To understand stairs, let’s talk about floors. Like many Americans, you might live in a home with a wood-floor system. The ...

Amateur carpenters who have laid out the cuts in a stair stringer (the zig-zag structural support for the steps) know the queasy feeling that bubbles up at the prospect of this job. There’s the ...

The stairs' stringers, located on the sides of the stairs, must be designed and cut with care, since they're the structural members holding up the stairs' dead and live loads. To ensure the safety ...

To understand stairs, let’s talk about floors. Like many Americans, you might live in a home with a wood-floor system.

The stair treads and risers are fastened to and held firm by stringers, which are analogous to the joists under a floor. The stringers are the bones of the stairs. They’re what support you and ...