You start with the step not the riser at the top. Otherwise you dado the treads and risers into the stringers. This gives you a lot more beef to hold the stairs.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:22 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Attaching stair stringers. I am not sure I can explain my question, but I'll give it a try. When you are building stairs, assuming you are using box type steps where the stringers are cut like a saw tooth pattern, and you lay the treads and risers. How do you attach the upper end of the stringers to the horizontal joist? So, if the joist you are attaching to is a 2X10, 9.5 inches high. and, the step height you are shooting for is say 7.5 inches. That means that the top edge of the stringer is 7.5 inches below the top edge of the joist. In other words, there is only a two inch overlap of the top of the stringer and the bottom of the joist. That doesn't seem all that secure. I know there are angled joist hangars to hang the stringers, but do you really just nail the hangar with a couple of nails near the top and the rest of the stringer hangs below? What am I missing? -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1577 - Release Date: 7/28/2008 6:55 AM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
