Building Simple Front Porch Stairs
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- čas přidán 25. 10. 2019
- Building a simple set of porch steps: removing the old steps, pouring a concrete pad, hanging stringers, and building railing and newel posts.
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Great work! I cheat also with precut stringers, because I refuse to make my math teacher right in her constantly telling me about math and life skillzzz ha! :D
haha! I had the same teacher: "You're going to need to know all this math someday, I promise you that!" so funny :)
Thank you for showing us each step you took to make this stunning front porch steps and railing. It makes your already beautiful home look so inviting. My old house has the same concrete steps that have sunken on one side. I will save this video for when we are ready to build our new porch steps.
Good to hear it .. replacing those steps will be well worth it when you get to it.
Nice!
Thanks for checking it out!
I like the width of those steps--plus, it all looks original! Nice work!
Nice and wide is good I suppose :)
Beautiful job Spencer!
Thanks! Yeah, they seem pretty happy with it
Store bought stringers!! that is the answer I was looking for
Makes it easier, and easier is often a good thing!
really nice work. The property owners should be happy.
Thanks! I sure hope so :)
Very good job
thanks friend
Awesome Spence.
Thanks!!
Thank you for the video... well done and realistic
Glad you liked it! Thanks for checking it out
Solid build. One thing I have learned and researched extensively, the deck boards are best if you lay them smiling at you like a U; not a frown like an upside down U. The board will most always want to bend out like flattening a U, therefore if it cups, it will cup facing the ground. A book called "Understanding Wood" by R. Bruce Hoadley explains this. I personally have experimented with setting boards out in the elements for a while, only to find this on nearly every one, or they split at the cup... There are debates about this online, but I found out for myself. Look around if you remember, and you will see many cupped porches and decks, and the end grain will not be smiling. Great solid build though! This small of an area shouldn't matter anyway.
Interesting. I've long followed the rule of placing the potential cup down ... or like a frown ... but I've never conducted any experiments. I guess the good thing is that a lot of decking is cut out of the heart wood without much of a smile/frown. Thanks for giving me something to think about!
Thats killer work.
thanks man. nice to see the improvement
Nice work as always!! Nice Video Thanks.
Big thanks!
Looks great!
Thanks man!
Nice job!
Thanks man!
nice stuff man
Thanks for checking it out
wow, what a difference!
Thanks for checking it out!
Nice work
thanks man
Well engineered and constructed. It looks like it belongs there in contrast to the concrete you removed.
Thanks! Yeah, sometimes a good project just blends in and looks like it's always been there :)
Nice video
The steps look nice
Thanks!
You’re a boss 👌
haha! I guess I try
Good Job.
Thanks man!
Looks like they been there for ever a good match up if I wouldn't have seen the removel of old steps never would have known otherwise
That's cool, as I was thinking the same thing: they blend in which was the goal. Thanks for checking it out!
Your welcome
Oh cool bro
Thanks man
Great job buddy looks like it's was built that way back in the day.
Hey when are you thinking about painting the prison bus?
Thanks! Weather and work have been keeping me from that paint job: the bus is prepped and ready to go, but I haven't had time. So now it could be as late as ... spring! Bah! I hope sooner
Good job sir. Always a pleasure to watch. I use to be a helper for a Handyman. I see you are very efficient at a wide array of skills. Is there a trade that you specialized in beforehand or have you just been doing everything since you were young? Thanks
I've never really specialized but can say that I'm happiest when constructing something new. I suppose I'm newest to welding and most familiar with furniture building ... Anyway, thanks for checking it out!
@@metaspencer that's really cool. Keep up the good work.
Very nice job, all around professional and quality job. I am looking to redo my farmhouse stairs to tie into gravel walkway. I do not have a concrete base and hope to not have to put one in but afraid of the dirt or gravel base will erode to a degree. I planned to put 4x4s at the base concreted in and attaching stringers to those. Can you let me know if this will work or other cheap and fast ways of making this work. Thanks
The way I've done that kind of thing is to sink 6x6s into the ground, providing very solid posts that won't move at all
I love it! Nice job. Just one thing please wear a mask to protect your lungs. 💓💓
Good advice!
Great video thanks a lot, I learnt some good tips.
I'm having to replace my steps because they got infested with termites. You're not worried about termites getting into those newel posts? Do you get termites over there? I live in NSW, Australia. They're a big factor in building with timber over here.
Also, I didn't notice you arras the two posts. Any reason? (Arras - meaning to plane the corner off, to avoid splintering. I couldn't find this word online; maybe it's a local term. Or maybe I can't spell :)
Hey man, thanks for checking out the project! Yeah, we don't have much of a termite problem here. I've seen vids of guys building in Australia who use treated wood ... that might keep the bugs away. You can also place the wood up on a sill to keep them away. As for the arras, I usually hit the corners with some sand paper and that's about it. You can certainly plane them down but I don't tend to worry much about that. Take care!
Thanks for the video! I just pulled out some porch stairs that were pretty bad. The bottom of the outside stringers were completely rotted as well as the bottoms of the rail posts. I would like to follow your guidance about the sill and posts but I'm worried about frost heaving. Where did you do this installation? How deep is acceptable to you for the sill and posts? I am in northern NY. Thanks!
This one is in the midwest and 24" is deep enough. I recently installed a deck near Ithaca, NY and went for 36" deep posts ... I actually poured a footer at the bottom of the hole, then installed the post on top of that surrounded by concrete. Good luck with the project!
metaspencer Sweet I just finished the posts and read your post after, I’m glad I went 36”! I also saw another video where the guy put deck screws around the post before putting the concrete in so I did that too...thanks again!
Hay its me gilbert what’s up man I was just wondering what happen to the prison bus
My friend! Good to hear from you. It's been raining and cold here so now I'm not sure if I'll be able to paint that big old bus before spring, but we'll see! I've been taking it out for some spins, and it's driving great.
Really fine work, Spence. Good attention to detail. What brand/kind of sealer did you use? Have you tried the silicone stuff you can put on down to freezing?
I had a concrete guy who thought he knew everything redo the front 3 steps and landing. What a nightmare it turned out to be. They didn't want to do the job until the end of the year (too small for them apparently but they didn't say this up front when they got half the money) then when they poured it, it cracked. Had them do it again (had to wait until the end of the year AGAIN, cracked again in the exact same place!) Holy fuck I wish I went with wood (I almost did it myself from the beginning but concrete is supposed to be so superior and this is a rental property so I wanted it very durable & looking top notch.) Showed up drunk and belligerent. Just the biggest PITA for a relatively small job. No sense of how to deal with the public. I look at it every day, cracked, and I feel like it was a good chunk of money down a bottomless pit. I think I am going to buy some more of that good sealer and try to keep the freeze thaw cycle from clobbering it.
Oh man, I've heard too many horror stories like yours! Everyone is always having to wait for what ends up being bad work. Bummer. For the treads I sealed with Thompsons; for the wood I used a polyurethane product that is paintable and very flexible. I'll have to check out that freeze-able silicone goop you mention. Anways, always good hearing from ya!
Nice work !, I am in NE Iowa, And have the same cement 3 step steps around 7"long, Im too lazy to try to break them up, They set on sidewalk going out about 25" to the street, its old, and where the steps set on the walk, is right und the drip edge for the porch, Never reall dries out, Winter water and ice is pushing everything down, and looks bad and unsafe, , There is gutter but it still drips, I am no carpenter, and have a guy removing all the cement and steps this week, and poring new siwalk the same as the old, so I wil build new step from wood, Question, How do I stop the drip from hitting the steps and freezing? extend the roof line out? Like I said, I am no carpenter
I usually manage to take care of drips like that with a short gutter, drip edge, or water diverter (just some aluminum channel, screwed or nailed in place. I would think that extending the roof line would be overkill ... I wish I could help you out with it! good luck
@@metaspencer Yea, there is gutter all the way across, but for some reason it still drips right on the steps
Nice job. Gotta replace porch stairs...
Question. I worry about burying any wood in the ground here. Termites, rot.
Is it acceptable to pour a foundation of concrete or lay a row of pavers or bricks for the posts to be bolted onto like you would for a deck, as well as the stringers?
For fence posts, an old farmer told us years ago to use packed sand, not concrete, around them. We auger a hole 2ft deep here. Despite a lot of clay in our soil, it seems this drains away, where concrete holds water against the post, or so he said. (Even if you slope the top of the concrete away from the post.).
So on our first fence, we followed his advice and have never lost a fence post on 6ft high fences in 40 years... while neighbors lost theirs snapping off in high winds, tornadoes, but also from the posts rotting off.
Don't know if this will be applicable to stair posts. Would like to keep them above ground. That may be dumb. I hear you, they need to be sturdy. Thanks for the video.
I'd done stair posts (newel posts) above ground using brackets ... just keep in mind that they get a lot of leverage up on top when people push and pull on them, so framing well off the porch is essential. Sounds like a good plan!
@@metaspencer thanks very much for sharing your experience with these types of projects.
That dog. Lol
haha ... I know! very odd ... walks by at the same time each day
Dude! Where's the closing shot showing the finished painted stairs?? We didn't get to see your great work properly in all its completed glory
I guess it has to be left to the imagination :)
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Always good to hear from you!
Can you tell how much you charge customer for this job?
That would depend on the area, cost of living, site, and so much more. Could be between $500 and $5k depending on those factors
Can you build my porch steps?
Sounds fun!!
what's that blurry ness in the middle. the music doesn't help....
Things got blurry? Maybe I had some water on my lens or something ...
What was wrong with the original steps? Why not refurbish and dress those up, I wish I had such longlasting rot free steps.
The homeowner just wanted a change … I can see your point!
Be my teacher
:)