Building 6x6 Landscape Stairs (Time Lapse)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- Time Lapse of 5 days building a set of landscape stairs into a hillside. Steps were constructed out of pressure treated ground contact rated 6x6 atop a gravel bed to promote water drainage. Then the hillside was backfilled and the steps were capped in gravel.
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What?! This is, by far, my favorite hillside stair building video! I've been watching tons of them because it's my summer project to get to the creek. I might only get a couple of stairs a week on my own. I have no experience but I'm handy and reasonably strong for my age. This one is filled under inspiration, simple design, and getting it done.
I'll get a little help here and there for sure but I'm prepared for a long haul. Just in case. 😁
Not one word, but the most helpful video I’ve seen yet!
Nice details. I especially like the inside corner at 2:25. Many people overlook this and skew the width when making a directional change. Many more kudos to you.
Personally, I prefer non-pressure treated lumber and add half lap joints to tie the unit together. Help fight the expansive soils we encounter.
more videos! Show the world good work that they may imitate and improve!
We used a combination of rebar to go through the bottom courses into the ground to help hold them in place and then 10" structural screws to connect all wood to wood joints.
Hi, Thank you for the video. I'm a beginner with these things and can't seem to pause at the right moment to see it in the video- when you say "through the bottom courses" does this mean that you drove the rebar through the wood that we can see? Or is it in somewhere else?
These steps were built using standard 6x6 pressure treated lumber with a 40" width. The length of the sides (the sleepers) depends on your hill slope but they need to be partially buried to work. One side of these stairs was at grade while the other was up to 2 feet above grade. If you can go "straight" into the hillside then each sleeper will be the same length, but if you have to go "diagonal" like these then one side will need to be much longer to remain below ground at the ends.
Brilliant. It's the philosophy of stair building you're showing in this time lapse video. You just measure as you go and work with the hill. Some of the viewers here want the step-by-step instructions (no pun), but you're showing that's not the point.
I think the music helped my sinus problem 👍🏽
Really sweet video, was waiting to see how the tree at the top was going to be dealt with. Great idea, now please slow the video down x100 and show us how you did it all. Looks great.
Thanks! I'm halfway through the project. I went 36 inches wide. They look great so far. Your video helped me a ton. Thanks again!
That's the staircase I have been looking for....thank you for the vid
Very good. Im doing only a 2 step in my garden but this has helped immensely.
Hello - Excellent video. I am doing the same project with my son this summer. Over 60 foot rise. Have you posted a non-time lapsed video for just one or two steps? Thanks!
Funny, b/c its full of useful information, even in time lapse...they repeat the same basic process again and again. I'm building one now and it definitely helped me; maybe give it another look?)
Dang, this is some pretty funky music.
This was no small task. More than 100 man-hours (4 man-hours for each step, averaged out). Remember, we did this ourselves at cost ($0 labor). If you were to manage the project and hire unskilled labor, use 6 man-hours per step for budgeting.
Material costs add up quickly, too. In the end, this figured out to be about $100 per step for 6x6, backfill and gravel. Add delivery costs to that.
How did you secure the wood so it won't shift?
How were you attaching the wood together?
What were you using the grinder for?
Looks good!
BTW, I enjoyed the video. Going to do something similar and this helped motivate me. I just need a red hat and a good worker now!
The first step when watching this video: Hit the mute button.
And slow to half speed...but it will be STILL too fast to provide instruction
That same track was used to interrogate prisoners at Gitmo after 911.
Excellent job. Question: Why were you dumping all those stones in the corner at the end? Weird way to finish.
How has the wood held up 6 years later? Any signs of rot in those 6x6s?
TANK YOU VERY MUCH ( the frenchy )
The guy in the red hat must be the project manager / boss.
I think they look great. I am trying to copy your project. I only have about 1/4 of the amount of stairs. Would you please provide your measurements for the timbers? Also, would you tell me the width of your steps, the length of the side timbers and if you used screws or rebar? Thank you and again, great job!
did you use rebar to hold the staris in place?
Im trying to something similar as i like the design. What was the standard tread length? Did this vary if the slope varied? Cant wait to get started! Any other info / tips would be great. Cheers!
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cool time lapse. And I've got to add, your choice of background music is AWESOME. just kidding, it's not. But thank you for sharing your video.
What length was the rebar you used for support? And what size did you use? 1/2" or 1"?
Wow! It took under four minutes to build. Now they will most likely charge as if they worked all day.
At 2:36 something crawls out from behind that tree in the center of the screen and walks up the hill.
You have an incredible attention to detail for spotting that little guy. Had to rewatch 3X to catch it.
BTW, is that a Radiohead soundttrack?
What were the dimensions on the steps and arms?
Is that Deadmau5?
hyow much for that
U need plastic indoors to keep dry but these appear to be outside. U don't need plastic as it can rain outside. No need to be dry there so save the $$$$$
I thought the plastic was weed barrier...no?
Can the music?
Me corrió el Audio
Not to be mean but the time lapse moves SO FAST that it is impossible for me to understand what is happening! Would be so so much better to slow it WAY DOWN at least for a sample section ...Even slowing it to half speed leaves it WAY TO FAST ...thanks for the thought and effort of sharing but I have to thumbs down for it being very little actual help....Can you edit to show just a few stair sections at a reasonable speed??
Music gave me a headache
wtf is this music spose to be
Music sucks !
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