Stairs by floor height · 2.80 m · U-shaped, landing
U-shaped stairs with a landing 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 × 2.96 m of floor. 8 risers up to the landing, 8 from it to the floor above.
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. 337 parts in all, every bolt and weld among them. Sizes in millimetres, length × width × thickness.
| Part | Qty | Length | Width | Thickness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| landing (shaped) | 1 | 2144 | 1046 | 40 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2423 | 264 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2381 | 264 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2311 | 264 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2299 | 264 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 2020 | 280 | 50 |
| tread | 12 | 1030 | 305 | 40 |
| tread (shaped) | 2 | 1030 | 305 | 40 |
| stringer | 1 | 915 | 280 | 50 |
| stringer (shaped) | 1 | 915 | 280 | 50 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 2565 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 2352 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1654 | 90 | 90 |
| beam, timber 50x150 | 2 | 920 | 150 | 50 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 3 | 1435 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1371 | 90 | 90 |
| post, timber 90x90 | 1 | 1190 | 90 | 90 |
| handrail, round 50 mm (shaped) | 2 | 2194 | 49 | 49 |
| baluster, steel square bar 18 mm (shaped) | 21 | 847 | 18 | 18 |
| baluster, steel square bar 18 mm (shaped) | 7 | 846 | 18 | 18 |
Fixings: 28 × stud M8x80, glued, 28 × screw 5x45, 7 × bracket, concealed post base 90, 16 × anchor bolt M10x100, 74 × washer M10, 50 × nut M10, 14 × stud M10x117, 2 × anchor bolt M10x200, 2 × bracket, steel angle 100x100x8, 2 × stud M10x85, 24 × bolt M10x170, 24 × nut M10, barrel, 4 × bracket, joist hanger 50x150.
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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