I want to make a new flight of stairs for my own renovation job. I'm pretty sure that I'm ok with all the regs etc and confident that I can build it. However, I'm unsure how to secure it in place at the bottom.
It will be a free standing straight run stair case (so there are no walls either side to fix it to). I can anchor the flight in at the top to a joist running across the landing above with the use of coach bolts (or similar), but I'm stuck at the bottom of the stairs. The floor it will be resting on at the bottom is made of 3/4" T & G floorboarding over 4"x 2" joists on dwarf walls which means there is a small 18" void under the floor.
I think I'm be right in saying that it wouldn't be secure enough just to screw the string down to the floorboarding. Would the joists under the floorboarding be strong enough to anchor into or, is this not advisable either? What alterantives are there to secure the bottom of the stairs for maximum stabilty and most importantly, strength?
Any advice appreciated.