Skip to main content
Stesso
Project

Measure Total Rise — Measure the Total Rise

Beginner4 hours

Part of project

How to Measure and Plan Treads for a Split-Level Staircase · Step 1 of 8

Helpful?

In this video

Begin by accurately measuring the total vertical rise that the staircase needs to cover. This measurement should be taken from the top of the finished lower floor to the top of the finished upper floor. If the finished flooring on the upper level is not yet installed, measure to the top of the subfloor and add the anticipated thickness of the finished flooring (e.g., 2 inches as mentioned in the video for future boards). This overall height is crucial for calculating consistent step dimensions.

8.6K views496
Transcript
Hide

stairs the first step is to measure from a finished surface to a finished surface so if you didn't have that flooring up there yet you would just measure from the finished surface to what the finished surface will be in the future those boards are 2 in thick so you would add 2 in to the joist hangers finish surface to finish surface in this case it's 85.5 in

Auto-generated transcript. May contain errors.