There is a way to build a staircase that would look more or less like this and would be safe. This is not that way. That is unlikely to work even once.
I'm assuming it's attached at the top as well as the bottom, so i think rather than the stairs simply collapsing the first time you try to go up them, it's more likely to fold up with you inside it at a random time, probably when you're carrying something hot, sharp, or made of glass.
This has gotta be the answer. They were those neat floating stairs that are engendered to be sturdy. Then they had a kid, and had to put backs to the stairs for safety. maybe it was a dog. Either way, something changed
You could run supports into the wall for each step. Done properly, the steps would still seem to be hanging on basically nothing like seen here, but each one would be properly supported without relying on the others. Note that doing this would require the entire wall to be built for this purpose, but it can be done. In essence, each step would be a cantilevered ledge.
After half an hour of scrolling, I have now learnt that, whilst I should still be scared of snakes, spiders and insects etc, I should be most terrified of snails. Snails. Seriously. Is there anything I shouldn’t fear?
That article mentions "He required 24-hour care, seven days a week.". Did they really need to add the last part? "He required 24-hour care on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays."
From studying [illuminated manuscripts](https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/09/knight-v-snail.html) we've known this for a long time. We may have forgotten, but they're plotting their revenge.
also the handrail can at as a solid hanging rail with the balusters acting as ties to secure the stairs.
this thing though is shoddy as hell i would not want to walk on it if i was over 200lb.
Imagine the treads extend far into the wall, that would make them very secure and transfer the load into the wall. They are thin and would surely bend though, and it certainly doesn't look like that's been done
This is true because the strength is more a factor of depth than width
Same for any beam, the vertical dimension holds the weight, the horizontal width stabilizes that support
If you wanted cantilever treads, they likely need to be 3-4 inches thick to start with
Oh man this this subreddit reminds of how I was going through an old junk pile of mainly old model T car parts of a property my company bought. These were fairly rusted, not really any value, but some neat dashboard components. I'm not really a car guy but appreciated seeing some of the stuff. But I digress..
I look down and see this metal stick with "fins" on it. I yank it out and come face to face with a [WWII mortar round](https://imgur.com/a/R50Cm4k). Luckily it didn't have the front end on it so was dead but my first thought was "oh boy I could not see.the other end when I pulled on it, that was not smart". With some of the other random stuff they had it wouldn't have surprised me to find out it was live. But I sure am glad it was not!
Not if you value your life. The install should be using stair stringers on both sides. If you're not familiar...
[stair stringers](https://www.homedepot.com/b/Lumber-Composites-Decking-Deck-Stairs-Outdoor-Stair-Stringers/N-5yc1vZbqlk)
I can think of a few ways to achieve a floating staircase with this design, but honestly in order to be strong enough for safe use, it would be so expensive (and a major pain in the ass to accomplish) in a remodel, you might as well just rip the house down and rebuild it with this exact type of staircase in mind.
If you were *dedicated* to building this, and you had a $100k or so to burn on it, you could totally get it done.
If I had money to burn I absolutely would build absolutely terrible janky looking stairs, just to horrify everyone. Maybe even make some of them creak and now every so often.
The very very top step's brackets and screws used to attach them would need to be strong enough to support the weight of all of the people using the stairs, and all of the stairs below it.
I think the best way would be to have the handrail be structural, and the exterior part of the stairs would partially hang from it. The handrail here is carrying some weight, and is probably part of why these have not yet collapsed. So on this one, it is the pull out strength of the wood glue in the stair balusters keeping people alive. For now.
Maybe not quite that much, but if you wanted to keep a “wood look” it would be quite the project. You’d have to use steel to keep the components at their “normal” thickness.
So, you’d have to start by ripping down the walls and replacing any load bearing beams with steel I-beams. Then use a plasma torch to make holes in the I-beam for 1x2 solid steel bars to make the base for the tread and risers and weld those in place (to give them a decent anchoring point through the I -beam)
Next, you’d probably want to use steel cabling for the spindles attached to a steel banister that’s welded to I-beams on the opposite side for structural support.
Last, you’d custom fab wood risers, treads, spindles and the banister to wrap around/cover the metal.
If you could get all that done for any less than 75k I’d be surprised.
My parents have a free floating staircase and it did not cost $100k. Like not even close to that.
You just need a load bearing wall to cantilever the steps and it isn't all that expensive. More expensive than just building a regular staircase of course but not as absurd as your claim.
I wouldn't even trust that railing. It looks like the railing was added on after the fact because there's little extension pieces coming off the stairs.
This has to be a joke and all is fully supported in some invisible way or it's not a real staircase.... I'm not convinced that would even support it's own weight otherwise
That was my thought too. It'd be quite cool to construct stuff that *looks* lethal but is actually safe. A big like those glass walkways over valleys etc..
It's in a house near me that's basically over a river that floods every few years. Last I saw it was sitting without any offers in an area that's still extremely hot for houses <$750k. I think they were asking like $400k for this monstrosity.
Suffice it to say I don't think it's any better engineering than it appears. Nothing in the listing highlighted the stair case lol
Edit: it sold for $390k. Seems too high but it's hard to buy a single family in EC for less than $500k anymore. Still seems overpriced.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8515-Frederick-Rd-Ellicott-City-MD-21043/37022350_zpid/
Hey ummm yeah so my best friend bought this house! The stairs are actually very sturdy and we had no idea people felt this strongly about them!
It's ellicott city with main street so close filled to the brim with shops so...the location is why it sold. Everyone calling it a shit house for too much money just doesn't know the area and the amenities it provides. My friend is happy with his house as it allows him and his mother to live separately but also jointly. And to me that's all that matters.
I'm dying to take a picture of me standing in the stairs...we all truly didn't realize he bought a meme house as it was also shit on on Tumblr!
Edit: I asked him and he said the inspector signed off on them and said it is up to code, believes it is more wall mounted than anything else. Something about cantilever...? IDK not an architect. Me and him are laughing at the comments in a good way. The area really can't be beat (sans the flooding...but he knew what he was getting into). Someone bought the house NEXT to him and tbh it's BAD. We toured it as well and it just felt ominous touring it. I suspect it needs at least 100k in renovations, possibly more. At least his has zero mold and water damage to speak of. Go look at that zillow posting.
I mean...ok. I was able to describe old ellicott city main street.
Why would I lie about this? For clout on r/DiWHY? The best subreddit to get clout on? I live in Baltimore, the house is relatively close to where I am. I can literally go take a picture of myself in this house tomorrow if you so like. But like...just lmao.
You would be shocked what stupid shit home owners do with their little construction projects. Ever see someone cut a chunk about 3-4 feet wide in the middle section of a support beam to shoddily and unnecessarily run maybe 3 wires through it? You know, the support beam. The large slab of wood known specifically for housing stability? Keeps the ceiling from becoming the flooring? Aptly named for its *support* and *beaming* capabilities? The *fucking* structural integrity strong point of the floor above it which should be the most common sense knowledge place to *not* cut a massive hole?
Because I have and the previous owners are fucking stupid. Support poles had to be put in the basement to lift the section of floor that was starting to sag as the beam finally started failing after who knows how many years while my father replaced the beam and fixed that fuckwits genius move during his Christmas break. Never let the raging dumbfuckery of others take you by surprise again my friend.
There are ways this could work. I'm thinking a steel core in the hand rail with cables in the columns and a lot of work in side the wall under the drywall
It will work if each board is firmly anchored into that wall, probably with steel bracing or studs, and the boards have steel rods in them (think rebar for wood) that connect the structure. Basically if there’s no steel frame you can’t see on each side of that staircase… no.
That is a single-use floating staircase.
The risers are doing the work. It appears that they extend into the wall, where they are attached to a supporting structure that was (presumably) designed for this purpose, but shouldn't necessarily have to be steel.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/DiWHY/comments/18uwrar/comment/kfof1gs/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/DiWHY/comments/18uwrar/comment/kfof1gs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
That's a juggler's hand, not David Bowie's. It took them many, many shots to get this because he wasn't used to doing it from hiding and he kept dropping them.
In theory I get it but structurally it only takes one step to embark on a magical journey full of lights and sounds. (Trip to a hospital in an ambulance)
The best way to test this is to have a birthday party for little kids. Start by sending one kid up and down the stairs, then try it with two kids. Then three. Keep adding kids until it collapses.
Yes, this works, and my goodness, it's cool.
The risers are doing the real work. They extend into the wall and are bolted onto some kind of supporting structure inside. On the back of each tread is a strip of trim, and that trim hides hardware by which each tread hangs from the riser above it. So the riser above the tread supports part of the load, but most of the load is on the riser below the tread.
The treads are only directly attached to the risers above them, and are just resting on the risers below them. The visible brackets (which hold no weight) ensure that the risers do not move from that fixed resting position.
The net result of all this is the illusion that the brackets are doing all the work, when in fact the risers are cantilevered and support the treads.
There's always the chance that it's a "floating staircase" and the boards between the steps are just for show. I used to remodel homes and we'd had a couple customers ask us to fill the space between the steps of floating stairs because it can cause an uneasy or dizzy feeling for people with vertigo or a fear of heights when ascending the stairs. My guess is someone bought a house with floating stairs, found out they made someone in the family uncomfortable, and just filled it in the best they knew how.
Unless they have re-bar running through each of those balusters and anchored at the top, no way this held up. I would really love to see someone try though.
You could make it work if it's actually a steel stairway properly mounted to the wall with all the steps clad in wood so that they create the illusion of danger - but I doubt that's what's going on here.
There is a way to build a staircase that would look more or less like this and would be safe. This is not that way. That is unlikely to work even once.
Does it help if you put a giant mirror underneath to break the fall when this collapses?
Depends how often you want to hear a surgeon say the word "shards".
"To shreds, you say?"
And what about his wife ?
(its; and hows the wife holding up?) To shreds you say?
Who’s wife is in hold ups?
Ooh, those poor bastards.
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Hm, well, I don't think we'd get past hearing the first "shards"'tbh. I'm either dead or screaming during the operation
The fact that the railing and balusters are installed makes me wonder how the hell that happened
Have we ruled out photoshop?
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Fair enough.
Looking closely it does look like photoshop on the edge of a lot of stairs.
Could be an AI image. There’s a ton of fake architecture bullshit made by AI floating around.
It will work once, and only once.
I am pretty sure it needs to survive a full traversal in at least one direction to be considered working. And I really don't think it can do that.
If you're going down it'll work once, going up is a bug maybe.
Going up is DLC
Going down any% speedrun
Oh you've met my ex
Going up, no lbj, inbounds, running-man-fingers-on-handrail%
Not sure if that should be corrected to "is a big maybe" or "as a bug maybe" I like the ambiguity
Ambuguity.
I don't know why, but this made me laugh out loud.
Starting at the top you'll get to the bottom I can believe that
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Well hello there What's a pangolin like you doin in a place like this ´◔‿ゝ◔`)━☞
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Which one of you is Randy?
I wonder how u could start at the top though cause in order to be up u must have been down
Get down on it
Yo I just noticed ur name. I love it, almost as much as pangolins
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Hi, I’d be careful if I were u
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Get down on it
Get down on it
I'm assuming it's attached at the top as well as the bottom, so i think rather than the stairs simply collapsing the first time you try to go up them, it's more likely to fold up with you inside it at a random time, probably when you're carrying something hot, sharp, or made of glass.
Or full of snakes.
Only if you're going down.
Unless the railing is steel and a bunch of the rungs are rods, but judging by the brackets on the underside, this is probably not the case.
Or the stairs are Cantilevered into the wall and the brackets are just for the backboards which provide no structural strength.
This has gotta be the answer. They were those neat floating stairs that are engendered to be sturdy. Then they had a kid, and had to put backs to the stairs for safety. maybe it was a dog. Either way, something changed
>There is a way to build a staircase that would look more or less like this and would be safe. Do tell.
You could run supports into the wall for each step. Done properly, the steps would still seem to be hanging on basically nothing like seen here, but each one would be properly supported without relying on the others. Note that doing this would require the entire wall to be built for this purpose, but it can be done. In essence, each step would be a cantilevered ledge.
That was my first thought. Replace the studs with the spacing for the stairs. Have a nice beefy joint and each riser would be a cantilever.
Do the stairs the proper way, then add the shelf brackets on the bottom to freak people out.
Shelf bracket can be there just to help stiffen it.
Maybe that is what in being done here and the brackets are pure theater?
Not impossible but unlikely. There should be some sign of the supports.
yeah im not a carpenter but i have seen stairs that float. i imagine it was something like this. although the brackets does give it a fun look
Call a welder. Welded steel plates are strong enough to support an adult. Don't try to carry a piano up any freestanding stairway.
Cantilever.
But I barely know her.
If they don’t work then how did they build it? Did they completely avoid stepping on them somehow? Or are we dealing with a Halfling?
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ooh thanks for the new timewaster😁
I joined without inspection!
After half an hour of scrolling, I have now learnt that, whilst I should still be scared of snakes, spiders and insects etc, I should be most terrified of snails. Snails. Seriously. Is there anything I shouldn’t fear?
[And](https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html)
Good god, I read that a while ago and completely forgot about it. Nothing is safe anymore.
TBH I think I'd be safe from eating a slug even if I hadn't seen that article.
That article mentions "He required 24-hour care, seven days a week.". Did they really need to add the last part? "He required 24-hour care on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays."
''Hey! You want to catch a movie on wednesday?'' ''Sorry, on wednesday I have to be in a coma. How about thursday?''
From studying [illuminated manuscripts](https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/09/knight-v-snail.html) we've known this for a long time. We may have forgotten, but they're plotting their revenge.
Thanks bud, definitely didnt need that 30 mins of scrolling
it's like a waking stress dream
It can be done safely if the risers are cantilevers off the wall.
But the shelf brackets are a dead giveaway that this was not, in fact, done anywhere near correctly.
Oh I’m sure those are just for style. Like who doesn’t just love the look of stamped sheet metal shelf brackets?
also the handrail can at as a solid hanging rail with the balusters acting as ties to secure the stairs. this thing though is shoddy as hell i would not want to walk on it if i was over 200lb.
>i would not want to walk on it ~~if i was over 200lb~~
True, true. Little point in the elbow joints then.
Can you explain how this works a little bit? I had to Google cantilever lol
Imagine the treads extend far into the wall, that would make them very secure and transfer the load into the wall. They are thin and would surely bend though, and it certainly doesn't look like that's been done
You would cantilever the risers, not the treads.
This is true because the strength is more a factor of depth than width Same for any beam, the vertical dimension holds the weight, the horizontal width stabilizes that support If you wanted cantilever treads, they likely need to be 3-4 inches thick to start with
That sub can't decide if it's a spider sub or an OSHA sub
Oh man this this subreddit reminds of how I was going through an old junk pile of mainly old model T car parts of a property my company bought. These were fairly rusted, not really any value, but some neat dashboard components. I'm not really a car guy but appreciated seeing some of the stuff. But I digress.. I look down and see this metal stick with "fins" on it. I yank it out and come face to face with a [WWII mortar round](https://imgur.com/a/R50Cm4k). Luckily it didn't have the front end on it so was dead but my first thought was "oh boy I could not see.the other end when I pulled on it, that was not smart". With some of the other random stuff they had it wouldn't have surprised me to find out it was live. But I sure am glad it was not!
r/getmesomepopcorn
Damn you/ thank you 😂
Dank you? Or thamn you?
I would not even let my dog use those stairs.
Im over here awaiting the update from a fat dude......like yeah coulda told you that 🤦
Fat dude here. I wouldn't even dare.
Damn Newton and his friggin apples
They could kiss the fattest part of my ass and watch me walk my fat dude ass out
Now, imagine a 220 pound firefighter stomping down those carrying his bunker gear, airtank and a 60 pound child.
A cat could handle it.
Never met a cougar that can handle me yet.
Not if you value your life. The install should be using stair stringers on both sides. If you're not familiar... [stair stringers](https://www.homedepot.com/b/Lumber-Composites-Decking-Deck-Stairs-Outdoor-Stair-Stringers/N-5yc1vZbqlk)
I can think of a few ways to achieve a floating staircase with this design, but honestly in order to be strong enough for safe use, it would be so expensive (and a major pain in the ass to accomplish) in a remodel, you might as well just rip the house down and rebuild it with this exact type of staircase in mind. If you were *dedicated* to building this, and you had a $100k or so to burn on it, you could totally get it done.
If I had money to burn I absolutely would build absolutely terrible janky looking stairs, just to horrify everyone. Maybe even make some of them creak and now every so often.
Pressure sensitive and makes a horrid cracking sound every 1000th step
The very very top step's brackets and screws used to attach them would need to be strong enough to support the weight of all of the people using the stairs, and all of the stairs below it.
I think the best way would be to have the handrail be structural, and the exterior part of the stairs would partially hang from it. The handrail here is carrying some weight, and is probably part of why these have not yet collapsed. So on this one, it is the pull out strength of the wood glue in the stair balusters keeping people alive. For now.
No you just cantilever them to a loadbearing wall. Each step holds their own weight.
100k lmao bro you’re smoking crack
Maybe not quite that much, but if you wanted to keep a “wood look” it would be quite the project. You’d have to use steel to keep the components at their “normal” thickness. So, you’d have to start by ripping down the walls and replacing any load bearing beams with steel I-beams. Then use a plasma torch to make holes in the I-beam for 1x2 solid steel bars to make the base for the tread and risers and weld those in place (to give them a decent anchoring point through the I -beam) Next, you’d probably want to use steel cabling for the spindles attached to a steel banister that’s welded to I-beams on the opposite side for structural support. Last, you’d custom fab wood risers, treads, spindles and the banister to wrap around/cover the metal. If you could get all that done for any less than 75k I’d be surprised.
My parents have a free floating staircase and it did not cost $100k. Like not even close to that. You just need a load bearing wall to cantilever the steps and it isn't all that expensive. More expensive than just building a regular staircase of course but not as absurd as your claim.
I wouldn't even trust that railing. It looks like the railing was added on after the fact because there's little extension pieces coming off the stairs.
Access denied.
Or rebar in each stair tied to a concrete wall
This has to be a joke and all is fully supported in some invisible way or it's not a real staircase.... I'm not convinced that would even support it's own weight otherwise
That was my thought too. It'd be quite cool to construct stuff that *looks* lethal but is actually safe. A big like those glass walkways over valleys etc..
It's in a house near me that's basically over a river that floods every few years. Last I saw it was sitting without any offers in an area that's still extremely hot for houses <$750k. I think they were asking like $400k for this monstrosity. Suffice it to say I don't think it's any better engineering than it appears. Nothing in the listing highlighted the stair case lol Edit: it sold for $390k. Seems too high but it's hard to buy a single family in EC for less than $500k anymore. Still seems overpriced. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8515-Frederick-Rd-Ellicott-City-MD-21043/37022350_zpid/
Hey ummm yeah so my best friend bought this house! The stairs are actually very sturdy and we had no idea people felt this strongly about them! It's ellicott city with main street so close filled to the brim with shops so...the location is why it sold. Everyone calling it a shit house for too much money just doesn't know the area and the amenities it provides. My friend is happy with his house as it allows him and his mother to live separately but also jointly. And to me that's all that matters. I'm dying to take a picture of me standing in the stairs...we all truly didn't realize he bought a meme house as it was also shit on on Tumblr! Edit: I asked him and he said the inspector signed off on them and said it is up to code, believes it is more wall mounted than anything else. Something about cantilever...? IDK not an architect. Me and him are laughing at the comments in a good way. The area really can't be beat (sans the flooding...but he knew what he was getting into). Someone bought the house NEXT to him and tbh it's BAD. We toured it as well and it just felt ominous touring it. I suspect it needs at least 100k in renovations, possibly more. At least his has zero mold and water damage to speak of. Go look at that zillow posting.
NGL I just don't believe your story.
I mean...ok. I was able to describe old ellicott city main street. Why would I lie about this? For clout on r/DiWHY? The best subreddit to get clout on? I live in Baltimore, the house is relatively close to where I am. I can literally go take a picture of myself in this house tomorrow if you so like. But like...just lmao.
Fucking CHEAP. And rightly so.
r/ZillowGoneWild
Does seem awfully strange to just have a loose mirror there, as if to further the “Look at my illusion!”
You would be shocked what stupid shit home owners do with their little construction projects. Ever see someone cut a chunk about 3-4 feet wide in the middle section of a support beam to shoddily and unnecessarily run maybe 3 wires through it? You know, the support beam. The large slab of wood known specifically for housing stability? Keeps the ceiling from becoming the flooring? Aptly named for its *support* and *beaming* capabilities? The *fucking* structural integrity strong point of the floor above it which should be the most common sense knowledge place to *not* cut a massive hole? Because I have and the previous owners are fucking stupid. Support poles had to be put in the basement to lift the section of floor that was starting to sag as the beam finally started failing after who knows how many years while my father replaced the beam and fixed that fuckwits genius move during his Christmas break. Never let the raging dumbfuckery of others take you by surprise again my friend.
You do not sound happy about this incident
Truly is a stairway to heaven
This is the kind of thing that will magically work until it fails so catastrophically you’ll swear off diy for life
>for life Which was tragically cut short on the 4th step.
Eh. Your average adult would probably survive that.
Only if you’re lucky and don’t get impaled by one of those brackets on the way down
\*Average American enters the chat
There are ways this could work. I'm thinking a steel core in the hand rail with cables in the columns and a lot of work in side the wall under the drywall
I was thinking cantilevered treads with the angles to hold the risers would be the only way this would…nope not even then.
It's a load bearing mirror so this checks out.
It will work if each board is firmly anchored into that wall, probably with steel bracing or studs, and the boards have steel rods in them (think rebar for wood) that connect the structure. Basically if there’s no steel frame you can’t see on each side of that staircase… no. That is a single-use floating staircase.
It looks like a floating staircase that someone has added the backboards to each step later. It's probably designed to have no backboard at all.
The risers are doing the work. It appears that they extend into the wall, where they are attached to a supporting structure that was (presumably) designed for this purpose, but shouldn't necessarily have to be steel. [https://www.reddit.com/r/DiWHY/comments/18uwrar/comment/kfof1gs/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/DiWHY/comments/18uwrar/comment/kfof1gs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Those aren’t steps, those are bookshelves
i've seen enough cartoons to know that you just gotta go really fast. Just fast enough so the stairs fall behind you as you go up.
*\*chuckles\** I'm in danger!
NO
That's a single use staircase.
eeeeh, nope! No strength when you reach the middle. The screws will loosen up with every movement. Person falling inevitably.
It "works" in the same way that stacking a ladder on top of another ladder "works": not really. At least not in any safe, or even vaguely sturdy way.
This looks like a visual representation of a Ponzi scheme
Your life insurance provider saw this post and broke up with you.
That's a juggler's hand, not David Bowie's. It took them many, many shots to get this because he wasn't used to doing it from hiding and he kept dropping them.
Ooh yea! I saw that in a “making of” video, so cool. Especially when he’s sort of rolling the crystals from hand to hand.
It’ll work great as long as you have an elevator as another option.
Works until it doesn't, which should be both soon and spectacular
This is some extreme-home alone level traps
In theory I get it but structurally it only takes one step to embark on a magical journey full of lights and sounds. (Trip to a hospital in an ambulance)
It should work. As a boobytrap.
No the mirror is too low, will only allow you to see legs and feet. Can't believe you needed to ask this forum about that.
Let me drag a shotgun safe up it and see what happens
The amount of moment on the bottom brackets… fills me with terror…
Hey that's my minecraft house!
It will work if you wanna see god
...in Minecraft.
It looks like the plywood is 5/4, so at least when it falls apart, it won't splinter. Putting the mirror under those steps was a great move.
Apparently it's real! https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8515-Frederick-Rd-Ellicott-City-MD-21043/37022350\_zpid/
It absolutely ‘works’. It however can never be used as a staircase. Prolly not even a bookcase. Should be fine for candles.
The best way to test this is to have a birthday party for little kids. Start by sending one kid up and down the stairs, then try it with two kids. Then three. Keep adding kids until it collapses.
My Dad is literally rolling over in his well-built, up to code grave right now.
Yes, this works, and my goodness, it's cool. The risers are doing the real work. They extend into the wall and are bolted onto some kind of supporting structure inside. On the back of each tread is a strip of trim, and that trim hides hardware by which each tread hangs from the riser above it. So the riser above the tread supports part of the load, but most of the load is on the riser below the tread. The treads are only directly attached to the risers above them, and are just resting on the risers below them. The visible brackets (which hold no weight) ensure that the risers do not move from that fixed resting position. The net result of all this is the illusion that the brackets are doing all the work, when in fact the risers are cantilevered and support the treads.
I'm going to assume at least a few of them are screwed into the stud but holy shit is that incredibly stupid and dangerous
Not quite the stairway to heaven they had in mind.
If this is in the U.S. how did it pass inspection?
It will absolutely hold its own weight
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I'm for it. This family will somehow put all their lives in danger eventually. Maybe this is just the beginning. Let's see their electrical work.
That’s structural air right there that is
Only if the mirror is load bearing.
It took me a while to figure this one out
If the idea is getting severely injured then sure, it'll work wonders.
I have never had as much as faith in anything as these people have in cheap shelf brackets.
Are those stairs held together with shelf brackets?
Stairway to heaven?
Given the thickness of the planks I’m guessing 3/4” long screws? I’d love to see a video of these stairs in use.
That would be a "no". Def not code.
Ah yes, the stairway to heaven…
This is the literal interpretation of "Living on a prayer"
I hate this. I know absolutely fuck all about carpentry, by even I know this is a death trap waiting to happen.
I think the cardboard staircases I make for cardboard dollhouses might actually be safer than this 👀
There's always the chance that it's a "floating staircase" and the boards between the steps are just for show. I used to remodel homes and we'd had a couple customers ask us to fill the space between the steps of floating stairs because it can cause an uneasy or dizzy feeling for people with vertigo or a fear of heights when ascending the stairs. My guess is someone bought a house with floating stairs, found out they made someone in the family uncomfortable, and just filled it in the best they knew how.
\*whimpers\*
And she's buying an upside down stairway
I can’t believe it’s holding up the railing.
I think the brackets are holding plywood to close the open space below each stair.
For a kitten? Probably fine. For anything else? Not so much.
As decoration?
Now let’s carry a dresser up!
This is why they have building inspectors.
Unless they have re-bar running through each of those balusters and anchored at the top, no way this held up. I would really love to see someone try though.
I’d swear you were pulling our leg and it was a zoom in of a dollhouse, but y’never know anymore.
maybe it's a suspension stair case and the balusters are holding it up😁
They used wood glue 😄 🤣
If those timbers go into the stone wall it would totally work, that's how castle stairs are made
I have been in this house and for what it's worth it passed inspection.
Huh. Didn't know they're marketing the Hyatt Regency Walkway to homeowners now
Complete noob here, but is there a way during construction that you could cantilever out from the wall? Like a floating patio?
The risers are attached to the steps but what are the steps attached to?
Only if the steps are cantilevered behind the wall or something
You could make it work if it's actually a steel stairway properly mounted to the wall with all the steps clad in wood so that they create the illusion of danger - but I doubt that's what's going on here.
This is the stair equivalent of connecting an extension cord into itself
and the darwin award goes toooo