I now have a nice set of stairs in my shop. Tony came over Friday and we got started on the project. Stairs are hard to plan when you’ve never built them before. And more than once we thought we had a plan and then decided to scrap it (thanks to our phone-a-carpenter Lars). But we finally got going and with some help/hindrance from Andy and Kevin, were able to figure out the correct angles for the stringers. Actually, I owe Andy a bit of an apology. For some reason I had it in my head that he wasn’t very strong at math, probably just part of the “spacey-artist” stereotype. But his calculations and plans were spot-on for the numbers that we needed to cut the stringers. So my apologies and thanks to him. Although he spilled wine all over everything my desk this weekend and failed to mention it to me. So I’m not currently feeling too bad about the math thing.

In any case, with cutting the stringers out of the way, everything went together fairly quickly. We did a quick frame-up on the ground, then Andy and I lifted the stringers and Tony attached them to the wall and platform. Then Kev helped me cut the stair treads, while Tony screwed them into place. And that was that. A huge thank you to everyone who helped, but particularly Tony. Yeah buddy, only three (or was it four) trips to Lowes for one project!