Congrats guys, your custom DIY natural wood & log spiral staircase is nothing short of AWESOME on so many different levels for so many different reasons ! 2 Thumbs Up on a job well done !!
My girlfriend been in the hospital in arizona and she might need brain surgery and i been watching ur videos to keep me going while shes up there and i cnt b with her ur videos keep me from loseing it and freaking out please pray for her thank u
I remember dragging rolls of carpet and pad up spiral stairs to install in lofts back in the day, and wrapping pie shaped steps with it. Ugh. I think it left a bad taste in my mouth for spiral staircases.............however.............that staircase is absolutely beautiful. Very nice job.
They used to put random uneven heights in the rise in the steps in castles in the dark stairwells. When attacking parties would chase a person in a dark stairwell, and they did not know where the " stumble steps" were well you can guess what would happen. You will be safe from attackers. The residents of the castles knew where the steps were.
Looks great, wish I could try it out. I always wanted to build one of these so seeing you do this is awesome. The handrail still has me wondering though, I am sure you'll figure it out.
I love the ascetic of the spiral stair cases! They are so nostalgic. But practically speaking, I'm seriously concerned... how are you possibly going to get any furniture up there through that? Teehee, likely you've already worked that out and I've missed some video where that got explained. Looks awesome and the work is excellent for sure! Thanks for sharing, can't wait to see how the railing comes together! Smiles and blessings...
Thanks! Yes, there is no carrying furniture up or down them. But, the workaround is to look to the center beam in the ceiling.. It's relatively easy to attach a ratchet strap/pulley system there and hoist objects up and down, there is nothing obstructing from below the loft railing. Although we are using the loft as a bedroom currently, it's not really designed to be one. When we finish the rest of the house and are ready to move the bed down to it's intended location (current living area) THAT will be an interesting video to watch!
Thanks! Yes, you could say that. Basically the 3 big ones are 1. finish the closet 2. install radiant heat into the bathroom and kitchen area 3. build the steam shower. BUT all that comes after installing the railing, which I hope can be done before the end of the month.
with the two of you, great ideas just keep coming and coming. two quick questions Amy. Brian said that he would like to replace the bands around the centers with leather straps. now you being the arts and crafts person, if you soak leather in water, will it shrink when it dries. if it does, you can soak the leather strips, wrap them around the center pieces, than as they dry, they will tighten up around the wood, and hold them together much stronger. now my other question is about your puppy. the pillow he lays on outside, is it waterproof. being it is out there in the rain and snow, it might start to get mildew, and the dog in laying on it. that wouldn't be good for him. i am a dog lover, and have two small dogs, and trust me, they live better than i do. oh yea, the upstairs landing, is a fantastic idea.
Yeah, that's a great point about the leather. The furniture is on the verge of being tossed in the dump, it probably won't hold up another winter & year of sun. Things seem to sun rot quicker than anything else.
Very nice job on staircase, that can be a centre piece of the house, if you want to have that banding tighter you can use black steel strapping that has clips and a tightener and then you crimp the clip with a tool, you can get them pretty tight as they’re normally used on steel coils or skids, you can Google it, continued success Sincerely Fabrizio
Thank you! Bryan made a jig tool for the banding and it was really quite tight, but the wood dried a bit more since then. He just doesn't like the look of it now.
Colorado Mountain Living alright sounds good, just don’t want it to split, my parents home have a complete square log tree running over the fireplace the full width of the room and they decided one day to completely paint it white where it was natural open pore wood before, that log shrunk down at least 3 or 4 inches on each side because the moisture wasn’t able to get into the wood and it completely dried out, just mentioning it so that maybe you oil the wood and possibly don’t put anything that’s going to seal it completely from the humidity in the room so you don’t get massive contraction, just relaying some past experiences, truly looks great want to keep it looking that way, if you haven’t decided on the railing also still think some thick cabling that goes up to the platform would give support on the steps and something to grab going down or up the steps then you can run a rigid piece of whatever you’d like attached to the cabling in a spiral going down the steps, just some ideas whatever you do I’m know will be fantastic, continued success Fabrizio
looks really nice good job ... just remember always leave something to do on your house , after 20 years ours isn't finished just yet ha! old Chinese proverb " when a mans house is finished his life is over "
Thanks! Yes, you have to have an opening to the stairs below that gives 6 ft 6 inches of clearance. If you move it to the left, the stairs are higher on that side and you don't get the head clearance.
The way that you get the exact tread height is to get the overall height in inches and divide it by 7 if you have a remainder add one more step then take the number of stairs and divide into the overall height and that will give you the exact tread height. You can not have more than a 3/16 difference in tread height. I hope this helps someone.
...have to interject ,, headspace ,, unless changed ,, has always been 80" ,, (6ft 8in.) ,,not 6'6" .... treads from top to bottom within 3/8" max....measured from finished landing to finished landing.... 8"+/-- tread top to tread top equal overall...under 4" spacing anywhere on stair system ...again ,,check with your county inspector.. and save any aggravation of having to redo ... ..unless changed ,, check with your county inspector....built stairs and finish work in Colo.for 25 years... But ,, not all inspectors stayed to UBC code ... .....feed them a BBQ dinner and a couple of beers ,, you might get the c/o signed from the back deck ,,,,, instead of the front door..... ...have been through many houses that were not up to code....
Test the sheer strength of your lag bolts I bought some from Lowe's and used them on a barn door and they they broke right at the head while tightening just securing two doors together no force other than tightening the soft pine across two doors 1/2 inch your situation is structural just my 2 cents
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Congrats guys, your custom DIY natural wood & log spiral staircase is nothing short of AWESOME on so many different levels for so many different reasons ! 2 Thumbs Up on a job well done !!
Thanks so much!
That's staircase looks great your husband has plenty of talent
I think so too!
You two are something else and I know you are about finished. Take care and GOD bless.
Thanks, you too!
Well the stairs came out fantastic looking, well done guys. It was great fun to see Amy going up the stairs for the first time. Congratulations. peace
Thanks!! so fun to see it all come together, another room reclaimed!
Nice job guys, it looks awesome Brian keep up the good work and thanks for sharing!
Thanks! Will do!
Measure 3 times and cut once!!! Great job!!!!!!! The gymnastic classes are finally paying off.
Yes! Thank you!
Very nice 👍 looks awesome.
Thank you! Cheers!
My girlfriend been in the hospital in arizona and she might need brain surgery and i been watching ur videos to keep me going while shes up there and i cnt b with her ur videos keep me from loseing it and freaking out please pray for her thank u
may you have peace and she a full swift recovery
@@ColoradoMountainLiving thank u means alot 🙏🙏🙏
Congratulations guys. Staircase looks great. Kudo's Brian on the plan of it.
Thank you!
WOW! That staircase is wonderful. I will be keeping in touch to see the finished product.
Thank you - us too!
I remember dragging rolls of carpet and pad up spiral stairs to install in lofts back in the day, and wrapping pie shaped steps with it. Ugh. I think it left a bad taste in my mouth for spiral staircases.............however.............that staircase is absolutely beautiful. Very nice job.
Ugh. Sounds terrible. We have a different way to get large objects out of the loft, called a hoist over the beam!
They used to put random uneven heights in the rise in the steps in castles in the dark stairwells. When attacking parties would chase a person in a dark stairwell, and they did not know where the " stumble steps" were well you can guess what would happen. You will be safe from attackers. The residents of the castles knew where the steps were.
Good history lesson
That’s interesting. I didn’t know that.
Nice planning and carpentry work.
Thanks 👍
A labor of love! Looking great!
Thank you so much!
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Wow!! It looks amazing ❤️😁❤️
Thank you!!
He did an awesome job.
Thank you
Such an amazing job really nice. I cant wait to see the next video guys. really good job Brian
Thanks so much!
Bravo bryan formidable tu et arrivé que dire tu à fait un travail formidable bravo bravo 😊😊🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷et encore magnifique bisous de France
Thank you!
Nice job you two!
Thank you! Cheers!
Lookin' good.
Thanks!
realy nice job guys
thanks so much
Well done, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Once again great job you all!
Thank you! Cheers!
@@ColoradoMountainLiving I wish I had taken the time detail the things in the house at the level you guys did...regrets. I've learned a lot though ...
hey WE did a good job they look great
hahahaha!!! now that does sound funny. thanks
Great job Brain Abram !
Thanks!
Hooray!!!!!👍
Yey!!
Looks great, wish I could try it out. I always wanted to build one of these so seeing you do this is awesome. The handrail still has me wondering though, I am sure you'll figure it out.
Thanks! We are getting close on the hand rail now, got a new tool to make it real slick.
I'm just blown away that you're not using a Forstner Drill Bit on those Holes. Oh well!!
Oh well. They get covered up anyway.
I love the ascetic of the spiral stair cases! They are so nostalgic. But practically speaking, I'm seriously concerned... how are you possibly going to get any furniture up there through that? Teehee, likely you've already worked that out and I've missed some video where that got explained. Looks awesome and the work is excellent for sure! Thanks for sharing, can't wait to see how the railing comes together! Smiles and blessings...
Thanks! Yes, there is no carrying furniture up or down them. But, the workaround is to look to the center beam in the ceiling.. It's relatively easy to attach a ratchet strap/pulley system there and hoist objects up and down, there is nothing obstructing from below the loft railing. Although we are using the loft as a bedroom currently, it's not really designed to be one. When we finish the rest of the house and are ready to move the bed down to it's intended location (current living area) THAT will be an interesting video to watch!
Looks great you guys! $20 says you already have half a dozen projects you want to do after this.
Thanks! Yes, you could say that. Basically the 3 big ones are 1. finish the closet 2. install radiant heat into the bathroom and kitchen area 3. build the steam shower. BUT all that comes after installing the railing, which I hope can be done before the end of the month.
with the two of you, great ideas just keep coming and coming. two quick questions Amy. Brian said that he would like to replace the bands around the centers with leather straps. now you being the arts and crafts person, if you soak leather in water, will it shrink when it dries. if it does, you can soak the leather strips, wrap them around the center pieces, than as they dry, they will tighten up around the wood, and hold them together much stronger. now my other question is about your puppy. the pillow he lays on outside, is it waterproof. being it is out there in the rain and snow, it might start to get mildew, and the dog in laying on it. that wouldn't be good for him. i am a dog lover, and have two small dogs, and trust me, they live better than i do. oh yea, the upstairs landing, is a fantastic idea.
Yeah, that's a great point about the leather. The furniture is on the verge of being tossed in the dump, it probably won't hold up another winter & year of sun. Things seem to sun rot quicker than anything else.
Great 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
I think that is awesome
thank you
Very Nice
Thanks
Carry your center pole to ceiling on the third floor. It will help stabilize entire stairs. Fasten to ceiling. Just a suggestion.
Possibly, but since the stairs don't extend past the platform, there is practically zero weight beyond where they are secured to the platform now.
Sweet.
Thanks!
Very nice job on staircase, that can be a centre piece of the house, if you want to have that banding tighter you can use black steel strapping that has clips and a tightener and then you crimp the clip with a tool, you can get them pretty tight as they’re normally used on steel coils or skids, you can Google it, continued success
Sincerely
Fabrizio
Thank you! Bryan made a jig tool for the banding and it was really quite tight, but the wood dried a bit more since then. He just doesn't like the look of it now.
Colorado Mountain Living alright sounds good, just don’t want it to split, my parents home have a complete square log tree running over the fireplace the full width of the room and they decided one day to completely paint it white where it was natural open pore wood before, that log shrunk down at least 3 or 4 inches on each side because the moisture wasn’t able to get into the wood and it completely dried out, just mentioning it so that maybe you oil the wood and possibly don’t put anything that’s going to seal it completely from the humidity in the room so you don’t get massive contraction, just relaying some past experiences, truly looks great want to keep it looking that way, if you haven’t decided on the railing also still think some thick cabling that goes up to the platform would give support on the steps and something to grab going down or up the steps then you can run a rigid piece of whatever you’d like attached to the cabling in a spiral going down the steps, just some ideas whatever you do I’m know will be fantastic, continued success
Fabrizio
looks really nice good job ... just remember always leave something to do on your house , after 20 years ours isn't finished just yet ha! old Chinese proverb " when a mans house is finished his life is over "
hahah! good saying
Yeah ! You did it ! 👍
Can Viggo come up those stairs ?
Yey!! He certainly could; he uses the stairs up and down to the basement already.
@@ColoradoMountainLiving Perfect! He will be able to wake you up in the morning at dawn :D
Great video guys....was there a reason to step off on the right side......I would have done a dry fit and tried both sides just to be sure
Thanks! Yes, you have to have an opening to the stairs below that gives 6 ft 6 inches of clearance. If you move it to the left, the stairs are higher on that side and you don't get the head clearance.
Nice
Thanks
GOOD JOB! What will you do for the landing! Glass? To keep the light? :)
It will stay open and install a railing for safety.
@@ColoradoMountainLiving that is letting in light to! ;)
looks great. what about a braided wooden hand rail. easier to bend.
I think you'll see our next idea will be fairly easy to bend.
The way that you get the exact tread height is to get the overall height in inches and divide it by 7 if you have a remainder add one more step then take the number of stairs and divide into the overall height and that will give you the exact tread height. You can not have more than a 3/16 difference in tread height. I hope this helps someone.
Thanks for the info!
...have to interject ,, headspace ,, unless changed ,, has always been 80" ,, (6ft 8in.) ,,not 6'6" .... treads from top to bottom within 3/8" max....measured from finished landing to finished landing.... 8"+/-- tread top to tread top equal overall...under 4" spacing anywhere on stair system ...again ,,check with your county inspector.. and save any aggravation of having to redo ...
..unless changed ,, check with your county inspector....built stairs and finish work in Colo.for 25 years... But ,, not all inspectors stayed to UBC code ...
.....feed them a BBQ dinner and a couple of beers ,, you might get the c/o signed from the back deck ,,,,, instead of the front door.....
...have been through many houses that were not up to code....
Looks good The Landing could have been twice as big
You need to make sure you have the 6'6" clearance for the step below, so making it bigger, would have eliminated that clearance.
Hi kids!! Well we made it to the top, but no celebration 🎉 in my case where’s the Bud!!
Next time! That was a Looooog work day all packed into a 20 minute recap lol.
@@ColoradoMountainLiving 👍🍺🍺
So have you just been camping downstairs for the past several months, or using a ladder?
we have been camping downstairs for 4 months.
Test the sheer strength of your lag bolts I bought some from Lowe's and used them on a barn door and they they broke right at the head while tightening just securing two doors together no force other than tightening the soft pine across two doors 1/2 inch your situation is structural just my 2 cents
Yes we've had this problem before some certain brands of screws and bolts, happens with impact hammer drill.
Awesome staircase, stay safe, God bless
thank you!
Well ma'am if it got dark on him then why did you turn the sun off on him 4
haha
The most unconfortable stairs!
Uncomfortable to lie down on and make a video scene, yes. but easy to use and not uncomfortable to walk on.
Hello beautiful lady...
I see you have a problem with excessive blinking... is it something called blepharospasm? cuz I used to have that.
no i just had sawdust in my eye
@@ColoradoMountainLiving I see. U guys are working non stop. Ur making it look really good.
I'm impressed