Stairs by floor height · 2.80 m · U-shaped, winders
U-shaped stairs with winders for a 2.80 m floor height
16 risers of 17.5 cm and 15 treads 28 cm deep, at 32°. 1.00 m wide, it takes 2.10 m × 2.40 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
2.80 m (280 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 20 cm | 25 cm | 39° | 3.25 m | steeper, fewer steps | open |
| 15 | 18.7 cm | 26 cm | 36° | 3.64 m | steeper, fewer steps | open |
| 16 | 17.5 cm | 28 cm | 32° | 4.20 m | comfortable (drawn here) | open |
| 17 | 16.5 cm | 30 cm | 29° | 4.80 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. 233 parts in all, every bolt and weld among them. Sizes in millimetres, length × width × thickness.
| Part | Qty | Length | Width | Thickness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2843 | 422 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2480 | 417 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2217 | 351 | 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 | 1651 | 264 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 1308 | 264 | 50 |
| tread | 9 | 1030 | 305 | 40 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 2915 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1827 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1781 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1388 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1371 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1190 | 90 | 90 |
| handrail, round 50 mm (shaped) | 1 | 1533 | 49 | 49 |
| handrail, round 50 mm (shaped) | 1 | 1203 | 49 | 49 |
| baluster, steel square bar 18 mm (shaped) | 13 | 847 | 18 | 18 |
| baluster, steel square bar 18 mm (shaped) | 3 | 846 | 18 | 18 |
Fixings: 16 × stud M8x80, glued, 16 × 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 2.80 m in a 2 × 3 m stairwell”, and it draws one that fits.
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