Ranch With Finished Basement House Plans

How much would it cost to build a staircase that doesn’t already exist ?

Right now I live in a ranch style home with an unfinished basement. We plan on finishing the basement, but realize that the staircase is in an undesirable location. As it stands right now, you would have to walk through the entire house, through my laundry room, then down a very steep staircase. I have a location in mind (halfway between my living room and kitchen). There’s a closet there right now….kind of in the middle of nothing. I would like to know about how much this would cost or if it would be too hard to do. Any idea ?

Total costs (materials plus shipping and labor) for installing a straight, return or L-shaped stair can run $1,300 -$7,000 or more. Depending on you choice of materials, (with pine being the cheapest of the wooden stairs) to complexity of the project and availability of labour.

To do what you’ve talked about would involve cutting a stairwell in the floor, trimming out the stairwell and fixing the stairs in place. Nowadays having a set of stairs manufactures is not as big a job as once was because the specialist manufactures use hi-tech machines to cut the materials to specifications relatively quicky. You can buy off the shelf so to speak, stairs of the cheapest materials, relatively cheap.

Without looking at the site and going just on what you’ve stated to buy the pine stairs and cut a stairwell, then install the stairs would take 3 days at tops, running you about $3000 to $4000 depending on the complexity of the project. If any load bearing walls need to be built, you’d be looking at $4000 to $6000.

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