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it is about concrete stair treads and wood stringers, but if they're not
maintained or built correctly, you're going to have problems. I've been
building stairs for over three decades and have a pretty good idea
what's going to happen to them, if they're designed or assembled
incorrectly.
Concrete Stair Tread Installation Tips
1. Make sure that they are positioned correctly and have the same rise
and run for each individual stair tread. I've seen plenty of them
slapped together, often creating safety hazards. It's not uncommon to
see these stair steps at odd angles and tilting in a variety of
different directions.
2. Make sure that their level. Believe it or not, I was working on one
job, where I put together the stair stringers and someone else attach
the concrete treads, to the metal brackets that I had attached, to the
wood stringers. The foreman called me over and demanded an explanation
for the stair treads that weren't level.
I took a look around and it didn't take me long to realize that the
metal inside of the pre-manufactured concrete stair treads wasn't flat
and this was creating the problem.
You're probably not going to find this hard to believe, especially, if
you've worked in the construction industry as long as I have. On these
particular stairs, I actually provided the concrete stair tread
installers with a few pencil marks, showing them exactly where each
stair treads needed to be positioned.
Talking about making the next person's job as easy as possible, and they
still messed it up.
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