Really turned out beautiful. You do a great job going above and beyond for the customer, it's refreshing to see someone take great pride in their work!
Thank you so much for this video, it helped me build a ramp for my wife that was diagnosed with ALS and needed access to house with new wheel chair. You should be proud of the work you do! 👍🏻
Ed, this is such a gift to hear. Thank you so much for sharing. I’m glad to have helped the both of you, even in this small way. Sending peace, sending strength! You should be proud of your deck!
What a gorgeous ramp and step combo! Your design and craftsmanship and materials chosen really added a lot to the architecture of the house. The function is solid but the design for that location and your fine work raised it to another level. And the entire video and your thorough answers to commenters questions has so much useful information. Thank you so very much!
Excellent; just excellent. I will be trying to build a small porch and an 8-feet long wheelchair ramp. This gave me a lot of ideas. Thank you from West Virginia!
Looks gorgeous, man. Nice work. I need to put together something much simpler; still I appreciate seeing how you worked through this. I especially like the wood you chose for the planks. Looks much nicer than typical deck wood we see. Thanks for the upload.
I like your presentation. You talk about how you solve problems, when is good enough and when is not Please consider adding a specific materials list for each job
I love your craftsmanship! It shows your integrity. As a contractor myself, I appreciate the quality and beauty of this project!!! Cheers from Beaverton.
Hey, that’s great to hear from someone local! You can’t always put every bell and whistle into the budget but i definitely felt good about this one. Thanks for the good vibes.
Very nice job. Your smart idea at the starting point of the ramp. Nice design of the railing. Over all finishing looks matching for the existing house. And you do think about the other side look from street. New stairs on the good location. Beautiful job.
I liked this video. I am concerned there isn't a handrail by the steps or guard rail around the edges. Isn't that a requirement? Thank you for posting. Blessings, health, prosperity and peace to you and yours and to all who read this! 😘👍😇💖
Man that turned out nice. Good to know there are people out there that still do the right thing. And I actually like that look better. It’s not a mistake, it’s a solution for the future.
Nice job. That thing is beautiful. Parents are needing one but quotes for modular ramps have been through the roof. With wood prices now a days probably about the same in the end.
Things have certainly taken an incredible turn for the worse since this build. Believe it or not, Ipe used to be flashy, but in my area cedar has come to be twice as much as Ipe this summer. Pressure treated lumber, well, you might as well frame the thing with teak. Ridiculous season we’re in. It’ll pass
To make this project perfect he should have gotten a bag of Portland cement and mixed it to a paint like consistency then used it to paint all the concrete to make it all one uniform color.
Beautiful work!. Can i use "epay?" oil to treat ply wood. My brother in-law helped me build an accessible ramp, used untreated plywood for the base and the ramp.
In this scenario yeah, I just shave the bottom corner at level to land solid on the hanger. At the 1:12 pitch of the ramp it amounts to about 1/4” removed, which is totally fine in my world/mind
Good question! Typically, yes. Anywhere you’re actually attaching to the house, you’ll want to trim the siding all the way back to the sheathing of the house and flash over your ledger board. I have Z flashing up where the front door landing is, but on that downward slope against the house, those are spanning landing to landing, so that joist is not attached to the house. I hovered it 2” off the face of the siding and pushed the decking close, but about 1/2” off the surface of siding so everything can drain
I’m in Portland, OR. That was a pretty rare snow there. Our footings here need to be 24” deep with at least 20” of that below grade. We don’t have a frost line here fortunately. Typically 1-2 days a year with a high below freezing. Thanks for the comment!
Seems, nicely done, ? On your steps? Any nosing, and post to ground, for bouncing, detent notice, I've learned my trades, in carpenter union, apennership, and being competitive , there's a time factor,
We had talked about that and decided with the low height that it wasn’t something they wanted visually. Technically that would be the only thing that isn’t ADA compliant but it works here in Portland if it’s under 30”
