treads butt to riser or go under?

[tim00]

Do you guys typically butt your stair treads to the riser or run them under the riser?

 

[chippie244]

From this and your previous posts I think you are a bit too far out of your depth to be building your own stairs yet.
There are plenty of books on the subject which I would suggest you read, if you dont know the answers to these simple questions who knows what other potentially dangerous mistakes you will make through ignorance.

 

[anobium]

Butt the treads to the risers and screw the riser to the tread from the reverse side

 

[noseall]

Don't forget the wedges.

 

[tim00]

Thanks anobium and noseall for your polite and considered replies - time was when treads had tongues and risers had groves.

chippie,stop playing with the play-dough and watch my lips. this site is diynot, get it ? DIY implies an open forum for all kinds of experience and all kinds of questions. By and large there are no stupid questions in life but there sure are a lot of stupid people.

 

[foxhole]

I think Chippie was simply pointing out "potentially dangerous mistakes you will make through ignorance." You asked for advice, there is no reason the advice should please you, a wise man listens to all advice, a fool to none.

 

[noseall]

It is fair to say that for most diy'ers constructing a staircase is out of reach.

However, with the right tools, guidance, enthusiasm, and skill there is the odd diyer that could pull it off.

That said, if a diyer starts asking basic questions about complicated projects (staircases are complex and need to adhere to b'regs) then it is time to get worried.

I thought the question was innocuous enough.

 

[chippie244]

tim00, I have built more sets of treads, staircases and ladders than I can remember, straight, curved, circular, on wheels, for houses, warehouses, TV, theatre, film and opera so if you don't know something basic and you ask for advice don't get ****y when it is given.

 

[chippie244]

In my original reply I wasn't trying to put tim00 down but it was the 3rd post of his I had read where he was demonstrating a lack of basic knowledge and I was worried.
I could have made my post gentler but I am a 1 finger typer and it takes me ages to post anything so I tend to be blunt.
For what it is worth I generally run the tread over and under the riser on a closed tread but there was very little info given on the type of construction.
Sorry for any offence given.

 

[tim00]

I apologise too, sorry that i rushed to judgement and reaction. Thanks for being a man and stepping up in the right way.