Amazing staircases

[flying haggis]

i was sent these pics by a friend and thought you lot might also like them

5 & 6 are from top and bottom of the stairs

 

[doctor Bob]

don't think any meet UK regs, lovely stairs though.

 

[mailee]

How on earth are the first ones attached to the walls? :? I have seen the book case ones before. As Bob says none of them meet the regs though. :roll:

 

[DeanN]

I hope the house with the library stairs has a cleaner :shock: .

I'd say the floating ones are a torsion design, hung on rods fixed into the walls. Clever design.

 

[angelboy]

How on earth are the first ones attached to the walls? :? I have seen the book case ones before. As Bob says none of them meet the regs though. :roll:

I'm sure I've seen something like this before. They'll have steel rods fixed through the wall (probably bolted against steel plates) for the timber treads to slip over.

 

[angelboy]

I want the one with the slide for our house!

 

[angelboy]

They all look like accidents waiting to happen anyhow!

 

[goldeneyedmonkey]

They look great IMHO, I'd have them in my house any day of the week. There was a 'Grand Designs' with some similar ones to the first image, but they were made out of glass, very minimalist, right up my proverbial alley.

What doesn't meet regs on these? Or is there too much to list?

Cheers _Dan.

 

[MickCheese]

I would guess no handrail on the first one!

Mick

 

[angelboy]

No handrail on the first one, probably issues with tread depth on the triangular one and most definitely no big fluffy cushion at the bottom of the one with the slide!

 

[Karl]

I think (although am happy to be corrected) that if you can prove that this isn't the prime staircase in the house (ie there is another primary use staircase which meets the regs), then the regs don't apply to the secondary staircase.

But I may have just heard that somewhere and it's nonsense. :duno:

Cheers

Karl

 

[DTR]

I want the one with the slide for our house!

Agreed.

The one with the books is rather novel too 8)

 

[chippy1970]

http://www.stairporn.org/ :wink:

 

[angelboy]

I think (although am happy to be corrected) that if you can prove that this isn't the prime staircase in the house (ie there is another primary use staircase which meets the regs), then the regs don't apply to the secondary staircase.

But I may have just heard that somewhere and it's nonsense. :duno:

Cheers

Karl

I think that's nonsense to be honest.

A staircase is a staircase and the regs apply to all. Certain regs for domestic dwellings and then for commercial settings.

That's new dwellings or anything the regs fall under. If you wanted to rip out your stairs and replace then with a slide then this kind of alterations wouldn't come under the regs.

You'd have to use your common sense though, I wouldn't want my kids near an open flight..........or me for that matter.........drunk or not............I don't tend to turn the light on when I go for a pee at 3 in the morning.........

 

[SimonB]

How on earth are the first ones attached to the walls? :? I have seen the book case ones before. As Bob says none of them meet the regs though. :roll:

I'm sure I've seen something like this before. They'll have steel rods fixed through the wall (probably bolted against steel plates) for the timber treads to slip over.

Probably something like this, here the treads are welded to the steel beams running up the walls.

then bricked in like this

then the steelwork is plastered over to make them float. The wooden treads are slotted over the steel treads (in the picture the treads are temporary ply)

 

[bosshogg]

Hoots Mon...!

they stairs are braw,

ye should have seen the first yins a bult...

"You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest." - Rowan Atkinson. :|

 

[Benchwayze]

I followed the 'stairporn' link.
This is the first time I have seen a helical staircase described as such. Usually they are incorrectly classified as 'Spiral'..

http://www.stairporn.org/2011/09/13/cable-balustrade/

Oooo Am I ever the pedant...:roll: (It must be in my DNA!)

John 8)

 

[chippy1970]

I followed the 'stairporn' link.
John 8)

You liked it then

Good find eh ?

 

[Benchwayze]

I followed the 'stairporn' link.
John 8)

You liked it then

Good find eh ?

Well I'm into 'bridge-****' in truth Chippy. I can't make much in the way of bridges in my workshop! But I do like a good stare!


John