A stair builder is the person who actually builds the
stairway. When I was working on construction crews that were building
hundreds of homes, it was my job to build the stairway and it was
another person's job to finish the stairway.
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Framing Carpenter - Stair Builder
The framing carpenter's job is to layout, cut and build the rough
stairway. This was the set of stairs that you would walk up and down and
could be finished in lots of different ways.
Most of the stairways that I built as a framing carpenter, were carpeted
and finished with elaborate wood handrails. As a rough stair builder, I
rarely met or dealt with the finish carpenters.
Finish Carpenter - Stair Builder
The finish carpenters job was to install the handrailing, skirt boards,
tread and riser ends, balusters, banisters and anything else that was
required to complete the stairway, with the exception of painting or
staining the parts.
It wasn't common for a finish carpenter to paint or apply any type of
finish to the stairway parts that were installed by them. This would
have been a job for the painter, but every once in awhile it would have
been the finish carpenters responsibility, but this was rare.
I spent it least 10 years of my life building stairs for tract homes and
would definitely consider myself to be a stair builder.
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