Spindle touching newel. Advice please!

[ash&amy]

See pic, of the stairs that have just been installed for a loft conversion.

Is there any circumstances when this is actually ok? Or has someone made a mistake.

Essentially the first spindle touches the newel post, and then there are 2 spindles per step, done decently, evenly spaced, until the top of the stairs.

Greatful for any thoughts asap.

Thanks, Ash.

 

[big-all]

off no importance regs wise as long as you have no gaps greater than around 95mm[100mm sphere size]
that aside not nice in my eyes

 

[Tigercubrider]

looks to me that they concentrated on getting two spindles per step.
and didn't think about the bottom.

Whe I did mine I calculated the overall thickness of the spindles at the base, checked the spacing was in regs and fitted the spindles so that the spacing was even.

 

[Notch7]

rollin rollin rollin....keep them wagons rollin

Yehaw



Basically, the chippie hasn't worked out the spacings correctly.
He's having a giraffe

A You measure the length of the base rail between newels on the angle

B you measure the exact length the angle cut takes up of a spindle up the base rail

C multiply one by the other.

D deduct the answer from A

E divide C by the number of spaces (no of spindles +1)

answer should give you spacing which must less than 100mm.

The spindle spacers can be knocked off and the spindles re-fitted -unless theyve been glued really well.