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Stairs by floor height · 3.35 m

Stairs for a 3.35 m floor-to-floor height

3.35 m (335 cm) from floor to floor takes 19 risers of 17.6 cm and 18 treads 28 cm deep: a pitch of 32°, and two risers and a going make 63.3 cm, an easy stride. A straight flight is 5.04 m long and needs an opening of 3.49 m in the floor above.

19risers
17.6 cmeach riser
28 cmgoing (tread depth)
18treads (the last riser is up to the floor)
32°pitch
5.04 mrun of a straight flight
opening 3.49 m riser 17.6 cm going 28 cm 32° run 5.04 m 2 m clear over every nosing

How it’s worked out

The fewest risers that keep each at most 18 cm (7″) high, all the same: 3.35 m ÷ 19 = 17.6 cm. The going follows the stair builders’ rule that two risers and a going make a stride of about 63 cm (25″). There is one tread fewer than risers: the last riser goes up to the upper floor itself.

If 3.35 m is your ceiling height, the stair is taller: add the floor above it, usually 25–35 cm.

More or fewer steps

Fewer risers make a shorter, steeper stair; more make a longer, easier one.

RisersEach riserGoingPitchRun of a straight flightHow it walks
1719.7 cm25 cm38°4.00 msteeper, fewer steps
1818.6 cm26 cm36°4.42 msteeper, fewer steps
1917.6 cm28 cm32°5.04 mcomfortable (drawn here)
2016.8 cm30 cm29°5.70 mcomfortable

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.

This stair in each layout

Each drawn for 3.35 m: the flights 1.00 m wide, the spiral 1.60 m across, the square one in a 1.80 m stairwell. The size is over the treads. Pick one for its plan, its sizes and its parts.

Change anything

A different width, a turn the other way, closed risers, a steel frame: open the stair in uCAD and set it in the panel, or tell the AI what the stair has to fit into.

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Other heights

Other heights: 3.30 m · 3.40 m · all heights

Measured between finished floors. A few centimetres change the riser, not the count, until a riser passes 18 cm.