" Let's open the trailer."

" Alright."

" I can't wait to see what we got in here. This is our staircase or part of it. And, you know, you've got an interesting nitch that you've built in terms of a business because you've just started this port city staircase business in order to kind of address the higher end of the market?"

" That's correct Bob. Both Dale and I came from the National Stair company. It was really more veered toward mass production."

" And how do you price the job? Right off the blueprints?"

" We price it right off the blueprints, but we actually field measure every staircase. "

" Yeah. It would be awful to show up a good job and have the staircase not fit."

" Really Bob."

" So here we've got---- Well, that's for another job I bet, right?"

" Yes sir."

" And this would be ours?"

" Uh huh."

" And we're talking---- is this temporary?"

" These are backing strips----"

" Backing strips."

" for sheetrock application."

" Oh, I see. Okay. Well, we'll look at it closely in place. Can I help you bring it in?"

" Sure."

" Take more men on it. Okay. Hey Kevin."

" Hey Bob."

" How are you?-Doing great."

" So, this is an exciting moment. You don't have to build it onsite."

" Thankfully."

" And I suppose you've ordered this before in the past, right?"

" Well, this is the first one that we've done."

" Yeah. So what are the components that we're looking at here? We just looked at this a minute ago, and these are to receive the plaster board, right?"

" That's correct. [unk] at the bottom of the staircase and you can see we used 34 birch plywood for the risers and it's spurred to the back of this reclaimed heart of pine."

" And the heart of pine of course is the tread."

" That's correct."

" And how is everything fastened?"

" Well it's all fastened together with screws. You can see here the glue box----"

" Yeah."

" [unk] the bottom of that joint. And if you look at the very bottom of the staircase, we use a computer numeric control router, so route out the wall side of the staircase. "

" So we're looking at the skirt board here."

" That's correct."

" If you see this on a bevel, we drive wedges on it to prevent it from squeaking."

" So that's the best way to keep the squeaks from ever occurring, doesn't it?"

" Uh huh."

" Alright. Well you've got to take out the temporary then what's the advantage of doing this from the builder's perspective?"

" From our point of view Bob, we don't want to have 2 or 3 weeks where we've got a guy building stairs on site on a very tight construction schedule."

" Uh huh."

" So we get [unk] to come in, do the stairs for us. They bring us the stairway. They put it in. they put tread covers on it to protect it during construction."

" Uh huh."

" They're in and out in about 4, 5 hours and they're done."

" So, these are cost savings?"

" There's a cost savings. There's a big time savings. And to us, time is money."

" Okay. And now, what we have here is temporary is that we'll go out of the way, and isn't there a kind of waste of money involved in just having these temporary stairs disappear?"

" Well, during construction, it's always better to have stairs to move material up and down, but we'll take this out, and we use this, and we'll take them to the back, and reuse them. We use this stairs about 4 times."

" Great. Okay. Oh, that looks nice. Now, how do we install it?"

" What we just want to do is hatch this at the top of some finished nails."

" Uh huh."

" And then we shim it along the wall side with some rocks that allow sheetrock to slide in behind the 331."

" Okay. So over here, at your stud, you'd be putting in a block. He's got hard tools. And so that happens at each one, but you still have enough of a pocket here to slip the drywall right into place, right?"

" That's correct. In this trim stage, we'll cap that joint with a piece of trimming."

" Good planning. Alright. So now we're ready to remove the temporary second half then complete the job. I love the profile against that grid. Instant staircase, huh Kevin."

" It's just gorgeous."

" Yeah."

" Just gorgeous."

" Well, what I love is the material. You gotta take off the protective cover so that you can see the top of the tread here. It's so handsome, and it's reclaimed lumber, right?"

" Beautiful reclaimed heart of pine."

" Now I've got the spindle samples here, and one has already been chosen, but you've got quite a few options here, don't you Jeff?"

" Yes, we do Bob. When we chose [unk] on this job is we call it our Wilmington profile handrail in the Honduras mahogany."

" Yeah. And then which is the spindle itself?"

" It would be a [unk] inch and 34 for the top."

" Now that will look very handsome."