Staircase Anatomy: Understanding the Components of a Commercial Staircase
Sep 24 2024
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Jun 18 2025
Stair Landing Pans: An Important Component In Commercial Stairs
Stair landing pans are a fundamental component of commercial staircases, serving as the structural foundation for intermediate platforms or landings between stair flights. Designed to support both the weight of foot traffic and the concrete fill poured into them, these pans provide a stable and reliable surface that enhances the overall integrity of the staircase. Their role is crucial in maintaining the safety and durability of stair systems in multi-level buildings, ensuring that landings remain secure under heavy use over time. By reinforcing the transitional points in a staircase, stair landing pans help prevent structural failures and contribute significantly to building code compliance and long-term performance. .
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Sep 24 2024
Staircase Anatomy: Understanding the Components of a Commercial Staircase
A staircase is a vital architectural element, both functionally and aesthetically. Key components such as stair treads, risers, nosings, stringers, handrails, and landings ensure safety and design integrity. Proper dimensions and materials are crucial to prevent accidents and enhance usability, making it essential for builders and architects to understand the staircase. Stairpans and treads provide surface area for stepping, nosings improve grip, and risers define the height between steps. Each component plays an important role in ensuring the staircase meets both safety codes and design preferences..
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Mar 18 2024
How to Build Concrete Stairs: Stair Installation Tips & Tricks
Concrete stairs are a fundamental component of many commercial buildings and parking garages, offering a sturdy and durable means of travel between floors. Perhaps the most essential component of concrete stairs is the metal stairpan, into which concrete is poured to form the structure of the concrete stair steps. These stairpans serve as both a concrete form and also the framework for the stairs, providing support and reinforcement for the concrete as it cures and hardens..
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Jul 12 2023
Metal Pan Stair Details for Commercial Buildings and Industrial Stairways
With decades of experience and top of the line metal fabrication equipment, we make sure all metal pan stair details and requirements are accurate and meet your expectations. .
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Sep 30 2021
Custom Perforated Stairpans for a Home Remodeling Project
Stair Components & Systems provides custom perforated stairpans to increase safety and aesthetics. We recently provided stairpans for a home remodeling project in Canada. .
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