stairs and glue

I personally think its a fair price. I have seen stairs and they were just a simple design and the client told me they paid 2500 pounds and the treads and risers are MDF the rest is was OAK and if they wanted it all oak they said it would be 3500 pounds. Another job was just a straight flight of oak stairs 7000 pounds.

So your stairs costing 4 155 pounds seems a fair price to me.  I dont really know never built stairs my self. I would like to learn and do one though!

JMB
 
JMB

I will do a work in progress on a set of stairs from start to finnish to give you some pointers.  Next 2 or 3 weeks.

Woodguy
 
Thank you very much that would be much appreciated. I think I got the gear to make stairs  or will have soon any way. Just I don't have the knowledge.

JMB
 
      Jmb,

             Those 1st prices you quoted were they for straight or 1/4 turn stairs?Thanks for your input and good luck with the stairmaking.By the way where's the CMS?
   Pictures man!

    Woodguy,

        Thanks for the compliments,coming from you it is praise indeed  [smile].I would also be very interested in your wip when you post it.Can you give any advice on pricing?

       Thanks Nigel.

   
 
Nigel said:
      Jmb,

             Those 1st prices you quoted were they for straight or 1/4 turn stairs?Thanks for your input and good luck with the stairmaking.By the way where's the CMS?
   Pictures man!

    Woodguy,

        Thanks for the compliments,coming from you it is praise indeed  [smile].I would also be very interested in your wip when you post it.Can you give any advice on pricing?

       Thanks Nigel.

   
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Sorry I think you miss understood me or I just didnt explain my self properly sorry.

No I was fitting the stairs. The stairs where made by some one els. Them prices where the prices it cost to client to buy from another company who made it for them. Which did not include fitting them and I assume your price does?!?!? Which is why I think its definitely a fair price even if it wasnt including fitting still just a fair price.

The straight cost client ?7000 (complete OAK) (not fitting)

The other stairs where Quarter Landing and was only half OAK for ?2500 and ?3500 (Full oak) but the client got the half oak (not fitting)

JMB

edited:  Yeah ill do the pictures this weekend probably Sunday. Sorry I have taken sooooooo long been busy. I havent even played with it yet  [crying]
 
So I just caught up on this thread; somehow it went under my radar.

Fantastic stairs and pictures from all of you.

I'm definitely looking forward to the WIP pictures for these.  Stairs are definitely classier on your side of the pond (well, compared to typical west coast -yawn- stairs).

Paul-Marcel
 
     
    Right thanks Jmb I misunderstood I thought you meant making and fitting.My price was complete job making and fitting so I think it's fair enough.

        Nigel.
 
PaulMarcel said:
So I just caught up on this thread; somehow it went under my radar.

Fantastic stairs and pictures from all of you.

I'm definitely looking forward to the WIP pictures for these.  Stairs are definitely classier on your side of the pond (well, compared to typical west coast -yawn- stairs).

Paul-Marcel
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  I always thought you guys did real fancy stuff over there?
 
Nigel, I will try and post a selection of my stair builds when I get home, only got the laptop and dongle here so uploading would take forever.

Rob.
 
Nigel said:
I always thought you guys did real fancy stuff over there?
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Well, in Arizona, at least, we have a lot of builder track homes; stairs are pretty boring and minimal.  California has a lot of custom homes and a vast range of styles since many were built last year and many more 50+ years ago.  There I would expect more fancy stairs, although none of my friends have them (they do have squeeky stairs though -grrr-).  Architectural styles on the east coast (at least around Washington D.C.) command more molding (moulding for you; I don't mean green growth  [embarassed]) and likely have stairs that reflect that.  The one house with stairs I was in near DC, though, was just 3 steps to get to a kitchen... not fancy  [tongue]

My house had carpeted stairs; likely the easiest and cheapest for the track-home builder.  A couple years ago, I tore the carpet out, modified the treads a bit, then refaced them with cork, walnut bullnoses, and lacewood risers.  The landing and entryway have a French knott walnut inlay.

To keep with the pictures, here's my amateur stair work:

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Meant to add that I still plan on making new handrails of Walnut and get Walnut newell posts.  When I started the remodeling, I was a little quick to demo many parts of the house then supplier backorders (looooong backorders) shuffled the work order so I decided to leave the handrails until after literally the dust settled.  That would be now if my garage wasn't 40C  [crying]
 
Great choice of material. Cork is clever.

I like the inlay and accents also.

Tom
 
Rob-GB said:
Nigel, I will try and post a selection of my stair builds when I get home, only got the laptop and dongle here so uploading would take forever.

Rob.
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  Thanks Rob,look forward to it.

    PaulMarcel.
 

              Thanks for posting those pics.It's interesting to see something completely different.I would never have thought of using cork.
           
     It's commom for stairs to be carpeted in the UK.In France it's always varnished wood.French people don't seem to like carpets at all.
 
Well you asked ;D so here are a small selection.

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Rob

Wow !  I don't have time to get into it just now but have lots of questions about that curved inside stringer.

Lovely work, Woodguy.
 
           

     Rob

         Nice work.The top one is fantastic!How long did it take?How did you do the newels?Did you take any pics of wip?Did you make and install on your own?

          Nigel.
 
Thank you guys.

Woodguy, I'd be happy to answer your questions, the best I can.

Nigel, the oak newell caps were made with just two jigs and an Elu177e router, design (hand drawn) is by the client a talented artist and interior designer, transfered to cad and tweaked to work by yours truly, time wise from start to finish about 8 weeks ( incl. outsourcing the liming and spraying).
Had the help of one apprentice who did most of the sanding, and he never once complained.  ;D
As I, mainly, sub-contract to firms who need my skills or knowledge, taking a complete WIP photo set is a bit difficult, I just grab a few when I can. [big grin]

Regards Rob.
 
I use only low VOC PL400 and shims/wedges. Regular PVA woodglues that fall into the "hard when dry" category can be a recipe for squeaky treads.
I'll dig up some picts.
 
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