Today we stopped by our house (being built by Myresjöhus) and checked out our stairs that have just been installed. But now that I'm looking at the pictures, I think it looks a bit odd; shouldn't the stairs "fill out" the entire width instead of having a gap against the wall on the left side?
As a consequence of this, we now also have double railings up there, which doesn't look like we intended at all.
Is there anyone who knows if it is common/standard to do it this way?
As a consequence of this, we now also have double railings up there, which doesn't look like we intended at all.
Is there anyone who knows if it is common/standard to do it this way?
I actually only have construction experience from building one staircase, and it's the one we ordered for the house we built ourselves with traditional methods. It didn't look like that, instead, the stringers were attached to the walls. I can't recall ever seeing this solution on a staircase, and I can't see any advantage with that construction. If you ask me, I would say that "someone" measured wrong; it shouldn't be like that, I think, and they had to solve it on-site when they discovered the staircase didn't fit the opening it was supposed to go in.
It looks like measurement errors in the width, it's difficult to widen the staircase itself but perhaps it could have been placed so that there was an equal gap at the top and bottom right, and then concealed with some type of trim, otherwise, it's just a matter of building a new staircase.
I had the same situation in a house once. The explanation then was that the wall next to the stairs was made of gypsum and therefore could not handle the stress of attaching the stairs to the wall. But that doesn't explain why there has to be such a large gap. So why it is as in the picture I can't explain, but like Jan and blev believe, I also think it smells like a measurement error.
The staircase is incorrectly made or wrongly delivered. The wall stringer in the third flight should follow the wall in the same way as in the first and second flights. The staircase you have received is meant to be installed in a house where there isn't a wall in the third flight. Therefore, a rising railing is installed there.
Looks like the switch for the stair lighting ended up on the wrong side (below), or perhaps the stairs should go the other way....
Maybe it's the picture, but I agree. Looks strange, like one of those pictures that looks different depending on what you focus your eyes on. :xStefan N said:
However, we also have such a gap between the stairs and the wall. Though it would be on the right side of the picture in the first post and only from the ground floor's ceiling upwards.
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Thank you for all the responses! Unfortunately, we haven't received any updates from Myresjöhus yet, but we're meeting the construction manager tomorrow at 8 am. It will be interesting to hear what explanation they have for this. The more we think about it, the stranger it seems.
Before we decided on the house, we went to look at a similar house, and they did NOT have such a staircase solution.
If the picture looks strange, it might be because we took the picture through a window pane.
It is not a light switch that is supposed to be under the staircase, so the stairs are not going the wrong way.
Attached is another picture where you can glimpse the upper part of the staircase (this picture is also taken through a window).
Before we decided on the house, we went to look at a similar house, and they did NOT have such a staircase solution.
If the picture looks strange, it might be because we took the picture through a window pane.
It is not a light switch that is supposed to be under the staircase, so the stairs are not going the wrong way.
Attached is another picture where you can glimpse the upper part of the staircase (this picture is also taken through a window).
