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I'd like to open-up an understairs cupboard in a victorian terrace house.
The staircase is a "quarter landing with winder" according to diag. in http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/feature/staircase-design
Sides of staircase (strings to floor) are clad in t&g - cupboard accessed via door beneath 1/4-landing.
I'd like to remove t&g panelling & door so I can put a piano beneath the stairs, but there's a problem...
The newel post that should support 1/4 landing down to floor level has been cut off and now sits on 4"x2" door-frame... not ideal, but it's supported the landing for the last 20years!
To fit the piano I need to remove cladding and doorframe, so I'll have to find a new way to support the newel.
If I just reinstate the original post down to the floor I won't be able to sit at the piano!!!
Anyone got any experience with removing this newel? - I'd wondered about a steel bracket on the party wall cantilevering out beneath the top tread of the 1st run of stairs, onto which the cut-down newel can be fixed......
I can't believe I'm the first person to want to open out such a staircase and wondered if anyone could advise of the simplest solution!
The staircase is a "quarter landing with winder" according to diag. in http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/feature/staircase-design
Sides of staircase (strings to floor) are clad in t&g - cupboard accessed via door beneath 1/4-landing.
I'd like to remove t&g panelling & door so I can put a piano beneath the stairs, but there's a problem...
The newel post that should support 1/4 landing down to floor level has been cut off and now sits on 4"x2" door-frame... not ideal, but it's supported the landing for the last 20years!
To fit the piano I need to remove cladding and doorframe, so I'll have to find a new way to support the newel.
If I just reinstate the original post down to the floor I won't be able to sit at the piano!!!
Anyone got any experience with removing this newel? - I'd wondered about a steel bracket on the party wall cantilevering out beneath the top tread of the 1st run of stairs, onto which the cut-down newel can be fixed......
I can't believe I'm the first person to want to open out such a staircase and wondered if anyone could advise of the simplest solution!