the stringer is cut one riser short to account for this. That is, the house’s framing or the deck framing forms the first riser when stepping down from the deck or the finished floor.

But the framing carpenter is responsible for cutting and installing the stringers. Stringers are the angled stair supports running from the ground to the main floor or from floor to floor.

To understand stairs, let’s talk about floors. Like many Americans, you might live in a home with a wood-floor system. The flooring in your home is supported by wood joists. These joists need to be ...

But you can use pre-cut pressure-treated stair stringers ... a 2 by 4 with a level on top, on the framing of the deck (remember the deck will have a floor and the stairs will have a tread ...

To lay out a set of stair stringers from scratch requires a little ... Measure vertically from the finished floor or deck surface where the stairs will begin to the point on the ground, floor ...

I’ll wager that if I handed you a measuring tape, a framing square ... fastened to and held firm by stringers, which are analogous to the joists under a floor. The stringers are the bones ...