I've been searching for a really good video explaining the process for DIY stairs into a slope and your video is by far the best one I've found. Thank you for doing such a splendid job of explaining the cuts, angles, degrees needed to maintain not only the visual continuity but also construction of the stairs. I'm really impressed by the final product. I will be saving your video to use as a reference as I begin my own garden stair project. Thank you again for creating such an informative and helpful video.
This is a fantastic video and earned you a subscription. Thank you so much for all of your hard work in not only building the landscape stairs but also in all the time it took to put this together.
What an impressive project. This video is so much better than the majority of things I have seen on YT. So nice seeing someone put in the effort to make a wonderful and project and instructional video. Well done!
Your video and verbal instructions are beautifully clear, paced well and with superb clarity of audio and visuals .. I'm nominating you for Cannes film festival! LOL. The staircase is a beautiful design, my first thought was 'in my dreams I could make this', but your instructions are so clear and detailed I'm encouraged to have a try. Thank you for your professionalism.
Super nice, incredibly professional and meticulous job. Great tip about using wood preservative on cut ends; I have never seen anyone do that before in a DIY video. Unfortunately, I don't have all the tools to do such a sophisticated project. My only tools for building steps on a slope are a shovel, compound miter saw, drill and level. Thanks for sharing.
Very detailed and precise description and work, just not sure about timber in contact with ground, also the tampering of the soil between the frames will reduce water runoff.
This was an incredible achievement. Definitely a furniture builder at heart. Can't wait to are your approach to other projects.... With that said, I think you made this project take MUCH longer than necessary with your admirably systematic approach. I love it though : )
Great video and what an amazing job you have done, just one question, how is the very first step fixed, just with rebar into the ground as there is nothing to screw into?
Thank you! The pressure treated lumber is from a local lumber store, Dunn Lumber. At my area, all ground contact grade pressure treated lumber has those pattern.
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Very nice project and outcome. We are trying to follow your example. Any guidance for building the base platform in terms of gravel layers and drainage?
Thank you! For the base layer, I just tempered the soil first, then added gravel about 1 inch thick for leveling and drainage purposes. Then I tempered the gravel and put the wood frame onto it.
That is right. The rise of each step is the same. But the widths can be different. One the upper portion steps, the widths are much larger as the slope is more gentle.
Beautiful work! I am just wondering about weeds growing up through the boards? Would it make it better to have some kind of membrane/material under the pea-gravel? Thanks for the great video, I learned a lot. Just curious about the weeds, where I will be building my stairs there are a lot of weeds...
Thank you! It's a good point. I did not think about it when I built the stairs. A layer of weed-barrier under pea gravel would certainly help to reduce the risk of weeds. So far, I have not seen weeds growing through the boards yet (the lower part of my stairs was built last year).
What kind of pressure treated lumber did you use? I don’t think I have a local lumber supplier with PT lumber with that look and style. Did you use ProWood? A type of deck wood? Or just standard PT ground contact lumber? Thanks for an amazing video! I am going to be doing this later this year.
Thank you! What I used is ground contact grade pressure treated wood. My local lumber store has both incised (ground contact grade) and non-incised (not ground contact grade) pressure treated lumbers. Based on their explanation, the incisions allows the preservative to penetrate more deeply into the wood.
Thank you! The total cost is close to $2,000, among which about $1,500 went to pressure treated lumbers. I built this during pandemic when lumber price was way high.
Beautiful job sir. Trust an Asian guy to make everything precise 💪 .. it's annoying me you didn't put a face board at the face of every riser. Even cut the bottom 1/4 inch off .. just to finish it off, even Led light it.
My first question. What chop saw MODEL are you using. I've been looking for a 4" cut saw for a while. A lot of saws are 65 - 75mm cuts. I want 100mm cuts. Thanks in advance.
@@SunridgeStudio Yeah - it just looks different than any pressure treated lumber I've seen. Is it some special species or treatment (or both)? I've not seen that color and texture before and was curious
This kind of incised pressure treated lumber is quite common in my region (pacific northwest). I bought them from here. Just FYI. www.dunnlumber.com/store/Products.aspx?pl1=2343&pg=2392&sort=StockClassSort&direction=asc
The width of the step is 40". The length of the three 4x4 E-legs is 14.5". So the overall dimension of E-frame is 40" x 18" (14.5" + 3.5" for the width of 4x4).
@@JWEX500 You are right. I did not use weed barrier. So far no issue found, as most of the surface is covered by the 2x6 wood. There are only 1/2" gaps in between. I found few very small weeds growing in those 1/2" gaps. I just pulled them out. I believe the seeds of these weeds came from outside, not from below the gravel. So even if I put weed barrier under the gravel, this will still happen.
