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It has been a while since I have built a staircase, so I am absolutely delighted to have one to do now as my current major job. There is a lot of maths involved in building stairs, so it is a workout for the brain as well as for the body - the timbers are big and very heavy! Getting started - the planning. My first task was to plan the staircase and start doing the maths after obtaining the essential measurements of the empty stairwell space in the house. I did a heap of drawing and presented a few options, and my customers opted for a staircase with winders - that is, there is an upper and lower straight flight with radiating treads around the corner newell post mid way up. This would increase the size of the pantry underneath the upper flight, which was their reason for chosing this option. The maths in a staircase are really interesting, to make it egonomically right. Ever been on stairs which don't feel right? Here's how we'll get this one right: The height diffe...

The job I have at the moment is to make and install some jarrah joinery for a customer in Kewdale. It is many years since I did some sliding doors, but these doors are all sliders. A new spacious bathroom is being added onto an existing house. My task is to supply three things: 1. a jarrah lining and flyscreen frame for the toilet window, 2. a jarrah frame housing a single sliding jarrah framed glass door, a sliding jarrah fly door, and a fixed glass panel. The opening size is approx 2.1m x 1.8m. 3. a large jarrah frame housing a pair of sliding jarrah framed glass doors with fixed glass panes either side. The opening size is 4.2m x 2.7m. It fills the whole end wall of the extension. It is a giant! First, the smaller tasks... My able assistant Chris, a Year 11 student doing Work Expereince with me, is here helping trim the stiles of the smaller frame. The brickwork was pretty dodgy, with the opening a parralelogram rather than a rectangle! So we had to have several goes ...