Finish work

[nightfighter]

New construction is nice....
I am drawing and figuring how to rework some basement stairs in an old Marblehead house. Avg 10" rise with 7-7.5" runs..... Approx 70x 70" totals, which includes the winder.... No way I have code headroom.... Sucks. I figure it is close to 56 degrees currently. Cutting back the top landing 7" (accounted for in the total run) should allow me to get close to 45 degrees, I hope.
7.78" rise 9x
8.75" run 8x
That look right to you RMarsh?

Still sucks. Not gonna be cheap, especially considering limitations on what they can get out of it. But ten inch rise will kill someone eventually. Butt ugly space too.....

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Originally Posted by nightfighter

Still sucks. Not gonna be cheap, especially considering limitations on what they can get out of it. But ten inch rise will kill someone eventually. Butt ugly space too.....

Our basement stairs used to be 9/7. It was like being on a ship. The drunks that did the addition before we owned the house clearly just left a hole in the floor, pulled up the ladder and did what they could. Deadly...

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by nightfighter

New construction is nice....
I am drawing and figuring how to rework some basement stairs in an old Marblehead house. Avg 10" rise with 7-7.5" runs..... Approx 70x 70" totals, which includes the winder.... No way I have code headroom.... Sucks. I figure it is close to 56 degrees currently. Cutting back the top landing 7" (accounted for in the total run) should allow me to get close to 45 degrees, I hope.
7.78" rise 9x
8.75" run 8x
That look right to you RMarsh?

Still sucks. Not gonna be cheap, especially considering limitations on what they can get out of it. But ten inch rise will kill someone eventually. Butt ugly space too.....

That will be a big improvement Ross. In most old houses basement stairs were considered service entrances or access and not built to same standards. Check out this link ....its a calculator app that I use for triangles (stairs). Using your rise and run would give you 42 degrees. Set to side angle side with angle set to 90

http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calcul...e-theorems.php

[Rmarsh]

Just started a stairway on another new home. This house will be for sale with a price upwards of $700,000. Crazy amount of money!!!
I built my own home back in 77' for a total cost of $25,000 on a 1 1/2 acre lot that I paid $6,700 for! I think I was making less than $5 an hour though.

When I started working as a carpenter my boss was selling 2 story colonials on 3/4 acre lots for $39,900! Seemed like a lot of money at the time!?

[Guppy]

Funny,,, my total was 30 and payed 7 for the lot.... Early 70's
Wow,,, 5 BUCKS,,, I'm thinking it was around 3.50.... LOL

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Guppy

Funny,,, my total was 30 and payed 7 for the lot.... Early 70's
Wow,,, 5 BUCKS,,, I'm thinking it was around 3.50.... LOL

My first job at 16 yrs. old was working at a sawmill... early 70's... my take home for 40 hrs was $44. Boss was a miserable pr*** too.
In 73' I was getting $2.50 framing condos on the cape.
By 77' got up to almost $5. A lot of hard work went into getting better at my job, a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

[Rmarsh]

Stairway progress and kitchen cabinets going in. The cabinets in the foreground, will form an angled peninsula. I'm going to build a 40" high wall on the backside of them to support a bar height granite top.

[Rmarsh]

Angled peninsula in progress....electrician will install 2 receptacles in the backsplash. The halfwall will support a granite top with a 12" overhang for bar stool seating.