J.B. Welding
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Had the chance this year to make a few staircases, which are some of my favourite things to make, so a good year so far.
The first is a domestic stair to a floating landing. Contrary to my previous jobs there were to be no fancy twiddly bits or minute details to muse over in years to come..there was to be as little as possible apart from some lovely borders Oak on show.
This was the design we were going for. Easily drawn=easily made (architectural rule of thumb)
I sourced the kiln dried timber for the steps, ordered up the steel and went to work.
Sorry for the shaky photo, but to be fair it matched the wood
All machined up and epoxied, the timber started to show its beauty
Not to mess around, but the computer simulation and hand calcs both agreed that 150x75mm channel would deflect about 1.6mm at the tip of the step when jumped on by an average rugby player, but there was more room inside the tread boxes, so I went for 180x75mm channel and put a web brace in the middle, as well as an end plate.
Glad I did as it did all look a bit scary once assembled on site.
Amazing how bent and twisted channel is once you start working to +/- 0.5mm, but all the tips of the steps were puurfectly inline and level.
Electrician had made life interesting but all was put right before the plasterboard went on
So with the steelwork fitted just a case of fixing the oak treads and getting things lined up for the glass
So this is where all the fiddly detail was hiding
Still, all went pretty smooth considering.
I routed a channel under a few of the treads into which LED strips were installed, simply (!) fitted the laminated glass and hey presto another satisfied customer.
Like I said not my usual style, but it's turned out to be one of my favourites.
Next-Commercial, non-combustible stairs
The first is a domestic stair to a floating landing. Contrary to my previous jobs there were to be no fancy twiddly bits or minute details to muse over in years to come..there was to be as little as possible apart from some lovely borders Oak on show.
This was the design we were going for. Easily drawn=easily made (architectural rule of thumb)
I sourced the kiln dried timber for the steps, ordered up the steel and went to work.
Sorry for the shaky photo, but to be fair it matched the wood
All machined up and epoxied, the timber started to show its beauty
Not to mess around, but the computer simulation and hand calcs both agreed that 150x75mm channel would deflect about 1.6mm at the tip of the step when jumped on by an average rugby player, but there was more room inside the tread boxes, so I went for 180x75mm channel and put a web brace in the middle, as well as an end plate.
Glad I did as it did all look a bit scary once assembled on site.
Amazing how bent and twisted channel is once you start working to +/- 0.5mm, but all the tips of the steps were puurfectly inline and level.
Electrician had made life interesting but all was put right before the plasterboard went on
So with the steelwork fitted just a case of fixing the oak treads and getting things lined up for the glass
So this is where all the fiddly detail was hiding
Still, all went pretty smooth considering.
I routed a channel under a few of the treads into which LED strips were installed, simply (!) fitted the laminated glass and hey presto another satisfied customer.
Like I said not my usual style, but it's turned out to be one of my favourites.
Next-Commercial, non-combustible stairs