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

andi...you lost for ideas...????

Anti-Narcissist

Cabbie
Did you fall down such stairs?

cabbie

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

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

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

cabbie

hey andi......
where's your stairs....?????

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

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.

hairdresser

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

zombie caryatid is polisher.

mark_melb

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.
 

hairdresser

ha
gainfully employed gen x = zombie caryatid?

^ wasp? u r thinking of the staff.

mark_melb

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

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.