Stair Building

 

 
 

Prefab Stairs

 

 

 

Stairs made in shops and then brought to the job are considered prefabricated stairs. Prefabricated stairs range in all shapes and sizes from regular straight runs at the stairs to complicated curved stairs that will be freestanding. Prefabricated curved stairs usually takes a while to build due to the difficulty involved in figuring the geometrical shapes and tangents of the stairs themselves. Most track framing stairs will be built on site using skilled carpenters. Every once in awhile a job will require straight prefabricated stairs to be built in the shop and transferred to the job for installation.

Some people argued that prefabricated stairs built in the shop and then transported to a job are either costly to build or extremely inexpensive. It's hard to say which is true Building the stairs on site requires the wood to be brought from the lumberyard to the home site and been constructed. Stairs built in the shop requires the lumber to be brought to the shop and then the stairway assembled and then brought out to the home site. The stairs built in the shop where you normally have all of your jigs and tools could have its benefits were as someone Building the stairs on site might forget the tool which will slow down the process requiring them to go get the tool which could be labor intensive.

 

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