Stairs / stairway renovation or construction for multi-housing apartments or condos is attented to by various types of products. One such product that seems to be superior in all respects is a fiberglass based stair step, stair tread replacement that seems to out-distance many others, along with current conventional methods.
The component and method of the product, while primarily directed to use in conjunction with replacing old exterior stairs, or stairways, also finds application to the practice of building new stairs. In either case, the product has the advantage of being able to either restore an old stairway or build a new one by use of relatively light weight, easily handled components that can be put together at the job site to build a stairway without the need for having to pour concrete to form steps, having to weld parts together, or having to use a crane to assist in building the stairs from a heavy assembly or heavy components as in many prior art practives. Furthermore, the product provides for quick assembly, which is highly useful when constructing in a residential setting.
A typical problem faced in constructing new stairways on existing stringers is the fact that the spacing between the stringers will vary due to settling, misaligned building components, warping, and the like. The easily cut stair component of this particular product method can be cut to length at the site and made to accommodate and adjust to different stringer spacings.
Current conventional methods, as far as is presently known, have not provided a component and method for restoring a stairway that is specifically adapted to make use of existing stringers, make use of either new or existing stair supports, and accommodate to varying space between the stringers.
With the above in mind, the principle objects of the product known as Replacementsteps is to provide a relatively lightweight, strong, self-supporting, ready-to-use, cut to length stair component, that can be quickly installed on existing stringers having sets of either newly-installed or previouly-installed stair supports on the interior faces thereof, and engaged with portions of other components of similar construction to form a complete stairway, and in a manner that accommodates to different spacing between existing stringers, that requires no welding at the job site to complete construction of the component or requires the addition of concrete to form a step on the component.
