Ask the Builder: Erector Set Stairs in an Hour

Here are some tips to help you begin laying out safe, code-compliant stairs.
Ask the Builder: Erector Set Stairs in an Hour
Building safe stairs is hard unless you use prefabricated components that bolt together in minutes. These are made for both interior and exterior applications for pros and DIYers. Tim Carter/Tribune Content Agency
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You probably give little thought to the stairs you go up or down to reach different levels of your home, deck or patio. I’ll wager that if I handed you a measuring tape, a framing square, a pencil, and a level, you’d scratch your head and not know where to start the layout required to build a safe set of code-compliant stairs.

The good news is you can eliminate all that hassle by purchasing a product I just installed recently in my son’s garage. I was astonished at how easy it was to create a safe set of steps leading from the first floor of his home down to his concrete garage floor. The best part is that it brought back fond memories of the erector set toy I had as a child.

Tim Carter
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Tim Carter is the founder of AsktheBuilder.com. He's an amateur radio operator and enjoys sending Morse code sitting at an actual telegrapher's desk. Carter lives in central New Hampshire with his wife, Kathy, and their dog, Willow. Subscribe to his FREE newsletter at AsktheBuilder.com. He now does livestreaming video M-F at 4 PM Eastern Time at youtube.com/askthebuilder. (C)2022 Tim Carter. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.