OK I will see if i can sketch it quickly.
Let me explain to you what I mean by a final step near the door.
Imagine you have reached the top of your landing, this would take you all the way up to about 2400mm (240cm) final height, you still have to overcome another 20cm, so now as you turn to open the bedroom door, you then take a final step of 20cm into your bedroom.
But this can be pretty nasty, a sudden deep step right near a door can cause problems.
So I suggest that we put half step (10cm) at the top and not full 20cm, so any impact of missing your footing especially coming out of the bedroom will be limited.
So we now make up for the short at the bottom landing, so what we can do is raise the whole of bottom landing by 10cm, so in other wotrds when you want to go from living room to your kitchen, you will need to overcome a small (half step) to get on top of the bottom landing, and then down again by 10cm step into the kitchen, people soon get used to such steps and need not even be conscious of it, subconsciously they know they will be stepping up or stepping down.
So effectively as you want to go up, you climb 10cm from your living room to your landing, then negotiate 12 step risers of 20cm each, this takes you to 2500 (250cm) and a final 10cm step into the rooms.
I done a pencil drawing, but can't find my camera and if i do I will take a picture and post it later on, the steepness or angle is just 45 degrees which i believe is just about acceptable and each landing width will be 70cm, which is more than adequate.
Let me explain to you what I mean by a final step near the door.
Imagine you have reached the top of your landing, this would take you all the way up to about 2400mm (240cm) final height, you still have to overcome another 20cm, so now as you turn to open the bedroom door, you then take a final step of 20cm into your bedroom.
But this can be pretty nasty, a sudden deep step right near a door can cause problems.
So I suggest that we put half step (10cm) at the top and not full 20cm, so any impact of missing your footing especially coming out of the bedroom will be limited.
So we now make up for the short at the bottom landing, so what we can do is raise the whole of bottom landing by 10cm, so in other wotrds when you want to go from living room to your kitchen, you will need to overcome a small (half step) to get on top of the bottom landing, and then down again by 10cm step into the kitchen, people soon get used to such steps and need not even be conscious of it, subconsciously they know they will be stepping up or stepping down.
So effectively as you want to go up, you climb 10cm from your living room to your landing, then negotiate 12 step risers of 20cm each, this takes you to 2500 (250cm) and a final 10cm step into the rooms.
I done a pencil drawing, but can't find my camera and if i do I will take a picture and post it later on, the steepness or angle is just 45 degrees which i believe is just about acceptable and each landing width will be 70cm, which is more than adequate.
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