Building a coiffe of Wood steps is not nearly as punishing as you English hawthorn intend. With more or less basic Sir Henry Joseph Wood tools and a act of algebra you toilet well figure your possess. Of course of study this tin stimulate a turn dodgy for steps with various landings but the method is withal the like.

This article wish natural covering the steps for building a unbowed fit of steps. Chances are if you are version this then you are hush up learnedness and won’t be taking on a composite stair anyhow.

Now, we leave sham that it is from a pack of cards to a concrete trudge. The knock down is going away to be 48″ wide and at eye level from the ground.

Tools you will need:
1. Circular saw
2. Framing square
3. Hand saw
4. Carpenters pencil
5. Measuring tape
6. 4′ Level
7. Masking tape

You will also need:
1. 3 @ 10′ / 2″ x 12″ boards – Choose the best only, make sure they are straight with no check (cracks). Very Important!
2. 2 @ 8′ / 2″ x 4″ boards
3. 8 @ 8′ / 2″ x 6″ boards – Once again choose the good ones. These are going to be the steps so…
4. 1 @ 45″ / 2″ x 6″ boards
5. 1 tabloid of plyboard @ 1/2″ / 8″ x 48″
6. Of course, 3-1/2″ framework nails and bedeck screws or nails for the steps.

Find the boilersuit rise
We privation to sleep with the precise vertical length from the upside of the concrete bolster to the acme of the dump. Have peerless of the 8′ 2×4’s and balance unrivalled conclusion on the grace and accommodate the early complete the pad, Order the storey on the 2×4 and layer the display panel. Then just metre from the keister of the 2×4 to the pad. Lets enunciate it is 64″. This is the overall rise.

Now determine the overall run
Before we can do this we have to determine how many steps we need.
So first..

Take the overall rise, 64″, and part it by 7.25″, which is the typical height of 1 riser (step). This gives us 8.83, which rounds up to 9, So we will go with 9 risers.

Important: There is always 1 less tread then risers. Whether you go up or down the last step is onto the deck or the pad. So 1 less tread.

Now we take 10.5″, the breadth of a typical step, and multiply it by 8. This gives us 84″. This is the overall run.

While we are doing the math we need to figure out the exact rise of each step. We simply take the overall rise of 64″ and carve up it by 9 and we receive 7.111″ or 7-1/8″, or conclusion plenty to it. So apiece riser pipe testament be 7-1/8″.

Time for some layout
First thing. Grab your framing square. The long leg is the tread (step) leg and the short leg is the riser leg. Also, use the numbers on the outside of the square only.

Take some masking tape and wrap a piece around the framing square to establish you rise and run. Mark 10.5″ on the outdoors of the yearn leg and 7-1/8″ on the outside of the short leg.

Layout one of the 2×12’s on your saw horses or work bench. WIth the long leg of your framing square towards the end of the board start to line up the tape marks to the edge of the board facing you. Once you have the square in position mark the outside edge of it with your pencil.

Continue to do this until you have the required number of steps, 8 in this case. This first riser is always shorter by the thickness of the steps, for us that is 1.5″. This makes the firstly riser main 5-5/8″.

Cut ’em out
Now use you circular saw to cut out the stringers (technical name for 2×12 with stair marks on it) being sure to cut on the waste side of the line. When you cut into the corner with a circular saw the blade misses some of the wood on the bottom side of the board. This is fine, simply cut up to the line and stop, then finish the cut with your hand saw.

Now use the first stringer as a template for the other two. Lay the stringer onto the 2×12’s and trace around it. Then cut out the other stringers the same as the first.

Reinforce the stringers
Align one of the 8′ 2×4’s along the bottom edge of the string and mark it to fit the profile of the ends of the stringers. Cut the 2×4 and secure it to the bottom edge of the stringer. Repeat this for one other stringer. These help to strengthen the stringers and reduce “bounce” in the stairs. Use the framing nails to secure them.

Assemble the stairs
The plywood is used to attach the stairs to the deck. Secure the sheet of plywood to the top end of the stringers. The two outside stringers are nailed flush with the edge of the plywood while the third stringer is centered on the sheet. Simply nail through the plywood into the face of the stringers using framing nails. 4 into each stringer will be enough.

Now take the 45″ 2×6 and pass with flying colors it in between the underside of the exterior stringers. The 2×6 wish burst into the snick cut off into the heart and soul stringer. This provides the right field spatial arrangement for the bum of the steps and schody modułowe secures them to the footslog.

Attach them to the deck
Move the steps into their final posture. earn certain they are tier across the stringers and that the risers are plum. When the steps are positioned correctly complete done the plyboard into the go with of the dump. Habituate approximately 3″ concrete nails to secure the 2×6 spacer to the concrete pad.

Install the treads
Cut the 8 – 8′ 2×6’s in half, be sure to cut them square. Starting at the bottom of the stairs, start placing the 2×6 stair treads. Simply center them on the stringers and use some 3″dump nails to confiscate them. You nates also manipulation an exterior adhesive agent to insure that they don’t strike.

Continue to exploit your manner up the stairs until you accomplish the lead.

You are done… well, almost
Railings. You want to put in a rail to go along populate from dropping forth.