A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011)

Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by fanf2 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @03:18PM (#17790092)

I looked at our stairs at home and they have 13 steps with a rise of what looks like a bit less than 20cm - hard to measure accurately with the carpet. That gives a total height of 2.5m which is nice and round.

A bit of searching around and I find the building regulations permit a rise per step between 15cm and 22cm. And I find a site which says “A typical rise is 2,600mm, which divides easily into 13 200mm risers, or steps”

I roughly measured the overall height of 8 steps and it was closer to 160cm than 152cm so looks like they are the typical dimensions.

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Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by VBprogrammer on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:51PM (#17790603)

I'd wager that when that standard was established the divisivility of those metric measurements would not have been a consideration. Most likely it's also close to some even fraction of feet and inches.

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Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by fanf2 on Sunday August 19, 2018 @05:56AM (#17793542)

This house dates from about 1990 so I think it is built to modern dimensions, but I know nothing about this so I am mostly guessing... the 19cm ish riser also matches an 8’ floor-to-floor height, so it’s a bit hard to tell from just the stairs :-)

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Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by lostlogin on Saturday August 18, 2018 @05:52PM (#17790993)

2.5m is 8 foot 2.4 inches according to Google (decimals in measurement that are in inches is a thing? I’m metric so don’t know). The standard ceiling distance between floors must be 8 feet in the U.K..

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Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by ChristianGeek on Saturday August 18, 2018 @06:11PM (#17791089)

The joists and surfaces between floors in a home are 12-14 inches thick in total, bringing the distance between the floor and ceiling in each level closer to 7 feet.

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Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by lostlogin on Sunday August 19, 2018 @08:22PM (#17796975)

I’ve phrased that badly. Obviously the stairs go floor to floor... wall height would obviously be floor to floor minus joists, flooring, ceiling material.

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Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by NickNameNick on Saturday August 18, 2018 @08:40PM (#17791772)

The joists go on top of the studs, not between them. 'standard' ceiling height is 2.4m.

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