Tempory Stairs

summertime

Hi have a laugh at these stairs, may look rough but were made fast out of rubbish on site, bugger climbing ladders with your tools at my age, feel free to have a snipe

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mdshunk

Hey, that looks fine. Here in the US, if a passage requires more than 25 people per day to climb a ladder or such, you need to build a set of temporary stairs. They look as good as any I've seen. Handrails and all.

RobertCDF

I have seen worse.... ON A FRICKING deck that someone paid for... AND I have seen it more than once!

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Mike Finley

Quite impressive. I'd still use a ladder and burn 6 hours over the course of the job then take the 2 hours to build those. Just me.

Double-A

You're assuming he's only going to use them for one day. Two hours invested beats a weeks worth of ladder schlepping.

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Mike Finley

No, I realize that, that's why I said I would still burn up 6 hours in lost productivity over the course of the job by using a ladder. I'd be too tired to work that day after building those stairs.

summertime

Hi, I should have said there is a bedroom, walk in closset and bathroom that has to be constructed in the rooms at the top of the stairs

Double-A

I'm tired just looking at them. I think Summertime could outwork me and still build those stairs any day of the week.

Nice job, Summer. I think they are perfect for the need.

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Peladu

Disagree....
I don't bid jobs to build temp stairs....
Temp stairs that if another trade, usually the electricians, will fall down and sue.

Frankly, if anyone thinks that the time it took him to build these stairs could be made up within one weeks time of 'on the job' is foolish.

Why not just build the stringer that's going to be built anyway, and be over with it......unnduhhhh.

rino1494

Why do you have to build temp stairs? Isn't it up to the framer or GC to put them in ?

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summertime

Hi all, the situation is like this, I work on a self employed basis £135 per day, I work all the time for the same company, all the photos are of the Bosses house, this is avery large country hall. the construction manager told me to buil the stairs, In the Uk srairs are never, never ever built on site. The ones that will go in for good will be made in oak
the cost of the temp. stairs is nothing, the kitchen is costing 850000,00 GB pounds ( thats 850 thousand pounds, about 1615 thousand US dollars) we are not talking tract building here, I will post pictures as the job progresses

Peladu

PLease post pictures....I am truely interested on what a $ 1.6M (USD)
Kitchen looks like......I did a $100K (USD) Kitchen last
year and it came out bang-in'. Would like to see what can be done
with a kitchen worth $ 1.6 Million.....
...Thanks for the photo's to come....

Gordo

That must be some house (manor). I thought it was a commercial job from the looks of the framing and the wiring.

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Gordo

What does snipe mean?

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mdshunk

Snipe, as in "take a shot at" or "complain about", "make fun of", etc.

In other words, the normal thing people on the internet do when someone posts a picture of something they did.

Gordo

I think Peladu took two 'snipes'.

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Mike Finley

At that budget, I think it calls for an installation of a temporary elevator, or an escalator at the very least! Wooden stairs, how gauche!

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Snipe tastes like chicken.

summertime

Hi all, take a look at this site, Brookmans.co.uk my boss Dawn Ward who is obvisly a woman is spending 1.2 million UK pounds with this company to fitout the kitchen, wallnut panel stairs and hall, the master bedroom and two seperate dressing rooms( hi and hers) these are about 20ft square each. Her dressing room is the one with the 10ft 6in circle in the middle. the wardrobes are going to be circular round the room, walnut doors inlaid with silver. off of there respective dressing rooms each will have there own bathroom, with rain shower and ceiling fill bath etc. All we will do is the prep work to this lot.
I am going to do the two daughters dressing rooms and badrooms, much lower spec, one of which will be up those temp. stairs and under that blind valley roof that over a new bay that I sent pic, of.
Over here we are, and allways have been miles behind you in organisation of work and methods. Most joiners (only called carpenters around London ) do all kinds of work from roofs to finnishing. no framers or trim experts ( on new housing, there are specalists but nothing like a trim carpenter or framer) You get a door, you get a frame, you get your lock and hinges, and you fit the bloody lot on site, saw this post about magnet level sticking to hinges already on frame, in about 50 years someone over here will come up with that. will send lots of pics kos I know you are intersted, same as I try to learn progress off you guys.

gzajac

Summertime

Being a 54 year old carpenter, my body appreciates when I build temporary stairs. I figure it saves a lot of wear and tear n my guys, and it is a lot safer.

When I was a lot younger, I never built temporary stairs, but my age has made me a little wiser.

Years ago, while working in a subdivision with competing crews, one of the crews had an accident. It took the emergency people three hours to get that guy off the second floor, no temporary stairs. After that incident, as soon as the second floor is sheeted, the stairs go in.

Your stairs lok great to me.

Greg in Connecticut