Florcraft said:
Sorry, none of the above
Hmmm...not sure how to describe this now
OK, it's 4 x 8, with 8 feet against the house
Pretty small right?
If I am looking at the house, the left side of the deck has a top step that runs the whole length of the left 4 foot side, comes around to the front, and goes for 4 feet along the left side of the 8 foot front
So it runs along a 4 x 4 section of the deck
The next lower step also runs along the entire left side, comes around to the front, and goes for the four feet of deck
The third step from the top does the same thing, etc....for six steps
These steps meet at the left corner (away from the house) at a 45* angle
As we go down the steps, the actual length of the boards I cut at a 45 increases
(If they didn't meet at a 45 and wrap around the deck, they would stay the same)
Now here's the thing I can't figure
Almost all the stringers will have the same dimensions
Theoretically I could go to Big Orange and get pre cut stringers and be done with it
But, there's that one stringer, the 45* one
If I use the pre cut stringer, it won't work
The steps are cut at a 45* angle and their width at the cut is greater than the 90* cut on the other ends
The pre-cut stringer is too small in the step area
It also looks bad, the tread is not flush with the riser part of the stringer
There's a little triangle in there
How do I figure out how to cut that 45* stringer so the tread fits and it looks good?