It does look pretty cool
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I remember at my college we had stairs that had holes on the side (from the top down it covered the whole area probably with some overlap) and I used to have dreams/nightmares of having to do parkour to get through the place
In so much of this cookie-cutter "hip" newer housing, it's either this or a dangerously steep angle, sometimes even both at the same time.
Enshittified architects building enshittified spaces thinking only of how it looks, not how it's supposed to be lived in with safety and comfort from Day Two onward, the novelty wears off very quickly and you're stuck with an unnecessarily, potentially deadly space.
Definitely looks like something an architect would create...
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Add some dark wood planks or glass platters as steps and we're good.
Don't run down right after hopping out of the shower
don't take laundry or furniture up either
This is clearly a work in progress. The stair planks are meant to bolt onto those reinforcement beams, and likely a hand rail will appear for the last half of it.
I'm a handyman. This will not pass an inspection because it lacks the handrail necessary to be code compliant. That's before even getting into tread width and lack of trip resistant rise.
Don't need an inspection if you do it yourself
In most cases you'll need an inspection when you go to buy a home. Anytime you're changing a house you have to ask yourself "Will this hurt the ability to resell it later on?" This is going to end up on an inspection report and it's either going to have to be remedied or it's going to drop the value.
Which code though? There is no indication of where this is located. It might be perfectly fine.
Haven't you heard? We don't do regulations in the US anymore.
Codes are enforced at finalized at the local level. We've only abandoned stuff at the federal level, so far.
We did back when this meme was new, though...
My dog refuses to go up or down some types of stairs.
I get it now.
Linoleum. He won't go down to the landing to the basement. He'll do one, maybe 2 steps. So that's where I keep his food. Even if I forget to shut the door, he won't go down there and annihilate the bag.
Why, if that isn't my favorite NoFx song ever. Check it out, foooooo lol
This has been reposted so many times. It's obviously a work in progress, with the wood from the stairs missing. The floor doesn't look finished as well.
I used to live in a home with a spiral staircase very similar in construction to the stairs in the picture. Once I removed all the wood in order to clean, fix and re-finish the wood. With the wood removed it was in fact a death trap like shown in the picture. I replaced the wood with temporary OSB cut to the right size, which actually looked kinda cool.
with the wood from the stairs missing
For some reason, I imagine whoever designed this would use glass.
But agreed, it doesn't look complete.
Pretty sure that’s finished concrete. Nothings going on top of that other than rugs and furniture.
Not finished concrete at all, this floor is completely unfinished for a what looks to be a residential space.
You would have a polish, sheen, etc. to the concrete, this just looks like what normal subfloor would look like before you put down tile, hardwood, carpet, etc.
My basement floor looked exactly like this after we pulled up the carpet before we put down hardwood.
No way, it has splotches and a big unfinished ragged seam. The wall facade is also floating about an inch of the floor. This is most definitely not a finished floor.
Yep, that's just osb sub floor, not concrete at all.
I don't think is a WIP, the light fixtures are usually the last work they do to avoid broke it while doing other jobs and here there already functional.
The lights are embedded in the wall and the stairs are fixed to the wall. So they probably wanted to finish out the wall before they put in the stairs. The wood of the stairs would also need to be fitted to the wall exactly, so it makes some kind of sense to finish the wall first. I would have opted for little nooks for the stairs to fit in, but there were probably reasons that didn't make sense in that situation.
Do you think they're doing to drill the wall to fix the wood to it and to the metal part? I don't think the wood is going to be fixed to rhe metal part or it would have the holes to put it already.
With a custom made staircase? Why would the holes already be drilled? I'm not sure that blue color is the final color, or just a primer to prevent rust.
With the staircase I had it was simply 4 holes drilled in each stair and a short but fat screw driven through. This lead to bowing in the middle over time which made the stairs creak. So when I refurbished it, I drilled extra holes in each stair. As well as a thin strip of rubber over the top of the metal. Drilling in a relatively thin flat piece of steel like that is pretty easy. It wasn't particularly hard as it was designed to flex with use instead of being super hard and being subject to metal fatigue. The holes weren't that big, iirc they were 8mm.
I drilled the holes by hand and it was fine. Sure it's a pain in the butt because there were so many stairs. But that was kinda par for the course in a project like that, especially since every stair was unique with it not being a perfect circle. But for people who do projects like this for a living, they have one of those fancy magnetic base drills. Those make easy work of something like this.
The wood would most likely not be fixed to the wall and be designed with a small gap to allowing movement. Wood tends to move around a lot, so you want to have it free to move where possible. Just bolted to the metal would be just fine.
Why would they do the holes that fix the metal stairs to the floor and the wall and not the ones that are going to fix the wood?
It's also possible that, so as not to compromise the structure of the (already thin) metal by drilling holes in the risers, the stair treads themselves are attached to a carrier of some sort that's then fastened around the metal structure we can see.
I can't really see this staying intact very long as is. The metal uprights are already deforming slightly while just freestanding, so my suspicion is that there's an additional structure that spreads the load across the whole assembly and which has yet to be installed. Seriously, those lower steps would just sproing and dump you on the floor scooby-doo-trapped-staircase style the first time you tried to go up them.
WHY ARE THEY SO THIN
WHY ARE YOU SO CHONKY.
GOTTEM!
Isn't metal amazing? It's almost like 200lbs isn't much for a steel bar to hold up.
To leave your prints, your evidence when you fall down.
I actual quite like this. It looks totally impractical at best and dangerous at worst, but I think it looks pretty cool.
Tell me that you don't have children (or older parents) without telling me that ..
That said I like floating stairs slightly more than these but these are good with me.
I like that there's a "wall" as you get higher.
I hear that. That's going to be a hell of a Segway!
Upstairs is where they keep all their drug money and exploits. This is a passive way to deter their parents from exploring.
Stairs like this might deter the Boston Dynamics robo dogs the police will eventually start using in 10 years time.
Well not anymore now that you bring this up. Thanks dude. Now where am I supposed to hide everything from the robot dogs?
... And slice them off on the way down.
Made from the strongest aluminum