Simply Stairs is the definitive how to guide to lead the reader through all aspects of the design and construction of a wide range of timber staircases. The updated new edition provides anyone with a basic knowledge of woodwork with the know-how and confidence to build this most important of building elements. Now in full colour, it includes new material on additional material on glass balustrades and overhead routers. Simply Stairs features the authors acclaimed Rise & Going Calculator - a unique, colourful and easy-to-read chart which aids stair calculations by eliminating the need for geometry and trigonometry. This book is an indispensable for apprentices and students of carpentry and joinery. It is also an invaluable teaching handbook for lecturers and provides trades people with the means to expand their knowledge.
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'...I am now very excited that the UK market has at last got its own dedicated and more importantly up-to-date and truly modern book on one of my favourite subjects. ... this book will become the bible on all things stairs for every student and expert'. Extract from the Foreword by Kevin Jones, Technical Manager of Richard Burbidge
Acknowledgements.
1. Let's Talk Stairs!
2. Staircase Calculations.
3.
Tools of the Trade.
4. Straight-flight Stairs.
5. L-Shaped Stairs with
Quarter Landing.
6. L-Shaped Stairs with Kite and Winders.
7. Dogleg Stairs
with Half-Turn Landing.
8. Circular Stairs.
9. Alternating Tread Stairs.
10.
Special Features.
11. Railings.
12. Repairing Stairs.
Mark Milner has designed and built stairs at both home and abroad and, more recently, taught and assessed students and apprentices of carpentry and joinery at North Kent College, Gravesend, UK. He is a regular contributor to respected industry publications and an Assessment Development Consultant for The City & Guilds of London Institute.
