To ask you to calculate whether I can fit a staircase in

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I’ve got a head height of 226 cm and the maximum and the maximum rise that you can have on the staircase is 42°

Oh give us a fighting chance and give both measurements in either cm or inches - also length and width of space... and doors...
And a dIagram, we need a dIagram

Sorry! The second one was degrees. Ds has figured it out using sin cos tan.
Took the measurement and looks like it might be need to be curved staircase grrrrr

I got that you would need 251.1cm horizontally ie floor space.

thank you.

I'm about 10 cm short :(.

Maybe if I put a curve in?

What would happen if I just put in a staircase that was a bit too steep? I'm joining up two flats now but when I sell I would sell them off separately IYSWIM.

does anyone know if I could put in "space-saving stairs"? also known as loft stairs, apparently?

You need to get professional advice on this one, not Mumsnet. Staircases (and associated parts like balustrades) have very strict building regulations applied to them. You can't just change the height of them, and you'd be liable for any accidents caused by doing so. Doing so would also devalue a property when it comes to sell.

The little bit I know about this is from DH being an architect and pointing out nice details about illegal things to estate agents when house hunting!

What Threeflyingducks said, You may just get away with posting a cute 'duck' notice if you live in a 300 year old cottage. Otherwise, no.

"You may just get away with posting a cute 'duck' notice if you live in a 300 year old cottage."

staircase builder guy is coming over tomorrow to check it out.

You can't put loft stairs anywhere that leads to any room you want to be habitable.

If you make them 'a bit too steep' you will fail building regs.

If you can't get the rise shallow enough then you can made-to-measure staircases that have a turn in them. It's what most people do when they do loft converstions.

The difference in price for a made to measure turny staircase as opposed to an off the peg straight one is around £1000 compared to £100 (according to my builder)

omg!

the alternative is to move a bloody great steel which is going accross where the staircase ought to be. Its purpose is to hold up two other steels. Apparently we could have a "nib" doing that instead.... I have a feeling that will cost more than a turny staircase....