Vent: a lead carpenter in Baltimore handed me back my stair stringer plan and asked if I measure with my eyes | Build And Design

Ray Hill · 2026-10-01T04:30:02.941014+00:00

I had been eyeballing tread depth for 2 years and calling it 'field fit.' He made me redo a full mockup on scrap 2x10 with an actual tape and a story pole, and not one tread was off by less than a quarter inch. Do you guys mock up stairs or just send it?

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