Winder Stairs

beechfield

Hi everyone, new to this posting lark.

Im looking for some advice, feedback, ideas etc.

We are planning to open up the ground floor of our house by moving the stairs from its current location by 90 deg to open up the space between the bright warm kitchen and the dark cold front room. The stairs consist of a short flight a half landing and a longer flight 180 deg to the first, its this longer flight that we want to shift. By getting rid of the half landing and making a winder we can fit to stairs into a smaller footprint making more space in the finished room. We were hoping to reuse as much of the stairs as possible.

Are there any building regulations issues with installing a winder, if we sell (at some point in the distant future :rolleyes:) might it put off a potential buyer.

Thanks everyone

BryanF

Google 'tgd k' this will lead you to the relevant regs.

Poor Uncle Tom

Technical Guidance Document K http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/DevelopmentandHousing/BuildingStandards/FileDownLoad,1651,en.pdf

Contains the following:

1.1.6 The varying tread width of a tapered step
can cause people to misjudge distances and can lead
to falls. For this reason, the use of tapered steps
should be avoided. If it is necessary to use them,
they should preferably be situated at the bottom of
the stairs.
Public stairs should not contain tapered steps.

In your case it is not necessary to use them as you already have a stairs without them.

So to answer your question it would be best not to use winders.

beechfield

Thanks for the feedback, more research required