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How To Build Stair Walls With The RedX App

  • Writer: Josh Lefebvre
    Josh Lefebvre
  • Aug 8, 2022
  • 2 min read

There are several ways to build walls that go underneath the stairs. I'll cover the easiest method i've found, which uses the RedX Wall App


The image below is the Stair Wall plan we will be creating.




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Measurements Required:

Here is the information you will need to know to enter into the app.

- Stair Angle

- Wall Length

- Stud Spacing

- Wall height to left side or wall height to right side


These are all of the measurements you need for a basic stair wall! But you can choose to add some components to this wall.



App Wall Components

Tap on "Add Wall Components" to add a component to this wall. here are all the items you can add.

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View Measurements

Great you've successfully built a stair wall plan! Now lets view all of the measurements to build this wall. Scroll down and you'll see

- Cut List

- Wall Details


The cut list will include

- All of the stud lengths to build this wall

- Wall bottom plate length


The wall details will include

- Wall length

- First stud centre

- Diagonal measurement to square your wall (From the bottom left corner to the top right corner)

- Number of full studs needed

- Wall Surface Area



Save And Load Jobs

Now that you are done creating your plan, lets go over how we can Save and Load Plans for later use. Plans will be saved to you the cloud and you can access your saved plans on any of your devices.


Saving a Job

Tap on the Menu Button on the top right corner of the app bar, This will open up the side menu, from here you can Save the wall plan.


Loading a Job

To load a job from the home screen of the app you'll see Recent Builds from here you can select and load up one of your saved plans.



Print and Share The Plan:

Tap on the Menu Button on the top right corner of the app bar, This will open up the side menu, from here you can


Share to Group Folders

Group folders are a great way for to share plans with everyone on your team. Tap on the Share To Group Folder button, then select the group folder you would like to share the plan to. The plan will then be accessible for everyone who has access to that group folder.


Print

Tap on the Print button, then select the printer you would like to print to.


Export as PDF

Tap on the Share button, This will create a PDF version of the plan that you can share with other apps. For example you can save the PDF to your phone, email it, or send it in a text.


Save To Photos

Tap on the Save To Photos, The app will ask you permission to save the plan to your photos, tap on accept and thats it! The plan will have been saved to your photos.


Conclusion

Now that we went over the basics on how to create stair wall plans on the RedX Wall App try to build your own custom wall! There are lots of other great features on the Wall App like Rake Walls , Tall Walls, and of course Regular Walls.

Do you think this is something that you would use? Let me know in the comments.


Thanks to all of you who made it this far!


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