Stairs

northernedge

I'm a young architect, and obiviously naive.

I'm doing a house, its got a great stairwell, naturally :), but I'm stumped about how to make the handrail, balustrade look as good as I would like.

When I look to magazines, websites for inspiration I see glorious, flowing staircases that bear no resemblance to the BCA requirements.

How do you do it???

Anti-Narcissist

Could you please provide images of these "flowing" staircases.

cabbie

<p>andi...you lost for ideas...????</p>

Anti-Narcissist

Cabbie
Did you fall down such stairs?

cabbie

<p>haha...yep was dropped at birth, no actually pushed down a flight.....</p>
<p>andi, as the great purveyor of all things architecture....help the northerner out put some of your lovely flowing stair pics up....</p>
<p>remember there are no stairs in cabs.....only lifting platforms....</p>

hairdresser

andi does the ones you can slide down with a big post at the bottom?

northernedge

Well - I'm not going to scan in the mag shots, or find all of them on the web - but some of the stairs here (www.stairporn.org) give you an idea. No handrail and/ or balustrade.

I remember being a student and Timothy Hill showing pics of a house and quite openly stating it was illegal. (?)

northernedge

Here is an example of what I'm on about.

northernedge

Or even something more simple like this...

hairdresser

u answered your own question?

northernedge

No - not really cause I want to know how you manage to get the building surveyor to sign off on that.....

Is there a secret handshake I must learn??

Anti-Narcissist

Northernwedge

I think there's a loophole. The stairs may be classified as shelving.
Mock stairs.

hairdresser

^ like a building made of waiting rooms hey andi.
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b lucky 2 find a BS willing to bend.
there was a good bloke out in the east of marxico city worked 4 a chinamen.
but the x coppers running the BCC have put the cuffs on him.
cashed cheques, stamped thousands of building permits, neva looked at the drawings + never went on site.
think hes going 2 jail. - some receivers r in a world of pain & compliance torture.

cabbie

<p>there's no secrets, once told....</p>
<p>be careful of the smoke and mirrors....</p>
<p> </p>

cabbie

<p>hey andi......</p>
<p>where's your stairs....?????</p>

hairdresser

last gasp of geriatric baby boomers will b 2 ban stairs cabbie.
--leaving us sitting ducks for indalek shuls after the marseshuns are gone and the zombies go tame.

......
good thing there will always b a place for steps to fall down at the back of police stations.

Anti-Narcissist

For best "flowing" effect that complies, have glass 1m above floor with handrail

peter_j

The Fall Preventers will get to stairs soon enough. They are so damn easy to fall down.

5 ways this could go:

a) retrofit with chair lifts
b) sliding lateral rails at every 3 steps
c) maximum flight of 3 steps before 1.2m landings, down from 18
d) stair users to wear crampons during climb, with safety lanyard

hairdresser

^^
nice try @ stevies hole -andi.
can there b anything more confusing 2 zombies than coming 2 terms with decomposing as they dissolve into nothing?
stair treads that could hold up a kenworth = just 2 close gap to less than 125mm.
german sausage handrail - work of great zombie engineer in the shool of fatachetti.
u have been sneaking down to the hall of mirrors at Looney Park & standing in front of the fat one too long.



^
option (c) - $100 on it, within 5 years, luke will take me up.
ramps r the way 2 go? - am fitting out the salon with wheelchair accessible shaving seats.

Anti-Narcissist

^^its not steven's hole,
>g poole's house.

peter_j

Sliding off topic... I hadn't thought about seats... I find it quite easy to fall out of some of those workstation ones with wheels on them. As they have wheels I guess they are vehicles, and so should have seat belts. Or at least a velcro strip that latches onto your pants.

Anti-Narcissist

Peter,
Are you suggesting we ditch the BCA?

hairdresser

^^^
one waiting room is as good as another - more evidence of the spread of marxican arseimulation virus north.

^^ arm rest air bags?

^ ditch 4 wot? BCA is tidy bat @ the crease 4 rectification innings.
can't wait 4 cruelty of envelope pressure testing. couple of years is salon gossip.
zombies will keel over with those electrodes on their nuts?

Anti-Narcissist

floating

gentleman_dude

i have heard that some people build a balustrade, obtain the occupation permit, and then remove the balustrade. which is of course not legal.

gd

mark_melb

<p>Would it kill them the just read a book or newspaper?..........Sorry, just noticed. They are Apples so it must be okay! Call me a Baby Boomer, know all.</p>

hairdresser

^^^.....in the bowl.

zombie caryatid is polisher.

mark_melb

<p>caryatid?! I'd say he appears to be a gainfully employed Gen X. This can't be an Australian example unless he is a Melb Uni Grad. He does look WASPish.</p>
<p> </p>

hairdresser

ha
gainfully employed gen x = zombie caryatid?

^ wasp? u r thinking of the staff.

mark_melb

<p>Staff? Hmm yes. The students are the ones with the Apples for the teachers. Grad Dips are quicker that way.</p>

hairdresser

xactly. emmyou 4 last decade.

aged baby boomer and xgen mudwasp staff frozen into zombie caryatids while caught in the act of polishing see through ghost of coilers hanging in the bowl .....in a back room psuedo historians catalogue various shapes that shit comes in 2 make coffee table toilet rolls.

living dead students from somewhere else with backs turned stare into eurotrash cyberspace.
who wouldn't?

but y discriminate.
rimmers no better/worse? name says it all.

geee long started as a fly blown tomb - maggots and cobwebs. every year more dirt in a hole that never gets filled.

sidaknee is the place to b? least its a view of something.

bris/vegas fights a losing battle 2 keep the wetback outfall washback off the beaches.

wa is a sandpit that expels odours eastward.

sa has been a safe haven for nazis since WW2.