Amateur carpenters who have laid out the cuts in a stair stringer (the zig-zag structural support for the steps) know the queasy feeling that bubbles up at the prospect of this job. There’s the simple ...

This is key for how to build stair railing. In this article we'll walk you through this and other best practices for how to ...

In this video, I will show you how to build exterior deck stairs from start to finish. First, I'll show you how to calculate your stair stringer cuts so that the treads, risers, and overall staircase ...

To lay out a set of stair stringers from scratch requires a little math, but not much. Equally important is some quiet time to run the numbers and at the same time to think about the construction ...

You probably give little thought to the stairs you go up or down to reach different levels of your home, deck or patio. I’ll wager that if I handed you a measuring tape, a framing square, a pencil and ...

You may be like most folks. I’m guessing you give very little thought to the stairs you go up and down on a regular basis. They might be constructed from wood, steel, or concrete. The vast majority of ...

The treads connect to side stringers and sometimes to one that is in the middle of the stairs. The stringers are no different from wood floor joists, steel I-beams or steel-reinforced concrete beams ...