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Balanced Steps

A series of winders that are arranged to have the same width close to the inside of the turn as the adjacent flier treads. Balanced steps give a far more comfortable set of winders that replace a quarter turn stair landing.

Normal stair winders are fairly uncomfortable and quite dangerous. Doing it this way is a compromise. By far the best way is to do a quarter turn landing, but in cases where room is tight then this might just do.

• The way that it is drawn here is just about as wide an arc as possible unless the means of the exercise is to incorporate the curve.
• I have drawn the curve here that takes up as much space as two ordinary treads, so by using winders like this only one extra rise is gained in the stair.
• I have drawn the curve here that takes up as much space as two ordinary treads, so by using winders like this only one extra rise is gained in the stair.
• More often than not a shorter radius is used. Note that I have drawn in a couple of dotted arcs on the plan. They are used to get the slope relationship value if the stair is wider than 1000 or 39".

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