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800mm Staircase

Hello,

I would appreciate your help.

I am constructing a staircase into a basement. It is a u shape. The opening at the top is 840mm for the first 2 steps after that the opening is 900mm. Can I have the first two step as 800mm and the remaining 9 steps 900mm?

Many Thanks Neil

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Neil.Armstrong
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Should be OK, no B regs requirement or guidance in AD re width of stair, and BS (can't remember number) says 600mm for single room, believe 700mm (could be 800mm) for more than one room. AD guidance is for consistant rise and going, not width, so can't think of any other controls which would prevent this.

regards

IanC

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River Tramp

(The only regulatory requirements relate to minimum width, headroom over, pitch and pitch / going ratio and ballustrading).

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John Rumm

Hi Gents,

Thanks for the reply. Just to confirm. My starecase will have 11 steps. The first two steps will be 800mm and the remaining 9 steps will be 900mm wide. Therefore the staircase width is not consistant. Is this acceptable?

Also could you suggest a place where I can buy 800mm and 900mm staircase comp> snipped-for-privacy@teel.co.uk wrote:

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Neil.Armstrong

Yup, wne you think about it, its quite common to have some change in width - typically where the newels are the tread width is less, and on winders it is more etc.

Hmmm, tad more tricky...

You can buy bog standard stair parts easy enough. Screwfix have a fair few:

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you start to need stuff that is bespoke to a particular installation (which I expect is what you are describing) it sounds like you have four options:

1) Build em yourself completely. Not that difficult. Here is one I did earlier:

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Get them built for you - there are plenty of joinery firms that do this sort of stuff. If you ony want a striaght run the price may not be too bad (400 - 500 at a guess)

3) Buy something off the shelf and then modify it

4) Buy something off the shelf and then modify the space it is going to fit in (i.e. using a 800mm stair all the way down)

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John Rumm

How is this particular gem going to be constructed?

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Chris Bacon

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