Replaced some concrete steps with a freestanding wood deck / patio. Using Home depot materials and Ryobi tools. To help support the channel donations can be accepted here: www.paypal.me/8bitFlashback
Anyone watching this in 2024 should be made aware that toenailing connections is no longer acceptable with most state building codes afaik. There are metal hangers you can get to attach the stair stringers to the deck/landing.
Nice! 71 YO Nanny (retired NC GC) here back in NC building my final home (HOPE) after Hurricane Ian ruined my house in FL. Love your little deck ideas. TYVM. I have your same Hitachi saw. I love mine and I've put a lot of miles on it. Out of $$ and going to build my own finishing touches to get my final CO. Thanks for the inspiration! I love your channel.😍
You make everything look so easy...that's proof you know what you're doing. I noticed you have over 20,000 subs! Thank you for explaining everything so clearly. Great communicator.
Fabulous video.....thank you so much.....after watching this I have decided that I will use it to do a build on 2 sets of porch stairs on both sides of our mobile home. This video was exactly what I was looking for......can't wait to get started......thanks again.
WOW!!! I can do this myself!!! Thinking I can maybe not cut down the posts but leave them reinforced with top railing, and add some beautiful hook planters to the outsides of them for hanging flowering plants. Done right, could be gorgeous. Since we like to leave the door open with the screen locked, a really nice lattice of some kind would be awesome. In school 50 years ago girls couldn't take auto repair shop or carpentry/woodworking classes. We had to take cooking and dressmaking/sewing classes. That was THEN. This is NOW. And now my husband cooks gourmet dinners, I fly medical emergency helicopters, (yes, still!), he plays designer and I play deckbuilder!!!. Never know where life can lead!! To the best tutorial yet!! Thanks Home Depot!!! AWESOME!!!! TEACHER. THANKS!!!
Very nice. Until I watched this video, I had been debating with myself how to go about doing something very similar in my back door entrance, where the previous owner had the brilliant idea of pouring concrete against the back entrance, in a wooden sided home. And if that was not enough, the concrete he poured is horrible. He used huge stones available at the yard do pour the concrete over. The thing is horrible, out of shape, not square or leveled. This was a very good video. Very educational. I didn't even know concrete post blocks. Glad I caught this video. Thank you.
Really great video. I’ve followed it step by step using the sizes I need for my project. Had some trouble with the angle on the hand rail but I did the best I could. I also used a circular saw on the posts instead of a sawzall. I wasn’t good at using the sawzall free hand.
I need to replace the tiny porch and stairs on the trailer I just bought because they are falling apart! I've already watched several videos but this one is exactly what I'm wanting/needing to build, plus it's explained and demonstrated well enough for me to follow along. Not to mention the fact that I don't feel the need to run out and purchase a ton of special tools. I can literally use the few basics that I already have. This is gonna save me a serious headache and tons of time and money. I'm super excited to build my new stairs and porch now and I'm not feeling intimidated by the project anymore. I've already watched it a couple of times and made my parts list. Wish me luck! Thanks for posting this video.
You make this look so easy. I need to replace my steps at my front door because of termites. Your video will be my model! I hope I can do this justice lol.
Great Great tutorial esp for a dude like myself that is having this type of project coming up this season . the specs are pretty much close to this one, also the breakdown is same a jack hammer for steps. Thank You for the tips esp those shortcuts for ripping the 2x4 as well and more importantly for me the levelong of the square deck platfrom shimmyimg each side and securing/resecuring the sides up lil by lil as u go cool i like that its right in my whellhouse. awesome ty
I hope I can talk the folks I work with into building stairs this way going forward. And the detail you give is perfect. Thanks so much. Subscribed and liked.
Great video and concept. I need a temporary portable porch and steps and this is perfect. I will use it for a portable shooting stand after I finish using it for temporary purposes.
I like the way you built those steps and is going to build one myself for the front of my house, and later have a deck built for the back of the house. I have most of the tools to build the steps and can get the material from the closest Lowe's store to build it.
Excellent video and a lot of good information for a guy like me who is a mechanic and not a carpenter. I will attempt to do this in the spring. Have to knock out a cinder block porch first. Thanks for taking the time to produce the video. Ray
For a Hand Rail on my deck, I took a piece of, Sized to a standard Stair Railing, PVC Conduit. Put a spring inside it and heated it with a heatgun and bent each end down. I made flat spots in the under side of the PVC, by heating it and pressing down with a Two X. I installed railing brackets to the flat spots, and installed the PVC Railing to the deck. I capped both ends, and drilled a 1/8” hole in the underside of the lower cap, for a weep hole. If you don’t have a heat gun you can use a Propane Torch. The trick is to use the side of the flame, and by not touching the PVC with the Flame, heat the PVC.
id put the bannister posts on the outside of the stringers and keep the stairway clear, less chance of kicking/tripping into them when yr carrying tall loads. Rare to see stairs with posts on the inside. Also consider leaving the porch posts tall and putting a roof on it to keep the weather out of the doorway. Use an antifungal sealer on the cuts. Love the look of the wood on the finish. thanks.
Hi doing man, thank so much sharing this kind of videos. Thanks to you my new stairs is done. Following every step from you and I made it.!!!!! Spend around $ 300.00 dollars in materials (home depot) here in texas.
I think im building a similar style front deck, although mine will be a tad bigger and probably twice as high up. Im gunna need some extra supports on the posts, plus I’ll probably use joist hangers to strengthen everything up. I definitely like the simplicity and will use some of these hints. Im planning to build some fencing this summer too, so ill buy extra material and build this as well. Cant wait till this winter is finished
Thanks. I need to build a small landing outside of my back door. The steps broke so it has concrete blocks but I want something to walk out onto so it is a bit safer. This gave me some good ideas-- although I want the steps straight ahead of the door.
I need to build something similar and soon, but I also need it to have a two level ramp that kinda angles around. And steps going both left and right out the door. My project is going to be a wee bit more complicated but be built with the same wood and design choices as seen in this video.
I think I got everything. These prices are based on pressure treated wood at my local Lowes store. Let me know if I missed something or if my count is off. I also plan on using hangers instead of toenailing. You're Welcome. 2x10x8 (X3) $13.88 ea 4x4x6 (x5) $7.57 ea 3" deck screws 1lb box (x3) 4 concrete deck block $6.90 ea 4" lag bolts 3/8 $.45(x20) 3 concrete pavers $1.20ea 4 step stringers (x3) $14.98ea stringer hangers (x3) $1.38 ea 2x6x8 (x10) $6.67ea 2x4x8(x3) $4.67 ea 2x2x36" upright railings (x20) $.87ea Total apx $290
Danggg stuff adds up so quick. I was guessing like 150 lol. I’m doing something like this for a 5th wheel trailer so it’s going to be smaller so hopefully a little cheaper.
Nice but i would have used lag bolts to secure that bottom post to the block. Also you need metal ties for those stringers! Toenails are not good enough. Also i like joist hangers for the deck supports.
+C.L.S. Allinone I plan on doing this in the near future and have a question for you. If I wanted to have an awning over the stairs, could I successfully add them later or do I have to make it part of the initial construction?
This is great, the only thing I need help deciding on what to use on the bottom of the post. I'm building on top of a concrete slab and I heard that you should not put wood directly on concrete because concrete holds water and would rot the wood faster.
This is very useful video. The concrete blocks will help. The area where I want a landing is not level at all so I believe if I just get the blocks level & ground tamped down to be solid I can just adjust the posts. I also want to add a ramp on one side & I'm thinking either using pre-made concrete steps or making box steps. Can the posts be put on the outside of the deck instead of the inside? Or would that make it less stable?
