Cut Opening In Floor For Stairs

This video was uploaded from an android phone.

Cut opening in floor for stairs.

When we first moved into our house i had lots of possible projects swirling through my head. This open floor plan concept was much easier to diy than we originally imagined. Call this distance the floor thickness. Use a hand saw to cut through the floor joist.

Jthese steps for how to open up an interior staircase will give you a rough tutorial for how to open up walls. The thought of cutting through your floor might seem scary but installing any new staircase whether rigid stairs from one floor to another or pull down stairs leading to an attic requires an opening in the floor. Its length depends on how much headroom you need. You can cut openings in the faces of these elements or you can select the entire element to make a vertical cut.

Using a meter stick or a carpenter s ruler measure the dimension of the entryway of your stairs. Click by face or vertical. Measure the distance from the floor where the base of the stairs will be to the ceiling. Cut a small hole through the ceiling within the area you know will be removed for the stairs.

Use the marker or the pencil to trace the points where you will be cutting the floor joist. Step 3 use a hand saw or electric saw to cut through the floor joist. Height of first step e the the actual finished height of the first step is the same as the typical step height f but when you cut the stair stringer the first step height e is always the. Open risers with openings more then 30 inches 762 mm vertical to the floor should not permit the passage of a 4 inch diameter 102 mm sphere.