction. Aperture also had to redo it.

New sizes of the opening were:

• length - 3100 mm;
• width - 970 mm;
• height from the floor of the first floor to floor level of the second floor - 3000 mm.

After meticulous calculations choice fell on two possible types of structures:

1. Variant with intermediate platform at a height of 750 mm.

The rise of the second flight of stairs to 43.9 degrees, the tread - 212.5 mm in height and degree - 204.5 mm.

2. Option four zabezhnymi steps.

Lifting angle - 38.4 degrees, the tread - 236.5 mm and a height stage - 187.5 mm.

From a security perspective variant with an intermediate area - preferably one zabezhnymi steps, but its parameters are worse - because of the high angle of ascent.

OneFrom I stopped at the embodiment with zabezhnymi steps. And since Stairs on the metal was made forumchanin the first time in his life, he decided to break all the stages of manufacture of several consecutive steps.

making metal frame for stairs

Many novice master thought that working with wood is lighter and easier to use than metal. However, as the basis forumchanin welded frame selected from a metal ladder.

OneFrom:

- Experience working with wood I have little, so I chose a metal frame for the stairs. And spoil the iron preparation, in my opinion, harder than wood. Mess around with concrete I also did not want to because of the cumbersome nature of this design.

Parameters metal forumchanin calculated in a computer program, and before starting the welding work, has made its layout from the wooden bars.

Prototyping has allowed visualize how components will look and design details on the scale of 1x1.

On the metal frame ladder went channel 80h40 mm and 35 mm in area. Material steps - solid wood 40 mm thick.

The choice of material and fabrication steps

Wooden stairs on a metal frame often made of pine. This is the most affordable tree. However, such a timber has a significant drawback - inadequate strength and low abrasion resistance for long term use.

Forsteps you must use wood hardwood.

After analysis of the market and prices, members of the forum decided to order one of the following types of wood:

• larch;
• Birch tree;
• beech;
• oak;
• ash.

Rank the best wood for making strong and durable joinery rightly bears the oak. A significant drawback of the oak - the high price.When working with oak should use a respirator, because its fine dust has carcinogenic properties.

As a result, the choice fell on the beech, as, according to OneFrom, it is not enough in what concedes oak.

With all the advantages of beech has a significant drawback - vlagoboyazn. This can lead to twisting of the wood and the fact that it will exude the spot. But because Stairs from the metal frame is in the house, indoors, forumchanin decided not to pay attention to this problem.

prefabrication

Anyone who has ever carpenter, knows that the quality of the product depends largely on the availability of the necessary tools. When assembling the ladder use the following tools:

• electric drill;
• a circular saw;
• hand hacksaw;
• manual frezer;
• letochnaya grinder;
• jigsaws;
• Clamp.

Cheats do not get confused, before assembly is properly enumerate all the steps and podstuponki.

OneFrom:

- All Templates I advance marked a handle on the back side.

To compensate for possible shifts construction of the "near-wall sills" must be attached to the stairs, not the wall. Then installing poles and carried out the installation of handrails and balusters (they have forumchanin - forged).

According to OneFrom, such balusters stairs give "air" and fit perfectly into the interior design.

Lacquering and final assembly

After pre-assembling and checking the size of the wooden parts are removed and sanded and then painted. Validating first wanted to paint in the color stages "bleached ash", but after a series of experiments on the blanks he was of such a decision.

OneFrom:

- Get the color of the "bleached ash" with preservation of natural beech wood structure is very complicated, and depersonalize the tree structure I do not want to. This is the wrong approach.

As a result, after several experiments, forumchanin stopped at the natural color of the beech. And for the safety of the tree he decided to cover it with paint.

According to our user beech wood structure ash and oak inferior, and only a clear lacquer to fully open allowing the natural beauty of the wood.

After all the details are varnished, forumchanin proceeded to final assembly.

Installation steps on metal frame was conducted upwards.

For convenience, first establishes a temporary stage.

Then, during mounting, the blank stage gradually removed, and in their place put finishing.

As a result, the design turned out the following technical parameters:

• lifting angle - 38.4 degrees;
• tread - 236.5 mm;
• step height - 187.5 mm;
• Distance between stringers - 850 mm.

Excluding consumables wonderful staircase - metal frame and wooden steps - cost about 40 thousand rubles..

OneFrom:

- Previously, I did not make such designs. And if I could build it right the first time, then so can you!

On FORUMHOUSE members of portal share experiences the buildings right stairs. You can read a detailed story on "As I was doing the stairs " and watch a video about how to produce a monolithic structure.

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