Silt (architecture)
See also: Silt
The silt is the sill which follows the slope of the Escalier on the side of the day ( i.e. on the side opposed to the wall) in which encrust the steps, rises and the balusters or the bars of the slope.
One distinguishes the silt with the Frenchwoman (rectangular beam of section in which the steps and the rises are embedded) silt with English the also called silt with toothed rack (beam of rectangular section cut in toothed rack on whom the steps are posed).
According to the cases, the silt is out of wood, metal, stone ( silt installed , interdependent of walk in the case of stone staircases of size). In the case of a concrete staircase, the silt is not systematic (the flight can be an autonomous flagstone).
In the case of silts for a stone staircase, this one has only one esthetic function. The silt is not at all a reinforcement to support the steps which only hold in the wall. Only the case where the silt is used as bearing structure for the steps it is when there is a silt on each side of the steps.
The wall-string staircase is the silt of decoration (generally painted) integrated into the wall of the stair-well.
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