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Stairs by floor height · 2.50 m · U-shaped, winders

U-shaped stairs with winders 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 2.10 m × 2.08 m of floor. Six winders carry it round the half turn, each taking a riser, so it needs no landing.

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
2.10 m × 2.08 mfootprint, over the treads
12345678910111213up2.10 m2.08 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. 216 parts in all, every bolt and weld among them. Sizes in millimetres, length × width × thickness.

PartQtyLengthWidthThickness
stringer (shaped)1248342150
stringer (shaped)1212641450
stringer (shaped)1222435550
tread (shaped)1120459540
tread (shaped)1135752640
tread (shaped)1119059940
tread (shaped)1121358740
tread (shaped)1119959140
tread (shaped)1135651440
stringer (shaped)1130126350
tread7103029540
stringer (shaped)196626350
post, timber 90x90127779090
post, timber 90x90116669090
post, timber 90x90116389090
post, timber 90x90113789090
post, timber 90x90112219090
post, timber 90x90111979090
handrail, round 50 mm (shaped)111754949
handrail, round 50 mm (shaped)18514949
baluster, steel square bar 18 mm (shaped)128471818

Fixings: 12 × stud M8x80, glued, 12 × screw 5x45, 5 × bracket, concealed post base 90, 12 × anchor bolt M10x100, 53 × washer M10, 38 × nut M10, 10 × stud M10x117, 2 × anchor bolt M10x200, 2 × bracket, steel angle 100x100x8, 2 × stud M10x85, 15 × bolt M10x170, 15 × 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

U-shaped stairs with winders 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.

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