How to support a turn in a staircase?

Question

This is for a shed. I'm having problems finding enough support for either stringer and I can't find any close-up images of how this might be done. My only choice seems to be to pull the lower staircase back from the upper. Is there a way to make this work within this tighter space?

Answer 1

Dog-Leg stairs

Structurally, the flights of a dog-leg stair are usually supported by the half-landing, which spans the adjoining flank walls.

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In this arrangement, the stringers are joined to a newel post. The lower landing is also partly supported by the newel post. The upper by only the flanking walls and, I guess, effectively braced by lower stringers.