Simply Stairs the Definitive Handbook for Stair Builders Reviews
Only Stairs - The Definitive Handbook for Stair Builders
Marking Milner
- Authentic and detailed step-by-step guidance on the pattern and construction of a wide range of timber staircases
- The only book that both describes and demonstrates every technique, skill and project
- Features the 'Ascent & Going Reckoner' – a colourful, easy-to-read chart which aids stair calculations
'...I am now very excited that the U.k. market place has at concluding got its own dedicated and more importantly upward-to-date and truly modern volume on one of my favourite subjects. ...you can feel safe in the noesis that yous are being led and taught by an skillful. ...this book volition become the bible on all things stairs for every pupil and proficient'. Extract from Foreword by Kevin Jones, Technical Manager, Richard Burbidge
£25.00
978-184995-149-4
245 × 190mm
288 pages
inc. 16pp color section profusely illustrated with more than 700 photographs and 180 drawings
Softback
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Simply Stairs is a 'how to' book which guides the reader through all aspects of the pattern and structure of a wide range of timber staircases, step-by-step. It provides anyone with a basic knowledge of woodwork with the know-how and confidence to build this most of import of building elements – from commencement to terminate! The author'due south philosophy of methodical working, checking and double-checking, fugitive pitfalls and mistakes, and reaping the rewards of producing potent, well-designed staircases which fit beautifully in their intended locations will be highly-seasoned to all readers. This is recounted in a relaxed and informal writing style which maintains the reader's interest.
Only Stairs features the author'south acclaimed 'Ascension & Going Calculator' – a unique, colourful, and like shooting fish in a barrel-to-read chart which aids stair calculations by eliminating the need for geometry and trigonometry.
The book will be indispensable for students of carpentry and joinery, and apprentices for whom stairs remain a vital part of the qualification at all levels, requiring both practical and theoretical knowledge of the subject to be demonstrated. Information technology will be an invaluable pedagogy handbook for lecturers and provide trades people and professionals with the means to expand their knowledge. Joinery manufacturing companies will detect it a useful adjutant memoire to assist them seek an additional revenue source and streamline their existing stair-building operations. Simply Stairs will also get the handbook of choice for those involved with DIY and cocky-build projects.
Quite just, at that place is nothing comparable in the market today.
OTHER BOOKS DESCRIBE THE SKILLS, But STAIRS DEMONSTRATES THEM.
Acknowledgements.
1. Permit'south Talk Stairs!
2. Staircase Calculations.
iii. Tools of the Trade.
4. Direct-flying Stairs.
v. L-Shaped Stairs with Quarter Landing.
6. L-Shaped Stairs with Kite and Winders.
7. Dogleg Stairs with Half-Turn Landing.
8. Circular Stairs.
ix. Alternating Tread Stairs.
x. Special Features.
11. Railings.
12. Repairing Stairs.
See the PDF above for detailed list of contents
This volition be essential and valuable reading for apprentices and students of carpentry and joinery, their lecturers, trades people, professionals, and anyone interested in woodwork.
'The bible on all things stairs
...This definitive handbook for stair builders is a must read for any aspiring joiner or keen woodworker and guides the reader through all aspects of stair pattern and structure in an authoritative manner. Unlike many others, Simply Stairs explains, demystifies and generally shows in the clearest mode possible, exactly how to go about planning, designing and making a diversity of staircases... ... is written by a man who really knows his work, and who has a dainty clear mode of explaining it... ...I tin't recommend this book highly enough, and I'd like to run across a copy of it on the library shelf of every technical college in the land'. The Woodworker
'He shows you lot how to make your own jig for routing out the strings...information technology is all about the setting out and that is well covered. Tips for fixing creaky staircases and loose newel posts is justification enough for buying this volume. The target audience has to be the carpentry apprentice who can dip into this book as a reference and keep it close by'. Apprentice Architect
'…this astonishing book…this is the all-time resource I have come up across…the only publication that not simply breaks each element downwards into manageable literary parts but gives photos with such clarity that you lot can follow and have an appointment with the subject area. …whether you are a tradesperson or just an avid woodworker this is the definitive book to read…' Craig Leach, Lecturer/Assessor/Teaching, Learning & Assessment Coach, East Riding College
'…this is the first book that deals solely with this topic in considerable depth. …there's everything y'all demand to know to build a pretty respectable staircase. Pinnacle stuff…' Good Woodworking
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