nod Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Just about to start fitting the stairs Lots of bits With me luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpd Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Deviated from my stair plan and spent the whole of yesterday plaining down oak whisky barrel lids...... am going to use them as treads ! It’s in a shed and only for fun so it’s only 600mm wide. Sometime I wonder why I like making my life so complicated. Good luck putting it all together ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC45 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 3 hours ago, nod said: Just about to start fitting the stairs Lots of bits With me luck At least youve started in good time! Pre 6am..... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplysimon Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 hi @nod straight forward job, i'm a bit surprised at the tenons to the newels. they should have a haunch in the middle as length of tenon shouldn't exceed 5x thickness to avoid weakening the timber with an oversized mortice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 ^^ but the mortice is into the newel posts, you are not going to tell me that will weaken them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Punter Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 First fix one day for 2 chippies. Would take me 2 weeks. Would take @Onoff 6 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oz07 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 2 hours ago, Simplysimon said: hi @nod straight forward job, i'm a bit surprised at the tenons to the newels. they should have a haunch in the middle as length of tenon shouldn't exceed 5x thickness to avoid weakening the timber with an oversized mortice. Never knew that. As in if tennon is 12mm thick then mortise not to be 60mm deep or are you on about length of mortice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplysimon Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 2 hours ago, ProDave said: ^^ but the mortice is into the newel posts, you are not going to tell me that will weaken them? it's not good practise for the mortice to be overly long without a haunch as it will weaken the timber 6 minutes ago, Oz07 said: Never knew that. As in if tennon is 12mm thick then mortise not to be 60mm deep or are you on about length of mortice? if the string is 30 x180mm wide there should be 60mm tenon 60mm haunch and 60mm tenon, therefore 1/3 @12mm thick tenon and correcty sized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 4 hours ago, Simplysimon said: hi @nod straight forward job, i'm a bit surprised at the tenons to the newels. they should have a haunch in the middle as length of tenon shouldn't exceed 5x thickness to avoid weakening the timber with an oversized mortice. You put a haunch on a window sash or door rail Stairs there’s no need it can’t drop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 12 hours ago, nod said: Just about to start fitting the stairs Lots of bits With me luck Tricky part out of the way 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Wow, you are a machine! ??? Looking great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplysimon Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 this is how i've always made them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted November 18, 2018 Author Share Posted November 18, 2018 On 10/11/2018 at 05:26, nod said: Just about to start fitting the stairs Lots of bits With me luck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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