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Foreman said my stair stringers looked like a roller coaster, so I rebuilt my whole layout method
About a year back my foreman walked a set of stairs I'd just framed in a house out in Franklin and he didn't yell, he just pointed at the stringer and said "son, that thing dips worse than a roller coaster." I was cutting stringers with a framing square and stair gauges, and my rise was creeping on me the whole way down because I kept nudge adjusting instead of trusting one layout. He made me pull the whole set and start over, which hurt since I'd already been on it most of a day. What I changed was simple: I now clamp a straight edge to the stringer and mark all my rises and runs off one number, then measure back to check every fourth step before I ever touch the saw. Took me about three jobs to get fast at it, but my steps quit wandering on me entirely. Now that dip trick he taught is the first thing I check when somebody hands me a crooked run. Anybody on here doing stairs a different way that keeps your checking faster?
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