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Stairs

 One of the bigger issues with this house is that it has really short nose-bleed stairs.  I planned to lengthen them some but needed to do some discovery. 


Turns out a lot of that "short" feel is due to the carpet.  The treads are actually 9.25" deep.  Code requires 10" if you have nosing, 11" if you don't.  So if I add 1" length to each tread (6 treads per run) and covert to hardwood/vinyl with nosing, I can actually get these within code spec.  But more importantly, they will feel like normal steps.


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