Making Curved Stair Treads
Part two of this article covers laminating skirt boards building custom pie shaped stair treads bending a curved stair rail cutting fitting and installing handrail balusters and final trim details.
Making curved stair treads. The first step for a stairway should be a starting step or a curved stair tread that has a volute on top of it. Armed with the templates he builds the form to laminate the riser makes the curved tread and installs both riser and tread at the bottom of the existing stair framing. In step 2 he measures the height h or the perpendicular distance from the center of the chord to the arc. I couldn t wait for the sheet rock work to be done because i really enjoy the second part of a stair project like this one.
How to make your own curved stair treads. He then uses that as a reference to make templates for both the riser form and curved tread. In step 1 he measures out a chord c a straight line between two points on the arc. Steps for making curved stairs.
Tim healey to create a perfectly smooth arc for the stair tread the author needed to calculate the radius of the rough tread. That might sound like a lot to take in but it is just a step by.