Single Step Stairs

Step 7: Enjoy!

Enjoy!  Here are a few shots of the finished project.

Comments

[karlpinturr]

Very nice indeed! Certainly cheaper, better-looking and more versatile than actual trampoline ladders tend to be.

I almost want to say that 'form has followed function', but it hasn't - the two go hand-in-hand here.

I think the tops/treads have a slightly 60's retro look about them.

And storage space, too!! That's great for when the kids have run off indoors without their shoes...

The only fly in the ointment for me is my inner pedant wondering why they're called 'single step' stairs... I mean, there are 4 steps/treads to them, and you've used 7 steps for this Instructable - or maybe I'm missing something?

[nicknewbie]

they are called that because when you use them you take one step per lever rather than two with traditional stairs

[karlpinturr]

Sooo..., 'traditional' stairs are/were a LOT deeper (front-to-back) than the ones in every house I've ever known?

Presumably something to do with not over-taxing the rich with such steep flights to reach the next level (and probably very quickly became status symbols)?

Hmmm... Thinking about it, that would account for the 'sweeping' staircase that so many films used to show...

So, thanks, nicknewbie.

[nicknewbie]

sarcasm doesn't work when you don't understand what your being sarcastic about presumably something to do with not over-taxing the rich

[karlpinturr]

Sorry, that wasn't actually meant to be sarcastic - I was typing what I thought, as I thought it, and not re-reading and editing it enough.

I should have said (having slept on it) that manor-houses etc., afforded more room for grander staircases, which some designers and/or Lords-of-the-manor may have (partly) justified as a way of not over-stressing their hearts - though everybody knows/would-have-known that that would have been, at best, a secondary concern.

Again, sorry about the mix-up.

[mtamburo]

What a great instructable!
My interpretation of "single step" :
each tread is meant for a single (adult sized) foot.

[Pilgrim55]

Thanks! I think you sumed it up the best. Each step is made for one adult sized foot, however in this case I just increased the size as much for the top area and still use just one sheet of plywood. I thought that might be safer for the kids. Who knows I might could have made each step and made another step?

[karlpinturr]

Hmmm! - Sounds plausible, thanks.

[crkalino]

Cool! It's always neat to see a budget project that looks great, too.