stairs look mint. What did you pay? have seen them for 500ish before. don't worry about the plates and straps. when you board it you will be using foaming glue and it will fly over these interruptions. Nobody is housing these in to get a snooker table flat job. Are your osb joints on a joist? Not create any traps hopefully? Why didn't you just use egger p5 and be done with it? Is this OSB sacrificial and if so how much £?

Also if needing to slide any 50mm waste pipes in perpendicular to joists now is the ideal time

1 hour ago, Oz07 said:

stairs look mint. What did you pay? have seen them for 500ish before. don't worry about the plates and straps. when you board it you will be using foaming glue and it will fly over these interruptions. Nobody is housing these in to get a snooker table flat job. Are your osb joints on a joist? Not create any traps hopefully? Why didn't you just use egger p5 and be done with it? Is this OSB sacrificial and if so how much £?

I paid £320 for the stairs.  I’ve subsequently fitted the side rails for safety.

 

The OSB joints are on a flat, except one piece which I’ll address with some noggins.  I contemplated fitted the CaberDek, but given we are having floor to ceiling windows and the detailing would have been difficult to get right without the windows being fitted.

 

It’s about £500 for the sacrificial OSB

Stairs are lacking mid support. Way too long a going to be relying on nothing mid span, giving the duty it’ll suffer during the next phases.

7 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

Stairs are lacking mid support. Way too long a going to be relying on nothing mid span, giving the duty it’ll suffer during the next phases.

They don't have mid support. Yes, the angle is too shallow, but will be fine when they are put inside where the actual stairwell is going.

I think Nick is thinking health and safety.

If you are going to be having big guys carrying a load of concrete blocks and mortar up them day in day out you need to consider the risks.

Are you moving them inside before that work starts ?

Are they attached to the scaffold & did the scaffolders put them in for you ?

There are regs around scaffolding I believe, I think it is supposed to be checked and logged as ok on a very regular basis. Probably very often in breach, but if someone has an accident - it is your site and... they could come for you. If you need to modify or add to scaffolding I suspect you should be going back to the scaffold company.

One of our carpenters had a friend that fell through a rooflight and ended up in a wheelchair.

Inspection: construction platforms from which a person could fall 2 metres or more require inspection before use and at intervals no longer than 7 days, with further inspection after events liable to affect safety. A competent person must make the required report.

Tags: a tag system can communicate inspection status, but tags are not themselves a legal requirement and do not replace inspection reports.