As Built Stairs - Wall Questions

[DefinedDesign]

Working on stairs with a client, and trying to replicate their as built:

I got as far as this in CA x12

When moving the wall to align center with the wall under the stairs

 

I end up with this:

 

Client wants to extend the first step as shown below into the green box - several attempts to add in a landing but I can't seem to figure out how to make it match the height of the first step:

Once I can get the wall in place in CA X12 - I need to position the first three steps inside of that wall to a finish width of 40.25" - as you can see from the photo below the third step is partially behind the wall and partially over the wall underneath the stairs.  The clients wants a hand rail on the wall.  As you can see from the image above when I place the wall into the proper location the handrail extends through the wall - would like the handrail to be on the stair side only.

 

Hope this all makes sense, grateful for any insight, watching all the CA Stairs videos did not help me understand how to resolve.  I've attached the plan if anyone wants to dig around, please know I'm using X12.  Thanks in advance for your wisdom!  So grateful for this forum. 

stairs.plan

[DefinedDesign]

15 hours ago, solver said:

Use landings for the first several steps. They may be shaped around the wall.

Thank you so much Eric! - A good part of the day spent getting to this point - any thoughts on how to get the hand rail to connect to the wall at the bottom? If I move the wall under the steps forward it creates another wall to the left of the existing wall.  

[jtcapa1]

Looks great Lisa,

It is one of the fun things about using a great 3d modeling program like Chief, but I honestly spend way too much time getting it to look so pretty like yours.

I hear a voice in my head constantly saying; " stop, stop, move on, don't waste anymore time!"

which I generally ignore and get lost in the details...

[DefinedDesign]

On 11/15/2023 at 7:49 PM, solver said:

Drop it down, and make the railing taller to compensate. Add another tread at the bottom. Turn off the railing you have now.

Thanks Eric, so I got to the drop it down part.  The copied stairs already is dropped down below the original stairs.  I added another step to the copy, turned the railing off on the original stairs.  Not quite understanding what you mean by 'make the railing taller to compensate?