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Building wooden staircase to mezzanine floor

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

The mezzanine floor is 196cm from the ground floor.  The stair riser height was calculated using the Metric Staircase Calculator and the layout of the stairs designed by Jaques on squared paper and Archicad 13.

mezzanine floor

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

We used the original spacings and holes from the original oak joists, we had to enlarge them vertically to accomodate the new joists. Originally the barn had a ‘loft’ at the front, we removed all the original rotten joists, and replaced with new timber. Whilst the chipboard might have had some water resistant properties, unfortunaley [...]