On May 15, nearly 30 students at Lee University in Virginia were injured when an off-campus house’s deck collapsed. Like most deck disasters, with a little DIY inspection, this one could likely have been prevented.
Rot at the stair stringer bottom(yellow circle) can lead to stairs settling out of level - increasing the risk of slips and falls and in more-extreme cases, causing separation of connection of stair stringers to the deck frame. Watch out: End-nailed stair treads, with no cleats nor rabbe...
I fastened the assembly together using nails, ThruLok bolts, and structural screws through the entire stack of blocks above and below the hanger board. I reinforced the stringer-to
To plan the stairs I determined the distance between the deck surface and the ground. It was 49”. The standard for stairs is a run of 10” for every 7” rise, so I’d need 6 step stringers for my stairs. The 7th step is from the top of the stringer to the deck. I used two ...
No matter how accurately you install joist hangers, you will still be faced with joists that are a bit larger or smaller than others. If you wind up with a joist that sits too high in its hanger, trim a bit off the bottom with a chisel. ...
The assembled stringers are then fastened to the framing with adjustable strap-like hanger brackets. Once the brackets are fastened to the joist/stringers, the stair trays make final assembly fast. Because we used rivets for all of the top fasteners, we didn’t have to counterbore the back of...
. Recommended Product: TA Staircase Angles Joist-to-Ledger Where joists terminate into a beam or ledger, a joist hanger is needed to provide bearing without costly blocking. Recommended Products: LUC and LUS Joist Hangers Stair Stringer-to-Deck Framing A connector makes the connection stronger ...
You will need 1 stringer for every 2 feet (0.6 m) of stair treads. Unless your stairs are more than 4 feet (1.2 m) wide, you will only need the 2 exterior stringers and 1 middle stringer.[11] 5 Screw 2" x 12" boards to the stringers to finish the stairs. 6 Build a gate. ...
Stair Stringer Attachment Detail STAIR HANDRAIL REQUIREMENTS All stairs with 4 or more risers shall have a handrail on at least one side (see Figure 32A) [R311.7.7]. The handrail height measured vertically from the sloped plane adjoining the tread nosing shall be not less than 34 inches and...