Simple stairs have just two components. The flat board that your foot steps on is called a tread. The treads connect to side stringers and sometimes to one that is in the middle of the stairs. The ...

Single-stair building code reforms are spreading as states and cities seek more small multifamily housing while maintaining ...

BOWERSTON, OHIO – Building industry professionals eager to upgrade the look of an interior stairway can now employ Reversible Stair Risers from L. J. Smith Stair Systems. The new risers feature a ...

SILT – Ed Puckett says building boats is a lot like building spiral staircases. “Both of them have curves,” said Puckett, owner of Mountain Stair and Trim Manufacturing, based in a 4,000-square-foot ...

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - Most of the projects that come through Clyde Martin's Top Tread Stairways business are priced between $500 and $2,000. Then came the O'Brien family, who commissioned Martin to ...

Firefighters and builders are at odds over a new-to-Rhode Island corner of the housing-affordability debate: stairs. Citing the spiraling cost of construction, a group of developers and urbanists ...

Some stairs simply run up to the next level in a straight line. It’s a pretty simple design and usually quite easy to ascend and descend. That is even true for transporting a victim in a Stokes basket ...

You may be like most folks. I’m guessing you give very little thought to the stairs you go up and down on a regular basis.