Stairs by floor height · 2.55 m · U-shaped, winders
U-shaped stairs with winders for a 2.55 m floor height
15 risers of 17 cm and 14 treads 29 cm deep, at 30°. 1.00 m wide, it takes 2.10 m × 2.16 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
More or fewer steps
2.55 m (255 cm) can be climbed in fewer, higher steps or more, lower ones. Each opens in uCAD as this stair with that many risers.
| Risers | Each riser | Going | Pitch | Run of a straight flight | How it walks | In uCAD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 19.6 cm | 25 cm | 38° | 3.00 m | steeper, fewer steps | open |
| 14 | 18.2 cm | 27 cm | 34° | 3.51 m | comfortable | open |
| 15 | 17 cm | 29 cm | 30° | 4.06 m | comfortable (drawn here) | open |
| 16 | 15.9 cm | 31 cm | 27° | 4.65 m | comfortable | open |
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. 226 parts in all, every bolt and weld among them. Sizes in millimetres, length × width × thickness.
| Part | Qty | Length | Width | Thickness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2512 | 403 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2488 | 406 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2207 | 345 | 50 |
| tread (shaped) | 1 | 1204 | 595 | 40 |
| tread (shaped) | 1 | 1357 | 526 | 40 |
| tread (shaped) | 1 | 1190 | 599 | 40 |
| tread (shaped) | 1 | 1213 | 587 | 40 |
| tread (shaped) | 1 | 1199 | 591 | 40 |
| tread (shaped) | 1 | 1356 | 514 | 40 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 1337 | 263 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 1323 | 263 | 50 |
| tread | 8 | 1030 | 315 | 40 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 2857 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1802 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1731 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1363 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1339 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1181 | 90 | 90 |
| handrail, round 50 mm (shaped) | 2 | 1229 | 49 | 49 |
| baluster, steel square bar 18 mm (shaped) | 14 | 846 | 18 | 18 |
Fixings: 14 × stud M8x80, glued, 14 × screw 5x45, 5 × bracket, concealed post base 90, 12 × anchor bolt M10x100, 54 × washer M10, 38 × nut M10, 10 × stud M10x117, 2 × anchor bolt M10x200, 2 × bracket, steel angle 100x100x8, 2 × stud M10x85, 16 × bolt M10x170, 16 × 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

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 2.55 m in a 2 × 3 m stairwell”, and it draws one that fits.
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