Space saving stairs

WeAreGhosts

any recommendations for these?

i have googled and am looking at about £800.

all the 'space saving' ones tend to be the alternating tread ones which tbh i am not too keen on. why can't there be a full tread but at a reduced width? or am i missing something?

SailorSam

I've never heard of space saving stairs, some of those pictures look odd.
How about a spiral staircase ?

WeAreGhosts

spiral staircases are good, but it is a pain getting furniture up them

Ruski

Alternate because you can't have a narrow 'step', against building regs.


Once you get used to them the spacesavers are fine, and a lot safer then 'narrow' steps (the 'going' to be technical)


HTH


Russ

MX5huggy

From memory there is no regulation on the width of stairs they just become impractical below 800mm. Alternate tread stairs result in steeper stairs so taking up less floor space, you could get a set of narrow standard stairs made.

cyclonebri1

MX5huggy wrote: »

From memory there is no regulation on the width of stairs they just become impractical below 800mm. Alternate tread stairs result in steeper stairs so taking up less floor space, you could get a set of narrow standard stairs made.

I'm certain that there is, I squeezed mine in whilst talking the BC over it.

Now, if you have ever tried space saver stairs you would know that they are awful.
They should be considered as a last resort, try them when you come home drunk and you would be a gonner, brilliant comedy sketch somewhere where the drunk starts off on the wrong foot:rotfl::rotfl:

MX5huggy

You've made me go and read it now. There is no width requirement for stairs between floors in a dwelling. http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_AD_K_2013.pdf

Gloomendoom

We have paddle stairs going down in to the cellar which we use as an extension of the kitchen. We are up and down them all the time and have been for 15 years. They really aren't a problem. Not for us, anyway.

cyclonebri1

MX5huggy wrote: »

You've made me go and read it now. There is no width requirement for stairs between floors in a dwelling. http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_AD_K_2013.pdf

Link doesn't work for me so I'll take your word for it, but my last involvement was about 17 years ago and there was then.

I'm sat under my open stairs as I type this and measuring mine are 780mm, this was checked by BC back then as I can only assume the min was 800mm. He let me of as failing them for 20mm difference didn't make any sense to either of us.

Waterlily24

There was a regulation when we had our extension done (about 3/4 years ago). We were allowed to put sliightly narrower stairs in but it was a fraction of an inch for each stair

paddyrg

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8393/2077370.pdf - building regs from the source :-)