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Could you walk these sober, drunk, or in the dark?
- Thread starter Slayven
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This looks like a non-conventional alternating tread staircase. They are sometimes installed in a smaller space to access an attic or something, and sometimes for the safety of at-risk older adults and to accommodate certain types of disabilities. I suspect the latter is true here because of the two-tiered, double-sided railing.
Traditional alternating tread staircases are considered much safer. I'm not sure in this case, as the design is unusual, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Traditional alternating tread staircases are considered much safer. I'm not sure in this case, as the design is unusual, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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Those are way easier to walk on than "normal" stairs. What's difficult is old stairs. A couple thousand years ago, carving stairs out of rock, they just made them tall and skinny.
Sober, yep, anything else an hour of stumbling and banging the walls going to happen.
Now the pic in the replies is fucking evil.
Now the pic in the replies is fucking evil.
Better than my current "stairs". Basically have to scale a ladder into our bedroom, which makes laundry complicated. The layout apparently killed a resident some decades ago.
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Yeah, there's a reason I always sleep on the couch when I've drank. When we first moved here we both hit our heads on the opening at the top a dozen times between us. Hell, even our cats were falling off these "stairs" regularly the first few months we were here. Not graceful feet landing mind you, full cartwheel side landing weirdness. Had to put down pads until they figured it out. Apparently the artist that used to live here was into occult stuff and made a bunch of ladders, lofts, and hatchways in some 13 Ghosts / Winchester house kinda sense until he fell off one of them while drinking one night and bit the dust.
The clarification gave me quite a chuckle, although I'm glad the kitties are okay.
I used to have this from Ikea and let me tell you if you have to get up at night to take a whiz or frequently get home drunk, never get a loft bed. That ladder is more precarious than it looks.
That's a shelf. Not stairs.Shouldn't be too hard if you swallow your pride and just crawl down.
Now this? Fuck that noise.
Up - easily.
Down - I'm slipping and falling down on that shit hard and hitting my ass on every stair on the way.
Down - I'm slipping and falling down on that shit hard and hitting my ass on every stair on the way.
Watch out for your decorative porcelain bong, daring sir!Shouldn't be too hard if you swallow your pride and just crawl down.
Now this? Fuck that noise.
is the design supposed to make it faster to traverse? I think I'd do fine except in complete darkness, better know where that first step is or else
