modern staircases

I'm building a new house and have a loft area. does anyone have a source for modern metal staircases(not spiral).I have to build a faux staircase out of wood becuase of code and then will rip them out to put the metal staircase that will be steeper and take up less room.:grin:

here is one that i was looking at for my remodeling project but then remembered my dog isn't that good with steps so something like this would kill her.

http://www.architecturalstairs.com/TinyRUN.html

The cheapest way to do this is design a stair on a CAD program and then shop it out to a few welders. You can have the pieces custom made and delivered and then the welder can assemble the staircase. This would also mean taking dimensions to a woodworker and getting treads made that you could bolt to the risors. The trick is getting all the measurements right.

Most of the time you see the stringers made out of channel but 1/2 x 14 bar stock will work too (although each stringer will weigh over 300 lbs.

I did price them out with a local welding company. They wanted $7500, which is a little steep, money wise,(but of course they had to build them to code which makes them very big). Anyway i did contact the company mentioned above about their Tinyrun stairs. They are in south florida and the stairs cost $2200 and they take up very little space. floor to floor height is 10'6 and they take up an area of 70x24. perfect for a loft stair.

alternating tread stairs: http://www.lapeyrestair.com/

I got a price of $2200 for all the parts I would need to assemble the stair. That is, I was going to give them a CAD file with dimensions for the stringers and angles needed to put the stair case together (including all the holes for attching 2x2 angle to support the treads and connect the stringers to the floor and wall). They were going to use a water jet to cut all the pieces. Of course, after that it was going to be up to me. WIth each stringer weighing in at 300+ pounds, it was going to be a job to get them into place. But after that, bolting everything else together would be relatively easy. Still I think it might have been about $3000 all together. I am still waiting on a bid from a welder who would come to the house and build the stair. The problem with assembling it off-site is that it woul dprobably weigh 900 pounds and not fit through any door.

I got a quote from http://www.lapeyrestair.com/ .I sent my measurements and they came back at about $2000 for hot dip galvanized and $3000 stainless steel. the only problem is that the will not sell to a private individual for residential use. I think i can get around that somehow though.

Great - I'm glad that worked for you. Be careful on those - the alternating treads take some getting used to. Before you know it you will be shooting up and down in the dark like any stair.

We are presently building a home and have contracted a steel fabricator to build something very similar to the photo I have attached. It will end up costing around $8500 Canadian installed including all railings. Food for thought.

I have a loft area, too and quoted AS in Florida and it is $6k for a U-shaped unit with freight to MI. There seems to be very few non-spiral sources in the US... at least according to Google.

Have you tried industrial magazines like McMaster Carr or Graingers or what not for what stairs they sell?

PS. Try to make your wood stair somewhat a kit that is disassemblable (word?) so when/if you sell, you can throw it back in with little work. Just a thought.