How to make your own curved stair treads.
Making curved stair treads.
The classic step for beginning a stairway.
That might sound like a lot to take in but it is just a step by.
Tim healey to create a perfectly smooth arc for the stair tread the author needed to calculate the radius of the rough tread.
I couldn t wait for the sheet rock work to be done because i really enjoy the second part of a stair project like this one.
Armed with the templates he builds the form to laminate the riser makes the curved tread and installs both riser and tread at the bottom of the existing stair framing.
In step 1 he measures out a chord c a straight line between two points on the arc.
In step 2 he measures the height h or the perpendicular distance from the center of the chord to the arc.
Our standard curved stair treads are 1 thick but if you have spiral steps or other custom requirements treads can be made up to 2 thickness.
Steps for making curved stairs.
He then uses that as a reference to make templates for both the riser form and curved tread.