How it is done
Engineering before beauty
Carriage design, opening sizes, and guard infill are checked against current Ontario Part 9.
Tread thickness
A thin decorative cap on a skinny plate will bounce. Tread thickness is structural.
Rail that you can actually hold
A 2x6 cap is not a handrail. The oak rail gets a graspable profile and real blocking.
Correct when
Contemporary GTA houses whose drawings already respect code, or whose drawings we are allowed to fix.
Wrong when
A screenshot with illegal gaps and no rail.
Questions about this method
Read further
Open-riser and floating hardwood stairs
When an open-riser oak stair is legal in Ontario, what it costs, and when Green Hardwood will refuse the drawing.
Hardwood stairs and Ontario Building Code
Rise, run, nosing, graspable handrails, and guards — the code details that get beautiful GTA stairs failed at inspection.