| Steel stairs are with out a doubt
the strongest stairs with their greatest asset being that they take a
while to burn or melt in a fire. If there is a fire these stairs will
hold up the best. Steel will out last any other material if maintained
properly over time.
Steel stairs are common in large building built from steel. These
buildings would include your large skyscrapers and multi level building.
Some steel stairs have cement treads attached to them
or steel treads with cement poured in a steel step forming a nice tread to
walk on. The combination of the steel and concrete make for a very
effective set of stairs in a fire.
 |
Steel stairs also have great benefits for structural strength in
different forms of fabrication. Steel stairs can be made longer and
stronger than wood stairs therefore the distance between the two floors
can be farther apart.
The stairway you're looking at on your left,
is a new set of stairs, with two steel stringers and concrete
stair tread. Attached to the concrete stair treads, is a metal
hand rail or guard rail. It's hard to tell unless we measure it.
The stairway is a good example of a guard rail without a
gripable handrail (or vice versa), that is between 34 and 38
inches from the stair nosing. This would be a vertical
measurement, or up and down from the tip of the stair nosing, to
the top of the handrail. |
Steel Handrail End
8 Step Steel Stairs
Steel Handrail Turn
Underside of
Steel Stairs
Down View of
Steel Stairs
Formed Steel Stairs |
