Steel stringer staircase | Construction error? Your assessment

Gladly, but a bit of patience: Christmas party tonight, so not before tomorrow afternoon... no!

It is already becoming clear in the thread: the exit step has a historical origin, as the connection: wooden staircase - wooden floorboards only makes sense with an exit step. Stairs were built not for the next 20, but for the next 100 years. The exit step wears out over time but can be quickly replaced if necessary. If the floorboards now go right up to it, replacing the first floorboard becomes much more complicated. Nowadays, floorboards are a luxury and have long been replaced by other types of flooring; the exit step only has an optical significance.

Anyone buying... say a 30-year-old house today will completely renovate and replace floors and stairs anyway, so it doesn’t matter whether there is an exit step that can be quickly replaced if everything is being taken out anyway.

Since the manufacturer must have made the staircase according to some plan, it would be good to see it ...

I design about 30 steel staircases a year, and occasionally it happens that I have to make the last step flush with the landing at the top ... usually it's due to the layout or the connection to the landing being too small ...

As always, I think the builder of the staircase should inform you beforehand what it will look like.....not just build it and then be surprised....

Often, as a layperson, you unfortunately don't know what visual effects a decision will have...

I want to be able to choose consciously, in this case:

1) Steeper staircase (which I don't think would work with 19.3 cm)
2) No landing

Then I know what to expect and choose between a and b, and that's that.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

What many do not know ...

Every company that manufactures or markets metal parts must be certified according to EN 1090!
EN1090 has been mandatory since 2014! Its predecessor DIN 18800 has been since 1989 ...

This means structural analysis, workshop drawings, approvals ... except for a few parts, it must even include a CE certificate!

Unfortunately, this is largely deliberately ignored by many, even architects and site managers, who give the contract to the cheapest bidder, because otherwise they would have to do more than just formulate two sentences in tenders ... usually they also lack the necessary knowledge ...

we have a wooden staircase, so also an exit step - and I'm glad about it, because I didn't know that it could be done without one *lol and I would have been really annoyed if we hadn't had one, because I find that really ugly. So something like that should really be mentioned by the staircase builders in my opinion...