Being a construction contractor must be a great job – you never have to live with your mistakes, just everyone else does.
Superdave
My question is how in the world does the framing of that staircase support the minimum live and dead loads for a safe staircase? There is a reason stringers are cut, spaced and anchored in a certain mandated way. It gives the stairs structural support, especially when your 300 lbs brother-in-law is helping you move and you and he carry a 200 lbs washing machine up those stairs. The top section here anchors onto a partially floating landing. No way it passed a modern code inspection. Listing says it was built in 1935, so that type of arrangement would have been okay back then. I guess if it’s lasted this long it’s not going anywhere.
GoogleMaster
Likely when that cottage was built in the 1930s, that upstairs space was merely an attic, accessed by pull-down wooden stairs.
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Being a construction contractor must be a great job – you never have to live with your mistakes, just everyone else does.
My question is how in the world does the framing of that staircase support the minimum live and dead loads for a safe staircase? There is a reason stringers are cut, spaced and anchored in a certain mandated way. It gives the stairs structural support, especially when your 300 lbs brother-in-law is helping you move and you and he carry a 200 lbs washing machine up those stairs. The top section here anchors onto a partially floating landing. No way it passed a modern code inspection. Listing says it was built in 1935, so that type of arrangement would have been okay back then. I guess if it’s lasted this long it’s not going anywhere.
Likely when that cottage was built in the 1930s, that upstairs space was merely an attic, accessed by pull-down wooden stairs.