To understand stairs, let’s talk about floors. Like many Americans, you might live in a home with a wood-floor system.

The stairs' stringers, located on the sides of the stairs ... A standard height is 7½ inches, but double-check with your building code to ensure that your selected height is code-compliant.

Amateur carpenters who have laid out the cuts in a stair stringer (the zig-zag structural support for the steps) know the queasy feeling that bubbles up at the prospect of this job. There’s the ...