Stairs by floor height · 8 ft · Straight
Straight stairs for an 8 ft floor height
14 risers of 6 7/8″ and 13 treads 11″ deep, at 32°. 36″ wide, it takes 3′ × 11′ 11 5/16″ of floor. It is 11′ 11 5/16″ long and needs an opening of 11′ 7 1/4″ in the floor above for 2 m clear over every nosing.
Open this stair in uCADWhat it’s made of
More or fewer steps
8 ft (96″) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 8″ | 9 13/16″ | 39° | 9′ 1/4″ | over the IRC’s 7¾″ riser | open |
| 13 | 7 3/8″ | 9 13/16″ | 37° | 9′ 10 1/8″ | treads under the IRC’s 10″ | open |
| 14 | 6 7/8″ | 11″ | 32° | 11′ 11 5/16″ | comfortable (drawn here) | open |
| 15 | 6 3/8″ | 11 13/16″ | 28° | 13′ 9 3/8″ | comfortable | open |
The IRC (US homes) allows risers up to 7¾″ and asks for treads of at least 10″, 6′8″ of headroom and a width of 36″; states and towns amend it. 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. 268 parts in all, every bolt and weld among them. Sizes in inches, length × width × thickness.
| Part | Qty | Length | Width | Thickness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stringer (shaped) | 2 | 166 3/8″ | 10 3/8″ | 1 15/16″ |
| tread | 11 | 37 3/16″ | 12″ | 1 9/16″ |
| tread (shaped) | 2 | 37 3/16″ | 12″ | 1 9/16″ |
| handrail, round 50 mm (shaped) | 2 | 162 5/16″ | 1 15/16″ | 1 15/16″ |
| post, timber 90x90 | 2 | 53 15/16″ | 3 9/16″ | 3 9/16″ |
| post, timber 90x90 | 2 | 46 3/4″ | 3 9/16″ | 3 9/16″ |
| baluster, steel square bar 18 mm (shaped) | 54 | 33 5/16″ | 11/16″ | 11/16″ |
Fixings: 3 × tie rod M10x1041, 30 × washer M10, 22 × nut M10, 54 × stud M8x80, glued, 54 × screw 5x45, 2 × bracket, concealed post base 90, 4 × anchor bolt M10x100, 4 × stud M10x117, 4 × anchor bolt M10x200, 8 × bolt M10x170, 8 × 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 8 ft in a 7 × 10 ft stairwell”, and it draws one that fits.
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