Tract stairs are usually referred to as stairs that are
built for new home building tracts. For example if a home builder was
building more than 10 homes at one time, this would be considered a
housing tract. Each one of the stairs built in the housing tract would
be considered tract stairs.
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Mass Production And Tract Stairs
I don't remember what the largest housing tract I ever worked on,
actually was, but I do remember working on one that had about 120
stairs. At the time, I had two other jobs going and couldn't work on one
at a time, and would rotate my days between all three.
It would normally take me about two weeks to cut 120 stairs, but what
happened next, caught me totally off guard. I went to work on Monday and
started cutting the stairs, the next two days I spent at two different
jobs and came back Thursday. There wasn't a big difference, the wall
framers were going at a pretty good clip, but this was normal.
By the time I came back next week, they had the entire job framed out
and were about halfway done with the floors. I hadn't even cut 1/5 of
the tract stairs yet. I needed to hire some people and I needed to hire
them fast.
To make a long story short, I hired two of the job site Foreman's sons
and they help me finish the job, but I was so far behind, from the very
beginning, that I never caught up. They were building the roofs, at the
time we were building the stairs.
Mass production tract home framing at its maximum capacity, can be
simply amazing. When you really get a crew that works together and knows
what they're doing, they can really assemble a lot of product and
assemble these homes fast.
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