Exterior stairs. The most popular designs.

Internal stairs in demand in buildings with the second floor, attic, or a full, outside the same are found in every private house. Stairs then "melts" in the sun, it gets wet in the rain, it is covered with snow and ice, but regardless of this, it has to be reliable, convenient and secure. Increased attention to the decoration, to the ladder organically fit into the overall style of the facade and the area. If incorrectly picked up an inside staircase worsen the appearance of one room, which is sad, but tolerable, the unsuccessful outdoor spoil the overall impression of the building. Participants Forumhouse, creating exterior stairs with his hands, take into account all the nuances.

Categories outdoor stairs

Street stairs are divided into two main categories:

• Input - to the front door or black;
• High-rise - the second floor to the attic, to the terrace, in the attic.

inputs

For the main entrance is characterized by the production of entrance, when the ladder is united with a porch or terrace, at least - just steps leading directly into the corridor. Usually the front staircase consists of one flight, but due to terrain features may consist of several - in the hilly areas, where the house is located on a hill. In forumchanin

Vane70 just such a situation.

Vane70 (Member FORUMHOUSE):

After visiting the "master" for a large sum built me ​​a "miracle Judaic", I decided to make a ladder myself, this is my first experience. Steps and risers - larch, stairs covered with oil 3V3, railing and kosour - pine. Step convenient, lower - 40 x 16 cm, upper - of 30 x 15 cm, string - 20 x 60 x 200 cm, glued pine. Workpiece to cut yourself.

High-rise

High-rise ladders often duplicate the internal design, allowing the hosts to get to the second floor directly - without going into the house. Less commonly, they are used as the only way to access when the building is divided into two hosts or room upstairs not visited so often that it became necessary to the regeneration of internal stairs. Regardless of the structural elements and attendance, altitude ladder should have an output area. This necessity is no longer only for the buildings on the upper terrace, which comes and the last flight.

structure type depends on the working height - the higher it is, the greater the angle the more dangerous and becomes ladder. Therefore, for high buildings make several flights, the turntable allows to maintain an optimum angle of inclination to 45⁰.

Inclined same odnomarshevye models are suitable for attics. Regardless of the number of flights and the inclination angle, tall ladders necessarily equipped with handrails and fences. Odnomarshevuyu staircase on the string with a metal frame and wooden steps made himself Samara Kostya.

Samara Kostya (Member FORUMHOUSE):

It was a powerful old staircase, but steep and uncomfortable, long sought a suitable option, found, made of a metal bracket and board. For the planks used for furniture nuts and bolts. It remains to make a handle - is attached to the wall of profile pipes on the brackets.

Less common are spiral staircases street, but our forumchanin igorkzn I chose a such variant.

igorkzn (Member FORUMHOUSE):

In the future we plan to put forged or cast-iron spiral staircase, I like it more and more until there is no way to stop the screw profile.

materials

Production street stairs is carried out using substantially the same materials as the internal, but with the specific application.

• Tree - hard, abrasion resistant varieties, to avoid warpage and deformation to the bearing members of an array are selected and glued timber (timber and shields);
• Metal - thick-walled, high strength;
• Brick - ceramic or clinker, solid;
• Concrete - reinforced, high-grade cement.

Also important type of structure - a wooden house is unlikely to decorate the brick or concrete steps, as well as a wooden porch - not the best option for a brick cottage.

Tall street ladders often made of metal - this may be fully metallic or composite structure. Metal easier to handle on its own, it is acceptable costs, last longer and wood blends with any material, whether it be brick, wood or plastic cladding.

If steps are planned for the metal structure, smooth surface not allowed. Used corrugated and perforated material, mesh or something similar.

This is done for security reasons - at any stage of the season should provide reliable support, and not serve as a pass to the emergency room.

Base

All exterior stairs are in need of a solid foundation, designed for the expected load. If altitude solidly weighs in force size, then the input to lift heavy furniture or plumbing, and it needs to survive. foundation type depends on the material and structural elements of the stairs. For the manufacture of brick require pouring the concrete slab under a wooden frame digged foundation blocks or poured poles (asbestos, concrete) by using the iron structure and plates, and the pillars, and blocks. As an option - concreted into the ground of the load-bearing elements - stringers, bowstring, supporting metal poles or mortgages, which then welded construction. Ideally, the foundation under the outside staircase is filled simultaneously with the general building, to a monolithic connection. In practice, as reported rarely, usually a matter of the base under the stairs or marches puzzled after the erection of walls.

Concrete blocks, both affordable and easy to work materials, used when creating your porch ovbelyaev.

ovbelyaev (Member FORUMHOUSE):

Do yourself a used concrete blocks 20 x 25 x 50 cm. What is the charm - do not have to bother with the formwork and reinforcement (reinforced with blocks already), it is not necessary to knead concrete (need sand, cement and gravel) and wait for him to "get up." Price question - 4 x 200 = 800 rubles plus sand on dumping.

Under the high-rise metal ladder our other forumchanin poured slab.

Qzmich-NN (Member FORUMHOUSE):

Foundation - the easiest, is located under the turntable on a photo of his dog house closes. It is made as follows: close to the main foundation - pit 1.5 x 1 m depth is about 40 cm, filling - 30 cm of sand on top of the concrete (without binder with the main foundation), in concrete - mortgages. And then welding and welding again.

His street ladder from metal hart77 He puts on his tracks and concreted pole and the first march is based on a concrete slab, which is flooded with private territory. For framework used Area sorokovke, 4 mm thick, grooved stage.

mount

As in the case of an extension, the extension should not be linked with the basic foundation, the load can not be compared, and "walk" the design are different.

Depending on the species of the stairs, it is connected to the home in different ways.

Tall metal ladder fixed to the output area, and she, in turn, is fixed to the plates overlap, for added reliability of the supporting pillars. If the ground at the site strongly distending instead of welding and hard compounds freely used - leashes, and the like fasteners, allowing seasonal variations.

For log cabins, our craftsmen have come up with original stairs to the terrace and the best way of fixing, designed for wood shrinkage without negative consequences for the connection. They use a special shrink anchor - lift adjustment.

Lady_M (Member FORUMHOUSE):

The problem of the foundation, and we decided to shrink by pouring columns under the porch and terrace. Beam 150 x 150 mm was chassis base, the vertical supports placed on the shrinkage anchors. Thus, the house, sitting down on their own, not pulled to a porch. Yes, the darkness all the time to tighten the anchor for uniform shrinkage, but the result is obvious: everything is in order.

Vladimar (Member FORUMHOUSE):

I'm a porch made as follows:
1. Concreted metal tubes (slightly less than the width of guide stairs).
2. The lower part of the guides put the pipes on the bolts (one bolt to allow the guide if necessary to sink or rise, depending on the celebrations of the soil, as well as shrinkage).
3. The upper part of the guide simply put on strip foundations.

decoration

Wooden stairs street rarely need additional decoration because of the natural beauty of real wood. They are impregnated with protective compounds, oils, waxes, and after the paint or varnish in a scheme or selecting contrasting tone of some of the elements.

Concrete and brick veneer species usually tiles, mosaics, stone wild, sometimes make the skeleton of cheap brick, and decorative veneer after. Facing selected, based on the total clearance of the building - steps are a continuation of the cap or on suitable style. Even the most expensive and ambitious material ruin the view, if it does not match the existing finish.

Metal stairs most "afraid" of corrosion, so they finish be sure to include the cleaning, sanding, priming and painting weatherproof structures. High-quality paint will transform not only the visual design, but also protects against rust. If the production of wrought-iron staircase is able not everyone knows how to work with metal, then decorate ready-welded frame vignettes, of which the sale of a large selection, the power of any.

External stairs - it is not only necessary, functional design, they are also home decoration, able to model the structure turned into unique and unrepeatable. And thanks to the huge selection of materials and a variety of models everyone can pick out of the pocket and the like.

Subject ladders in all the diversity represented in the forum "Stair Constructions"Entrance groups are discussed in the topic "Pergolas, awnings, veranda, porch». Nuances of creating their own hands the internal structures of metal, in many ways duplicate the exterior, in the article of metal stairs. How to communicate the foundations of freestanding buildings, which often include stairs, see the article of annexes. For those who are planning a spiral staircase will be interesting video clip the creation of winders.

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