How to Add stairway headroom with This Old House

Watch this video from This Old House to learn how add stairway headroom.

Steps:

1 Carefully pry old stair treads from staircase.

2 Use reciprocating saw to cut out the old stair stringers.

3 Cut new notched stringers from 2x12s using a circular saw; finish cuts with handsaw.

4 Attach metal hanger plates to top of each stringer.

5 Nail metal timber hangers to bottom of each stringer.

6 Set new stringers into stairway opening.

7 Fasten top of stringers by nailing through hanger plates and into header.

8 Secure bottom end of stringers by nailing through the timber hangers.

9 Nail new risers to stringers.

10 Rip old treads down to fit new stringers.

11 Nail the stair treads to the stringers.