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    Stairs connect different floors of a building and come in various shapes like straight, L-shaped, spiral, and U-shaped. They are typically made from materials like wood, metal, or concrete. Key parts of stairs include the vertical riser and horizontal tread, with rules specifying the minimum and maximum combined rise and tread for safety. Landings provide platforms between flights of stairs, and newels form central supporting columns.

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    Stairs connect different floors of a building and come in various shapes like straight, L-shaped, spiral, and U-shaped. They are typically made from materials like wood, metal, or concrete. Key parts of stairs include the vertical riser and horizontal tread, with rules specifying the minimum and maximum combined rise and tread for safety. Landings provide platforms between flights of stairs, and newels form central supporting columns.

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    Stairs connect different floors of a building and come in various shapes like straight, L-shaped, spiral, and U-shaped. They are typically made from materials like wood, metal, or concrete. Key parts of stairs include the vertical riser and horizontal tread, with rules specifying the minimum and maximum combined rise and tread for safety. Landings provide platforms between flights of stairs, and newels form central supporting columns.

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    Professional Topics Steps or Stairs

    EXERCISES:
    I Answer the questions:
    1. What connects the two floors of a building?
    The stairs.

    2. What is the noising?


    If the edge has a moulding, it is called the noising.

    3. What types of stairs are there?


    Straight, L-shaped, Spiral, U-shaped.

    4. What are two rules common to steps for all staircases?


    a) twice the rise of a step plus the going must not be less than 550mm and not
    more
    than 700mm and
    b) the minimum rise must be 75mm.

    5. What are stairs usually made of?


    Wood, metal, concrete.

    II Give definitions for the following words:


    1. A raiser is the vertical surface of stairs.
    2. A tread is the horizontal surface of stairs.
    3 A landing is a platform between flights of stairs
    4. A newel is the central column.
    5. A flight is a number of uninterrupted stairs.

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