Building Stairs in 8 Hours

So, this is the quick and dirty way to build a staircase.
learn from my mistakes and pay atteintion to the angle! something between 30-35 degress is very comfortable. I will come back and build a handrail for saftey :)

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[DoItProjects]

You are just the best. So glad you included your first mistake and correction. I teach high school CAD course and we just covered this and the modeling tools you can use to make sure your stair meet the right requirements. I loved that you pulled out a textbook for help! I can’t wait to show this to my students.

[Bubinga]

I made quite a big mistake on one of my recent projects. It's nice to see that extremely talented people like yourself make them as well. Nice way to stick through it and good job on the entire project.

[driftlessjoinery]

Fail fast and fail cheap. Stuff happens. Coffee helps. That new space is amazing. Also, I took you up in your Skillshare offer a month or so ago. Ended up signing up for a year. A few hours of classes in video editing and my videos have drastically improved. Still a long way to go. Congrats on having the coolest studio on the Internet.

[ramivuorinen]

Great attitude Laura, that's the only right way to look at things. Failures happen and you always learn from them. Rock on!

[skullandspade]

Well done Laura, and thank you for showing your problem solving moments. Good coffee = reset button. Cheers.

[rosswaring]

Sharing your mistakes shows your integrity and helps us learn not to make the same ones....Good on you Laura! Smudo is awesome too!

[samulesonfizzil]

Great Job but if I could give you a small piece of advice it would be to ALWAYS GLUE AND SCREW your stair treds...this will guarantee that your stairs will not squeak over time...nails have a way of always causing squeaks and lumber as you know expands and contacts with varrying temperature....You did an amazing job and you made it look easy

[rarecreations]

Love your videos Laura, your honesty about mistakes, your great enjoyable videos, and finally a woman how can do all that, as Men can not admit mistakes in the natural way you did, makes you real special out there, keep it up Laura

[budbrady]

Love your projects and attitude! Stairs are my one word of caution is in framing the bird mouth at the top you have reduced the strength of the stringer by about half. Easy to remedy.... just add a support to the bottom of the stringer attached to the underside of the mezzanine. Keep up the wonderful work! Thanks

[didyougetem]

4ys later and this video still rocks. Very satisfying to watch. Great skills and great technic. Thank you.

[JohnMadeit]

Great your finally In the new workshop 😊 it got a hip art studio vibe about it. I would be tempted to make a slide to get down 😋

[edbet]

Love the fact that you learn from the mistakes with that attitude and that alone is the best advice teaching you can give!

[MaltandMake]

The new space looks amazing! Can't wait to see what you make in it!

More natural light. Eye friendly shop. Nice!

[thomasdoherty]

This is a good practical stair case for a work space! I’ve been a carpenter for 44 years so I’ve seen quite a few tricks over the years, some of that experience was in various parts of Germany. This started off in Oberstdorf back in 1979, good times. Good stuff Laura!

[pat_link_]

Super showing mistakes happen and you learnt from it

[MrJorgito]

Great job, I built staircase s very steep due to limited space In a lawyer's office a few years ago, it was my 1st time building stairs, I measured like 10 times, built them in my shop, sanded them nice and stained and finished them at my shop, then disassembled them and reassembled them on site, it took me about a week at my shop, and 1 weekend to install and finish trims and details...staircase still standing 15 years later... I love your videos, great job, I also work alone most of the time, its relaxing ...

[jeremyspecce]

Sometimes the failures and solutions are the best part. Great that you didn't pretend it never happened. Stairs are tricky.

[studioharpya]

Hi from Brasil. Laura proved to be very humble showing her mistake. She could edited it but no. Love her projects.

[ranseier]

The same book "Holztechnik Fachkunde" you can find in my book shelf too!

I bought it for 5 Euro - it was one time in use by an other owner, but the content may be still the same... ;-)

You are great, you have an emotional fire which we can see, follow and take it as a motivation!