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Stair Glossary of Terms

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Are you confused, when someone uses a word or term, in the construction industry? Well, maybe we have it in our glossary of stair building terms and you can see what it means. Check it out.

Adhesive

Anchor

Anchor Bolts

Angle Bracket 

Ash

Assembling

Attic Stairs

Balcony

Balcony Handrail 

Balusters

Balustrade

Basement

Base Plate

Beech

Bellhangers Bit

Bending Risers

Bevel

Blueprints 

Bows And Crowns

Box Newel

Box Stairway

Bracing

Bracket 

Brazilian Cherry

Brick Stairs

Building

Building Codes

Building Foundation 

Building Hardware

Building Inspector

Building Plans 

Bullnosing

Butt Joint

C Clamp

Cable Handrail

Clamps

Cabinet Scraper

Calculator 

Cantilever

Cantilevered Stairway

Cap  

Carpeting 

Carriage

Cedar

Ceiling

Chalk Line

Chamfering 

Cherry Wood 

Chisel

Cleat

Climb Cutting

Closed Stairway 

Code Requirements

Column

Commercial

Concrete 

Concrete Balusters

Concrete Block Stairs

Concrete Stair Footing

Concrete Stringer Pad 

Construction

Construction Standard Lumber

Corrosion

Cove Molding

Cripple Wall 

Cross Section

Curved Stairs

Custom Stairs

Cutting Stairs

Dead Blow Hammer

Deck

Deck Stairs 

Design

Details 

Diameter

Dog Stairs

Double Ended Lag

Double Helix Stairs

Douglas Fir

Drip Kerf

Dry Rot 

Dry Run

Drywall Spacer

Easement

Easing 

End Return

Engineered Lumber 

Engineered Stairs

Engineering

Epoxy

Equipment

Escutcheon

Exterior

Face Grain Plug

Face Stringer

False Tread  

Fascia 

Field Measurement

Fillet

Finial

Finished Floor

Finished Stairs

Finished Wall

Fire Block 

First Floor 

Flight Of Stairs 

Floating Staircase

Flush Bolt 

Fluting

Freestanding Stairs

French Curve

Folding Stairway

Forming

Foundation

Framing  

Framing Anchors  

Framing Square

Galvanized

Gauges

Geometry

Glass

Glue

Glue Blocks

Glulam

Gluing And Clamping

Gooseneck

Grab Railing

Gripable Handrailing  

Guard Railing

Gusset

Half Newel

Half Round Risers

Handrail Backing

Handrail Brackets

Handrail Jacks  

Handrailing Wall Return

Hanger Board 

Hardwood

Header 

Head Room

Headout

Helix Stairs

Hickory

Hidden Bolts

Horses

Hot Dipped Galvanized

Housed Stringer

Impact Drivers

Industrial

Industrial Stairs

Interior

International Building Code

Invisible Balusters

Jack Studs

Jigs

Jobsite Assembly

Joist

Joist Hanger

Kick Boards

Knee Wall 

Knob

Knotty Pine

L Shaped Stairs

Lag Screws  

Laminating

Lamb's Tongue

Landing

Landing Footing

Landing Newel

Landing Pad  

Landing Step

Landing Tread

Laser Plumb Bob

Lathe

Layout

Ledger

Left Hand

Left Quarter Turn

Length Of Staircase 

Level

Level Cut

Level Quarterturn

Level Rail

Line Of Travel

Lintel

Load

Loft Stairs 

Log Stairs

Lower Stairs

Lumber

Lumber Defects

Mahogany

Maple

Marble Stairs 

Measuring

Measurement

Measurement Tolerance

Metal

Metal Stairs

Microlam

Mid Rail

Mill Finish

Mitering

Modular Stairs

Moisture Management

Molding

Mortise And Tenon 

Mortising  

Nails

Newel Post

Non Slip Treads

Nosing

Notched Stair Stringer

Oak

On Center

Open Stairway

Open Tread Stairs

Oriented Strand Board

Outdoor Stairs

Out Of Level

Overhand Easing

Over Post Railing

Paint Grade

Paralam

Parallel

Pattern

Perpendicular

Pet Stairs

Picket

Pinch Sticks

Pine

Pitch

Pitch Blocks

Planer

Platform

Plow 

Plumb Bob

Plumb Cut

Plywood

Pocket

Poplar

Portable Stairs

Post  

Post Caps

Post To Post  

Preacher

Prefabricated Stairs

Pre Painted 

Primed Materials

Protractor

Pull Down Stairs

Quarter Turn Fitting 

Rabbit Joint

Radial Arm Saw

Radius

Rail Bolts

Rail Fitting

Railing  

Rake Rail

Rake Wall

Red Oak

Redwood  

Reference Line

Reference Mark

Reinforcing

Renovation

Repairs

Residential

Right Hand

Right Quarter Turn

Rise

Riser

Rosette

Rough Carpentry

Rough Stringer

Router  

Router Bit 

Rubber Stair Treads

Run

Safety

Saw Kerf

Scale

Scale Drawing

Scissor Stairs

Screw  

Scotia Molding

Scrolling

Seasonal Movement

Second Floor

Second Stringer Layout

Sheathing  

Shim

Ships Ladder

Shoe Rail

Shop Built Stairs

Shop Drawing

Shooting Boards

Single Stinger Stairway

Skilsaw

Skirt Board

Sliding Stairway

Slope

Soft Woods

Solid Tread

Southern Pine

Space Saving Stairs

Spade Drill Bits

Spindle

Spiral Stairway

Splice Plate 

Spline Joint

Split Landing

Squeaking Stairs

Square

Stairs

Stair Builder

Staircase

Stair Chair

Stair Closet

Stair Edging

Stair Gauges 

Stair Horses

Stair Kits 

Stair Lift

Stair Lighting

Stair Mats

Stair Plans

Stair Protector

Stair Rods

Stair Rugs

Stair Runners

Stair Safety Gate

Stairway

Stairwell  

Starting Easing

Starting Newel

Starting Step

Steel Stairs  

Step 

Stiffener

Stone Stairs

Story Height

Story Pole

Strait Run Stairway

Stringer

Stringerless Stairs 

Stringer Layout  

Strongback

Structural Engineering

Strut

Stud

Subfloor  

Subriser

Subtread

Sun Damage

Supporting Wall  

Symmetry

Table Saw

Tandem Cap 

Tape Measure

Teco Clip

Telescoping Attic Stairs

Template

Tenon

Thickness

Toe Board

Top Plate

Tools

Total Rise

Total Run  

Tract Stairs

Travel Area

Tread Brackets

Tread Depth

Tread Ends 

Tread Mats  

Tread Overhang  

Tread Pan 

Tread Slope

Tread Under Cut  

Tread

Treated Lumber

Trex

Truing A Post  

Turn Out 

Uniform Building Code

Victorian

Vinyl Handrails

Vinyl Stair Treads

Volute

Wall Framing

Wall Rail Bracket

Wall Rails

Walnut  

Water Damage

Wedges

Well Hole 

White Oak

Winder Stairs

Witness Marks 

Wood

Wood Filler

Wood Plug

Wood Stairs 

Wrought Iron

Zinc

 

 

 

 

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