Build Decorative Straight Staircase Kits |Minimal Budget

byjhon -July 17, 2021

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Method Build Staircase Minimal Budget

Precision Pine's custom straight stair (and landing) kits and matching stairwell and balcony handrails make free standing, all-wood, decorative, open riser stair systems. Kits are produced in Southern Yellow Pine, Red Oak or other hardwoods. Each kit is custom designed to fit the customer's floor plan.

You can also order treads and risers to finish framed stairs.

Featuring simple design and clean lines, these stairs complement contemporary decors, act as a unique refinement to rustic interiors, or can be used to advantage wherever the warmth and character of smooth, natural wood is desired.

Stairs feature self-supporting wood stringers and landings. Treads are mortised into the stringers. The stairs can be installed in a single straight flight, or in shorter sections to turn at landings. You can order multiple stair kits fitted one above the other to access two or more stories. The stairs can connect with other types of stairs, including spiral stairs, or overhead "catwalks" to connect two balconies across a cathedral area.

Matching handrails are supplied for open sides of the stairs and for horizontal guardrails to close off stairwell openings, balcony edges, or any other portions of the upper floor that are open to areas of the floor below.

The kits are designed to meet your local building codes. If there are no codes enforced in your area Precision Pine strongly recommends for safety that the stairs meet the requirements of one of the national codes.

Kit specifications

Staircase Precision Pine

Precision Pine manufactures stringers and handrail posts from solid wood laminations. This is to ensure straightness, consistency, strength and stability. All parts are sanded to an 80-grit smoothness and where possible pre-drilled for fasteners. Wood buttons and plugs cover the fasteners. A set of custom instructions is included with each kit and factory technical support is readily available.

Stringers are shipped slightly longer than required, with ends marked for plumb and level cuts. Final cutting is done on site to assure a proper fit to the surrounding structure of the building..

Treads are pre-cut to the correct lengths. Landings are pre-assembled in the shop and taken apart for economical shipping. Handrail posts and handrails are shipped a few inches longer than required so they can be cut to fit on site. Balusters are pre-cut to standard lengths and pre-drilled. Standard stairs are 36" wide. Custom stairs can be wider.

Estimate Budget Straight Pricing

The following is a general guide to kit prices. Prices do not include packaging and shipping. For pick-ups at the factory and shipments inside Tennessee, 9-1/4% Knox County sales tax must be added.

Kits up to 13 treads, with a handrail system on ONE side: $1,515 pine; $2,795 oak.

staircase with one side

View top staircase one side

Kits up to 13 treads, with a handrail system on BOTH sides:

Handrail system on both

$1,845 pine
$3,380 oak

Three foot square landing kit without additional handrails (landing sides not against walls will require horizontal rails):

$445 pine; $805 oak
3' x 3' landing

Three foot by 6 foot landing kit without additional handrails (landing sides not against walls will require horizontal rails):

$740 pine; $1,360 oak
3' x 6' landing

rice per additional tread for kits that require more than 13 treads (this price includes everything needed to extend the staircase):

$165 pine
$295 oak

Catwalk kits up to 10 ft. length :

$1,265 pine
$2,340 oak

Horizontal Top Rails: Horizontal rails are priced by the lineal foot (LF) as measured along the floor edge:

$26 per LF pine
$45 per LF oak

Custom features: Straight stairs can be ordered with wider treads than for a code 36" wide stair. Stringers can also be mortised for vertical risers between the treads. For prices and details of these and other custom designs please call Precision Pine.

STRAIGHT STAIRCASE PHOTO GALLERY

#1. A custom designed handrail system for conventionally framed stairs in a traditional home:

Total custom price $1,450

#2. Fourteen-tread straight stair in pine, handrail on one side, with 10 feet of horizontal rail along basement stairwell below.

Thirteen-tread standard price ($1,425) + 1 additional tread ($150) + 10 feet horizontal rail ($240).

Total price: $1,815

#3. An open riser free standing straight stair.

12- tread stair with rails on both sides and 6 ft of horizontal rail.

Pine: $1809

Oak: $3,241

#4. Straight stairs with 3' x 3' landing and catwalk with horizontal handrails saves space in a small log cabin-all built from a custom kit.

Stair and landing kit:

Pine: $1,840
Oak: $3,300
Catwalk kit:
Pine: $1,190
Oak: $2,145

#5. Pine treads and risers dress conventionally framed stairs:

Total custom price: $655

Installation

The installer should be familiar with general carpentry techniques. The time required to build the stairs will vary. An experienced person with a helper should be able to assemble and install a 13-tread straight section of stair in six hours. It should take two hours more to install a handrail on one side. Stairs with landings will take a few more hours.

Handrails

Handrails along stairs and horizontal handrail systems may be ordered two ways:

1. with the top rail only and longer balusters that reach from the top rail to below the upper edge of the stringers or floor system

2. with shorter balusters ending at a lower rail just above the floor level or stringer.

Handrail systems may be intermixed. Often stairs are ordered without the lower rail for the stair, and with the lower rail for the horizontal rails along the top floor because this is required by some codes.

STRAIGHT STAIRCASE PRICING

	PINE	OAK
Kits up to 13 treads, with a handrail system on ONE side:	$1,515	$2,795
Kits up to 13 treads, with a handrail system on BOTH sides:	$1,845	$3,380
Price per additional tread for kits that require more than 13	$165	$295
Horizontal handrail system (closes off stairwells, along balcony edges) including all posts, rails, balusters and hardware:	$26	$45
3' x 3' landing (90 degree turn) without additional handrails:	$445	$805
3' x 6' landing (180 degree turn) without additional handrails	$740	$1360