Spiral Stairs
Designing and
building spiral stairs will require a little more than basic math skills.
It will require geometry, trigonometry, understanding circles, radius,
diameters and complicated math formulas. I have a stair book at home of
nothing but math formulas used to build the stairs.
Designing circular stairs that will be
freestanding with nothing underneath them to hold them up will require
more math skills and advanced construction skills. Circular stairs are
among the hardest parts of house framing. Building a handrail for a
set of spiral stairs will be one of the most difficult tasks performed
by a finish carpenter.
Spiral stairs designing will require more space used in the home due
to its massive size. There are different types of spiral stairs, you
can have a circular set of stairs for the first two steps to six steps
and then the rest of the stairs would be straight.
This gives the effect
of something fancy or rich looking at the bottom eye level. And
then the rest of the way straight which of course is easier to build and
cost effective but gives you the elegant look of spiral stairs.
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