Drawing stairs with running steps

Owners of private houses as the easiest way to connect adjacent floors to each other more often choose stairs with climbing steps. The fact is that such designs are quite simple, take up little space, and besides, they look quite beautiful in appearance. Such a wonderful staircase will be a real highlight of any interior. Moreover, buying it at a hardware store is not necessary at all, you just need to find a drawing of a staircase with running steps, stock up with the necessary materials, learn how to work with a lathe and allocate a bit of your time.

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What you need to know to build a staircase?

First you need to clearly determine what materials and tools you may need to make this type of staircase. It is recommended to buy about two cubic meters of high-quality first-class wood.

Important! Dark oak is ideal for this, but it must be noted that it is quite expensive. Maple is a bit cheaper.

Given revolutions, cutters, entry steps, you will need one cubic meter of wood to a height of 1 meter.

The following tools need to be prepared:

• Electric jigsaw.
• Drill.
• Self-tapping screws.
• Screwdriver.
• Hammer.
• Roulette.
• Six pieces of quality beams.
• Railings - it is better if they are metal, with wooden upholstery.

Also, for work, you will come in handy the installation scheme of the interfloor staircase with the rung steps, which must be carefully studied.

Important! There are several additional recommendations:

• The entrance step should be 15 cm in height, and the rest should be 12 cm each.
• The first step should not be rectangular, otherwise the staircase will turn ugly. The figured details give the designs sophistication, style, and originality.
• The height of the beams is calculated according to all the known law of Pythagoras.
• It will be necessary to add another 30 cm to the resulting figure. During the assembly process, all excess parts can be cut off.
• You will have to mount the race itself. As a rule, 2-3 steps go to it. But if you mount straight beams with a right angle without curly twists, the process will be greatly facilitated.

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Features of manufacturing a standard running ladder

A wooden staircase with diverting steps with your own hands can contain a large number of steps, which are fastened together by self-tapping screws, mounting glue or self-tapping screws. First, a suitable design option is selected, but one should not forget that the wood itself must be processed before use.

Important! The staircase itself is conditionally divided into three parts: before the race, the race itself, the structure after it.

The features of their construction include the following:

1. The race itself should be fastened exactly in the middle, otherwise the staircase will wear out much faster.
2. Before installation, the stairs are calculated, suitable sizes are determined.
3. If its height is about 2-3 meters, then steps will need 15-20. In this case, the transition of the race will be 8-10 steps. That is, the first straight part is formed from the first 8 steps.
4. Then a race is made. The emphasis here is on a straight beam, which then hides under the stairs.It is important that it can withstand the maximum load, so care must be taken that it is durable.
5. Entrance steps for wooden structures are cut in double sizes of ordinary rectangular steps. Then, one side is cut out according to the shape of the trapezoid, the second remains the original width. Then they can be trimmed and trimmed already during installation. A narrow edge can be rounded with a jigsaw.
6. The design with running steps provides for the installation of handrails. Therefore, it is better to choose metal options, which can then be sheathed with wood.

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Swivel ladders

The simplest type of running structure is a swinging ladder with climbing steps. It’s even easier to make it yourself, because in this case you do not need to do many calculations:

• Only two parts of the most ordinary staircase will be needed.
• Depending on which specific part it will be attached to the wall, the left or right beam will be elongated at the top.
• When calculating a product of this type, two more additional steps for the transition should be taken into account. They are cut in the same way, as a result of which one side is wider, the other narrower.
• At the final stage of the installation of the step, it is necessary to make an oblique cut to fasten the two risers together at right angles.

A more complex process is the installation of the product with 180 degrees running steps. Here you can use bent plywood or connect all parts with three separate pieces of a wooden beam. The plywood version looks better, but the second one is easier to mount.

Important! In both cases, all the flaws can be hidden with the help of a box made of drywall, which absorbs excess moisture. In this case, it is necessary to use not two, but three steps. Immediately prior to installation, determining the connection angles is difficult here, so it is better to postpone it for later.

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How is the do-it-yourself ladder going?

Since we have already learned how to make cross-stairs for a staircase made of wood, we can proceed with the installation of the structure itself. The installation diagram looks like this:

1. All work begins with the installation of the first part of the product.
2. Then the beams are mounted, holding the entire structure on weight. As a result, we get three beams on the transition of three meters between floors. You can hide them directly under it with the help of curly carvings or arrangement of the pantry.
3. Next, a support for the ceiling is mounted, because on its own it is not able to withstand heavy structures.
4. Then steps and railings are installed.
5. All parts are varnished, if this is not done, then you will have to change them in a few years.
6. Each staircase is designed individually for each house.

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What other stairs can you make yourself?

There are also two-march climbing stairs:

• It’s difficult to install them; proper support plays a special role here.
• Such structures, as a rule, consist of four parts: two parts of a straight staircase, two runs.
• They are interconnected by beams.
• They are installed with the letter T, that is, with the help of two supports.

Important! Metal stairs, suitable only in cases where the transition between floors does not exceed two meters. In addition, they are distinguished by great weight. If you take into account that you have to mount the race, the finished product will weigh a lot. An ordinary concrete slab can not withstand a huge load, that is, it will have to be mounted either on a large structure or use beams to hold every 50 cm. In the first case, a huge amount of free space is lost. But after all, climbing ladders are used precisely to save space, so it is better to abandon metal products.

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So we got acquainted with the features of the design, construction, installation of running ladders.As it turned out, they really deserved their popularity, due to their multifunctionality, external originality and ease of installation. If you clearly know how to make a staircase with running stairs with your own hands, you can complement the house not only with a beautiful element of decor, but also with a rather useful and really necessary detail.