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Stairs by floor height · 2.50 m · Straight

Straight stairs for a 2.50 m floor height

14 risers of 17.9 cm and 13 treads 27 cm deep, at 33°. 1.00 m wide, it takes 1.00 m × 3.51 m of floor. It is 3.51 m long and needs an opening of 3.33 m in the floor above for 2 m clear over every nosing.

Open this stair in uCADWhat it’s made of

14risers
17.9 cmeach riser
27 cmgoing (tread depth)
13treads (the last riser is up to the floor)
33°pitch
1.00 m × 3.51 mfootprint, over the treads
12345678910111213up1.00 m3.51 m
The plan: steps numbered from the bottom, the walking line in blue.

More or fewer steps

2.50 m (250 cm) can be climbed in fewer, higher steps or more, lower ones. Each opens in uCAD as this stair with that many risers.

RisersEach riserGoingPitchRun of a straight flightHow it walksIn uCAD
1220.8 cm25 cm40°2.75 msteep: over 20 cm, more than many codes allowopen
1319.2 cm25 cm38°3.00 msteeper, fewer stepsopen
1417.9 cm27 cm33°3.51 mcomfortable (drawn here)open
1516.7 cm30 cm29°4.20 mcomfortableopen

Limits differ by country: England’s Approved Document K allows a rise up to 220 mm and a pitch up to 42° in a home, Germany’s DIN 18065 up to 200 mm, and both ask for 2.0 m of headroom. Check the code that applies to yours.

What it’s made of

Drawn as it’s built, in timber with open treads: treads housed in the stringers, posts under the turns, a railing on its newels. 256 parts in all, every bolt and weld among them. Sizes in millimetres, length × width × thickness.

PartQtyLengthWidthThickness
stringer (shaped)2415526350
tread11103029540
tread (shaped)2103029540
handrail, round 50 mm (shaped)240404949
post, timber 90x90213789090
post, timber 90x90211979090
baluster, steel square bar 18 mm (shaped)528471818

Fixings: 3 × tie rod M10x1127, 28 × washer M10, 22 × nut M10, 52 × stud M8x80, glued, 52 × screw 5x45, 2 × bracket, concealed post base 90, 4 × anchor bolt M10x100, 4 × stud M10x117, 4 × anchor bolt M10x200, 6 × bolt M10x170, 6 × nut M10, barrel.

Closed risers, a steel frame, another width or railing: change it in uCAD, and the parts are worked out again, with a cut list of the boards to buy. Sizes of the structure are the library’s defaults for a house stair, not an engineer’s calculation for yours.

Another height or width

Straight stairs for 2.50 m in 3D, between its floor and the floor above
This stair in 3D, between its floor and the floor above.

Will it fit your room?

Open it in uCAD, draw your walls round it and look: turn it the other way, move the turn up or down, change the width. Or tell the AI: “a stair for 2.50 m in a 2 × 3 m stairwell”, and it draws one that fits.

Open this stair in uCAD

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