Identifier: commonsensesta00hodg (find matches)
Title: Common-sense stair building and handrailing
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919
Subjects: Stair building Hand-railing
Publisher: Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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lessthan 9 inches wide and the riser should not exceed 8 PREFACE 8 inches in height. Seven inches rise and II inchestread make a very easy and good-looking stairway. Ifthe width of tread is increased the riser must be corre-spondingly reduced. The tread and riser togethershould not be over i8 inches or less than 17 inches.Of course there are occasions when this rule cannotbe employed, and the workman will be called upon toexercise his own judgment, but the closer he keeps tothis rule the better will be his stair so far as comfortand convenience are concerned. This little book contains over 120 illustrations—all ofa practical nature—and it is hoped the text describingthem is sufficiently clear, and that the student will haveno difficulty in understanding what is meant and inbeing able, after understanding them, to construct ahandrail over any flight of stairs that he may be calledupon to erect. This is the ardent wish of the writer. Fred T. Hodgson.January, 1903. TStaircase Newel ;
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STAIRCASE NEWEL AND RAIL Common-Sense Handrailing FIRST METHOD The building of stairs and properly making andplacing over them a graceful handrail and suitablebalusters and newel posts is one of the greatest achieve-ments of the joiners art and skill, yet it is an art that isthe least understood of any of the constructive processes,that the carpenter or joiner is called upon to accom-plish. In but very few of the plans made by anarchitect are the stairs properly laid down or dividedoff; indeed, most of the stairs as laid out and plannedby the architect, are impossible ones owing to the factthat the circumstances that govern the formation ofthe rail are either not understood, or not noticed bythe designor; and the expert handrailer often finds itdifficult to conform the stairs and rail to the plan.Generally, however, he gets so close to it that thecharacter of the design is seldom changed. The stairs are the great feature of a building, as theyare the first object that meets the visito

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