andrewm
Established Member
Since recent discussions have revealed that there seem to be many people on this forum that work with wood professionally I thought I might pose this problem here.
I need to replace my stairs in order to increase the headroom a bit and to get something a bit more contemporary. This is not something that I care to do myself, and in any case my workshop is not big enough for that size project. But whom should I approach first? It?s probably too small a job for an architect and I worry that an interior designer would be more concerned with what colour to paint them. A builder could probably do the installation easily but I want something more than an off-the-shelf design, not least because of the restricted room.
So, is this something that a local joinery could undertake, both design and construction, or would they be prefer to be given a design and a set of plans and be told ?build this?? Structural loading calculations may be an issue but I don?t know.
Ideally I would like someone who can come up with a suitable design, not necessarily in wood, produce it and install it. Any ideas would be appreciated because getting started in this one seems to be the difficult bit.
Andrew
I need to replace my stairs in order to increase the headroom a bit and to get something a bit more contemporary. This is not something that I care to do myself, and in any case my workshop is not big enough for that size project. But whom should I approach first? It?s probably too small a job for an architect and I worry that an interior designer would be more concerned with what colour to paint them. A builder could probably do the installation easily but I want something more than an off-the-shelf design, not least because of the restricted room.
So, is this something that a local joinery could undertake, both design and construction, or would they be prefer to be given a design and a set of plans and be told ?build this?? Structural loading calculations may be an issue but I don?t know.
Ideally I would like someone who can come up with a suitable design, not necessarily in wood, produce it and install it. Any ideas would be appreciated because getting started in this one seems to be the difficult bit.
Andrew