How To Increase Individual Stair Step Depth For The Entire Stairway - Home Remodeling Tips
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2020
- www.homebuildingandrepairs.co... Click on this link for more information about building stairs, new house construction and architectural design. In this video I will provide you with a few interesting facts and construction methods that you can use to increase the individual stair tread depth for an entire existing stairway. Visit our website more helpful videos about stair building, repairs and of course remodeling projects like these.
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Thanks so much for this! I'm looking for a home in Japan but a lot of the older homes have really small steps, like 6 inches deep. I plan to use this technique to fix the steps.
I’m glad I actually could follow this and understand. Now I need a video of someone actually doing this!
Hopefully someone makes one in the future and gives me all the credit and $.
@@stairbuilding about to swallow my pride and integrity and do this. I will gladly give you all credit but unfortunately there's no money in it. Still not sure what I can do to solve the problem of the overall run increasing to the point my bottom landing is reduced to the extent that it will be horribly out of code... Not my job. Not my job. I'm just the monkey paid peanuts to do a job incorrectly because I don't have a choice right now.
Thank you for all your teachings. I'm actually becoming a damn fine stair builder. Just damned if times didn't get hard and I find myself having to take jobs that should have been planned better.
Damnit. This one hurts. I have a month to think on it though. Maybe I can figure out a better way
I’ve been searching forever for a solution to my stair problem and this was perfect! Thank you so much for the information
You are so welcome!
The best explanation EVER!!! Thank you very much ❤️
Glad you think so and thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledges . I just facing exactly that problem with small steps stairs. Thank you so much and God bless you and your family!
Glad it was helpful!
Very clever! Thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome!
Thank you very much for doing this!
My pleasure!
This would work great for the top half of our switchback stairs as we have a good size landing we can extend on. But at the bottom, there is a closet door that opens out and if we extend the steps, it would render the closet unusable. Would it be possible to add additional steps to the landing itself to give us room to extend the length of the tread? Would we need winder steps to accomplish this? Thanks for your help!
Thank for explaining it so well.
You're very welcome!
Thank you , I didn't think of it but I'll have to make a template like your example to make sure it's done right
I would also and you're welcome.
Grate video. Keep doing what you do. Thanks a lot
Much appreciated!
This channel makes me just as confident to build stairs as it makes me scared to build them. What a roller coaster!
Oh go for it and if you make any mistakes hopefully you will have moved by then:)
My 16 year old Grandson is 6’8 with a size 19 shoe. I worry about him on the steps. Thank you for this video!
Thanks for the referring to this video.
Any time!
This is great! I need to do this to my stairs, and I think I was just worried about the safety/security of the filler boards/risers to hold up the new (I'm going to install retrofitted treads to my existing construction stairs that used to have carpet) treads, but this is exactly how I had it worked out in my head to do it. Any thoughts on how to make the rise shorter? My stairs are currently 8"/9" (rise/run) with the first step only being 7" and the rest 8".
Yes, safety is always a concern and if you can't securely fasten the new components, then don't do it. I also don't have any videos for creating shorter steps, because most of these problems require the stairs to be replaced.
@@stairbuilding my words exactly to the contractor I'm working for. "Need to be replaced"
Just not currently in a position to argue I suppose. Contract is signed and it's not as though I was consulted.
Curses.
Yes i got the idea thank you very much sir
Most welcome
@@stairbuilding what is your formula for that sir may I know? Thank you very much....
Hi, thank you so much for this very clear and detailed video. Could you possibly point me to another video, or update this one to show how I can (when I say “I”, I mean my builder! 😀) introduce a winder at the turn from the bottom of the extended run. According to my calculations, by adding approximately 1 inch to each step (using the cumulative method in your video), I would have added one full step to the bottom step… thereby meaning I would need a winder to be in place. Hope my query makes sense… thanks again!
Go to our website and go to the repairs tab, then click on stairs for some more ideas and if you can't find something, let me know.
Genius.
Im totally confused as to why the riser area gains more as you go down. For instance my basement stairs are 7 high 9 deep tread. Can't I replace treads with 10 inch and just support new overhang with a small support under the end or sister to the existing stringer with blocks to add depth for the new 10 inch tread without having to increase each riser build out
My stairs are small and steep,, nearly fell down them about 10 times ,, this might help , thank you for the idea 👍🏻
Happy to help!
Nice to meet you
This is alot easier and cheaper than redoing the side stair treads.
many thanks for this video....I was about to make the mistake of simply adding 1 inch to each step. I suspect I would have quickly realised my error but this has stopped me doing this.
You're welcome.
So what would you do with 12 steps lol. This is my dilemma and is also exactly what I thought of doing initially but I think with so many steps it may look a little funny. Maybe expand the bottom landing and shorten the adjacent wall to match otherwise it is a complete rebuild.
If you can't use these ideas, then I would remove and replace stairs.
For the filler boards. How do we attach those aside from glue. ? Nail gun? Screws?
Any approved fastener's like nails, adhesives and screws.
what if you have just ONE step that is way too short (the last step in a stairwell). Is it not copacetic to add depth to just that one?
Yes!!!
Im new, i just dont get why we are doubling the inches extended as we go down the steps? Cant we just add the inch on everystep?
In some cases it might work, but most of the time it makes the first or last step a little smaller or taller.
@@stairbuilding maybe i need too watch a few more of your vids too wrap my head around it……….i just dont see where we lose inches. Thank u again for the reply hopefully i can learn here😎
is it possible to remove a kite winder to the right and continue it straight on an existing stair case?
In most cases, Yes.
So if I have 10 steps to my basement there currently all 9in treads I want 11 would it be possible
If you have the headroom. This seems to be the biggest obstacle for basement stairs.
could i do this on my basement steps? it would be 11 steps that i want to add 1 or 2 inches too.
I don't see why not.
We finished our basement and I hope to extend my stairs by 1.5 inches as they are currently 8.5" and 13 steps in total. Fortunately I have room and headroom on the bottom to extend the last step 12 or so inches. Now let's see when I have the courage to start this.....
Would you put your filler boards on top of the treads or on the stringer
It will depend on the project. If the stairs steps are exposed like wood finished steps then under, but if you cover them with carpet it might work better going on top.
But either way has the same strength?
I'm replacing carpetted steps with oak, and I want them to be closer to code de,th. Instead of adding all those pieces, could I sister new stringers onto the existing stringers, then put down new treads and risers? The stringers would be inside the old, so the treads would hang over the stringer 1-1/2" on each end. I'd still glue it all together and to the new 1" oak skirt boards. Doubling up the stringer would make it more solid than replacing the old stringer and I wouldn't have to cut it away from the wall framing.
I think that work, but maybe it will be even better to remove and replace stairs.
I was thinking of doing the same exact thing because I can't extend my whole run and there's too much going on under my existing stairs. Framed closet, shelves etc
Hello sir
So... do you think this would be workable with an 8 ft tall staircase inside a home basement? Like 13 treads I think?
As long as the steps and risers work, then yes. I have videos at the website that might help with your calculations.
@@stairbuilding ok. Thank you so much!
What would it cost to have a professional do this? Approximately
I have no idea, but if I did it, maybe 600 dollars.
Building code aside. Can you not just add 1 inch onto each step without increasing the amount as you go down the steps?
This will help, hopefully - ruclips.net/video/BYyfkrBzueo/видео.html
By making the steps wider, doesn't that then increase the starting point of the stairs at the bottom of the stairs? I'll then need to increase the floor space by 5"?
Yes, you can't make the stairway longer, if you don't have the room.
i thought u juice add, won inch, two each, but each won adds won inch double, tripul anna hommer runners. i tinn to move it, anna it addz up; anna multipies ;not goodie if its inn ahh, fitted space
sow ur linking won itch; per step; mackin a lonnger total runn; length
orr u wood hafta shove dahh whiner winder, back,anna movie dahh hole stringer back, to mack ahh fit em up up
u movin out dah total length ;outwards only; not upwards
I dink zo, but mybe not, let my no if dis mikes cents.
@@stairbuilding so ,so ,but, not zoe
Does the nosing pose a trip hazard?
It could even though it's allowed by most building codes.
What's the point
This type of stairway repair or remodel project would be for people who might have older stairs with small steps who need to make them longer and are not interested in removing the stairway and replacing it.
confusing!
It defiantly can be.