Wow! I have been wanting to put steps on my hillside for 33 years but had no clue how to do it. You make it look very do-able, even for this old lady :) thank you so much! They are actually very attractive!
I hope you realize you just showed a million DIYers how to build steps just like these. You did a great job all the way around on this video! Thank you!
Thank you, you made this so easy to follow. I was quoted $1500 for steps and I now see I can do it myself. Thank you so much I will be doing it myself.
This is exactly what I was looking for. The slipping down the slope at the first of the video was hilarious, and relatable. It’s exactly why I was searching how to build stairs into a slope in the first place! Thank you!!
Thank you sooooo much for helping a single mom home owner on a budget solve a problem. My slope is half the size of your but still a pain .😊👍🏽keep the DIY videos coming . Also love the gravel driveway video. I have a 150 foot gravel driveway . It will have to do for now
I love this so much. Several years ago, I bought a home that had an unfinished dirt path to the back fence gate. It got muddy all the time. One day I got sick if it and crafted a beautiful brick and gravel walkway from the patio to the back gate that never got muddy. When I sold the place, the buy mentioned how much they liked the pathway I made.
This REALLY helped me understand how to do this. Thank you for posting an inexpensive, not too laborious process! Happy my slopes now have a beautiful alternative to high quoted costs---steps on a budget.
I'd add some buried pipe along the top and down the sides to help water drain away from the blocks, otherwise over the years you might see a slump. The size of the pavers though, you might get away with it but water is the enemy when dealing with gradients. It keeps washing things from top to bottom unless its given an easy way down that bypasses all the hard work. That and/or add some plants along the side to stabilise the soil
The correct way is actually putting the drainage down the middle of that area first, not the sides. Otherwise you're not addressing the water seeping into the middle which can then freeze (frost heave) but some drainage is better than no drainage.
Thank you very much for making this video. I'll be using single pavers for a small incline from the sidewalk up to my front door. Why the builder had such a steep incline is beyond me, forcing people to walk up the driveway to get to the front door. I was just unsure how to dig out the hill the way you did and you gave me some great ideas.
Thanks for keeping it real and sharing your project to make it where I now feel I as a woman can even do it. Your final result is exactly what I was looking for. Great instructions and enjoyed the learn.
Очень интересное решение. Не сильно затратно, просто замечательно. Обязательно сделаю у себя. Посмотрим как будет стоять через пару зим. Спасибо. Вы молодец.
I like that you made the tread area wide. This wide is more natural for stride. With 12" and under, a person has to contract their movements when going up or down.
I have a project like this to do on my yard. I keep getting hung up on the geometry- you know rise&run, slope, etc. Yet, here this guy does a great job - on the fly!!! Kudos
Same here. I have a long steep hill and I used wood pre cut stringers for the first 15 steps and what this gut used for the remaining 15 steps that curve at the bottom. I have torn it out at least 3 times only to have the end result look like crap and as dangerous as it can get. A year later and I have torn it out again. impossible!!
Stakes driven down in the brick holes to help limit any movement from heavy rain ect would be the only thing I’d do different, fantastic look. I’m stealing your idea. Great vid.
Exactly. Depending on the climate, especially freeze thaw and rain, those might move and shift around a bit. But what is now there can be realigned in a weekend if needed in 10 years.
Easy to make when you have such a soft field, more difficult to make when it's a rocky area. Anyway, great work, very instructive. Thanks for sharing it with all of us.
Thank you for sharing your project with us! I love how you just did it with some planning but nothing too much! we have a hill that needs some stairs so we can get to the rest of our back yard. Keep up the DIY!!
Thank you so much for posting this video-and keeping the the very important stages/process of how you problem solved along the way! We now own a house with a steeply sloped backyard in dire need of some erosion-stemming upgrades to the original access routes before the rain season(s!) start up again next month. Your design-build experience and process just saved me so much time and sanity! Much appreciated!
Do you actually own the home or are you still buying it..? Remember you don't own a thing until you paid for the thing. And if you owe taxes then you will never own the property. It's just a cheap rent. Age 65 homeowner / cheap renter myself. I pay a dollar a week for my home. 0.06 cents is what the buying power of a dollar is. So $52 is in reality, $8.66 per- year in "taxes" or rent.
I came for the stairs , ill subscribe because you sound like me "im never getting it done today" "this is harder then i thought " "it worked better last time" hahah brother from another mother!
These are perfect! I hope your wife appreciates your hard work and wanting to make things look nice and learning how to do it right - so many husbands just say hire someone else 😒
Great video! I'm probably going to do something similar. I couldn't tell if you used rebar to anchor the cinder blocks to the ground. The ones you used also had horizontal slots that you can slip a piece of rebar into. I would anchor each step into the ground and to each other by tying the rebar together. This will keep it from shifting as the soil shifts throughout the years.
Thanking for the video. Going to the backyard slopped down on both sides of my house and it gets very slippery and muddy most of the times so now with your help I can solve this problem finally myself
Thanks so much! This gives me a better idea of what to do with our far back yard which is very sloped. I was trying to think of ways that were not too expensive and labor intensive and I think your idea is a good one. Now to get started…
Thank you for sharing how you did this. Figuring this out on a small budget is hard enough. Nice to have a direction to adapt to my space. I won't have a way to cut stone but I think I can find a alternative anyway. Saving this video!
This is a great job. Totally completed in one step. Some people trying to do this that aren’t as good with all hand tools may try renting a small demo hammer with a spade on it for the clay. It works good for that type of job where you don’t want to over dig too much. And that rock is really important. Home Depot sells round pea gravel in bags. It doesn’t work as a base as well as the angular crushed stuff you used here.
I put wood stairs in a similar spot. So much easier and water isn't a problem. If I was going to do them on the ground I think I'd pour concrete. Those look like a trip hazard, especially as they settle. They look good though.
Thank you! I used to have a masonry chisel that I used when I built some steps like this at another house. I couldn’t find it so I just used an old wood chisel I had. It worked great!
@@BrantleyBlended I'm doing my garden up here in the UK and we moved a step... 2" thick paving slab to a new position and it was too big - having seen you do it in your vid we had a go with our slab and it worked a treat! We used a cold chisel, took 10 mins or so, but just a line across both sides and it just feel in half - would never have had the confidence to do it without seeing you do it, cheers!
Nice video enjoyed it very much. you're a show me how to do steps very easily. "well maybe" I think I'll get the stone the size of the steps then I don't have to cut out! 👏👍
Wow! I have been wanting to put steps on my hillside for 33 years but had no clue how to do it. You make it look very do-able, even for this old lady :) thank you so much! They are actually very attractive!
This is by far the most useful video I've found on building steps into a hill. Straight to the point, short and detailed. Well done and thank you!
Great job. You made it look easy. I'm glad this is the video that popped up on Google entry. Thank you for sharing.
I hope you realize you just showed a million DIYers how to build steps just like these. You did a great job all the way around on this video! Thank you!
and these step will fall apart in two years
agreed. i was surprised he only anchored the bottom step. id love to see an update of them now
@@rickdeckard1075 why so? Care to explain?
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Those 5 and the other 3 need a grasp able hand rail..
I've watched tonnes of videos on building steps in a short slope and this is far and away the most useful. Thank you from the Scottish Highlands!
So helpful that you showed the real nitty-gritty, like the tamper and scoring the caps to cut them down to size. Thank you!
I like how honest you are about the difficulty and frustration. Just like a normal person doing a DIY job. Also talking about what your are thinking .
Thank you, you made this so easy to follow. I was quoted $1500 for steps and I now see I can do it myself. Thank you so much I will be doing it myself.
This is exactly what I was looking for. The slipping down the slope at the first of the video was hilarious, and relatable. It’s exactly why I was searching how to build stairs into a slope in the first place! Thank you!!
Thank you sooooo much for helping a single mom home owner on a budget solve a problem. My slope is half the size of your but still a pain .😊👍🏽keep the DIY videos coming . Also love the gravel driveway video. I have a 150 foot gravel driveway . It will have to do for now
I love this so much. Several years ago, I bought a home that had an unfinished dirt path to the back fence gate. It got muddy all the time. One day I got sick if it and crafted a beautiful brick and gravel walkway from the patio to the back gate that never got muddy. When I sold the place, the buy mentioned how much they liked the pathway I made.
This REALLY helped me understand how to do this. Thank you for posting an inexpensive, not too laborious process! Happy my slopes now have a beautiful alternative to high quoted costs---steps on a budget.
I'd add some buried pipe along the top and down the sides to help water drain away from the blocks, otherwise over the years you might see a slump. The size of the pavers though, you might get away with it but water is the enemy when dealing with gradients. It keeps washing things from top to bottom unless its given an easy way down that bypasses all the hard work. That and/or add some plants along the side to stabilise the soil
The correct way is actually putting the drainage down the middle of that area first, not the sides. Otherwise you're not addressing the water seeping into the middle which can then freeze (frost heave) but some drainage is better than no drainage.
Thank you very much for making this video. I'll be using single pavers for a small incline from the sidewalk up to my front door. Why the builder had such a steep incline is beyond me, forcing people to walk up the driveway to get to the front door. I was just unsure how to dig out the hill the way you did and you gave me some great ideas.
Thanks for keeping it real and sharing your project to make it where I now feel I as a woman can even do it. Your final result is exactly what I was looking for. Great instructions and enjoyed the learn.
That’s sexist
@@mantwaan I guess these large landscape stones I need for my raised garden are sexist.
@@badcatmadcat7694Yes if you can't lift them they are sexist stones and you must sue the quarry for everything they've got😂😂😂
Очень интересное решение. Не сильно затратно, просто замечательно. Обязательно сделаю у себя. Посмотрим как будет стоять через пару зим.
Спасибо. Вы молодец.
My daughter and 13 year old grandson built these for me. Thank you so much for the idea. Would love to send a picture.... We used retaining wall caps.
I like that you made the tread area wide. This wide is more natural for stride. With 12" and under, a person has to contract their movements when going up or down.
I have a project like this to do on my yard. I keep getting hung up on the geometry- you know rise&run, slope, etc. Yet, here this guy does a great job - on the fly!!! Kudos
Use 3/4 in. Rock it compacts better
Same here. I have a long steep hill and I used wood pre cut stringers for the first 15 steps and what this gut used for the remaining 15 steps that curve at the bottom. I have torn it out at least 3 times only to have the end result look like crap and as dangerous as it can get. A year later and I have torn it out again. impossible!!
❓Hello and thank you so much for this. How have these held up?
I close on an older historic home soon and have a hilly backyard. Thank you so very much for this! Single and determined to DIY. 🤗
Nice !! Great job. Thanks for filming
I have that project pending right now. Your video gave me another take on how to do it. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks to you l was able to install steps on my hill. But instead of gravel l used 16"×7" pavers! Landscapers quote was $4000 Thank you sir!
Wish could show you a picture how they turned out!
When your stairs begin to fail after the first winter you will see why pros gave you that quote,
Thanks for sharing, this has been by far the most non technical video on making garden steps I have come across :) - Thank you!
I like this design, looks simpler than a lot of other ones which involved burying wood deeper into the hill, a lot more digging, etc.
So, now that it's 3 years later, how have these held up for you?
Stakes driven down in the brick holes to help limit any movement from heavy rain ect would be the only thing I’d do different, fantastic look. I’m stealing your idea. Great vid.
You can see the blocks were designed with that in mind. There're 2 round holes in each to drive in a paver spike or a length of rebar.
Yeah...I think I would have put some rebar stakes in....but pretty impressive job!
@@lis819 agreed. my lot is flat, but if I ever need exterior steps, I'm doing something like this (but with rebar lol)
Exactly. Depending on the climate, especially freeze thaw and rain, those might move and shift around a bit. But what is now there can be realigned in a weekend if needed in 10 years.
Easy to make when you have such a soft field, more difficult to make when it's a rocky area. Anyway, great work, very instructive. Thanks for sharing it with all of us.
Nice careful shovel work. Surgical! Well done.
Thank you for sharing your project with us! I love how you just did it with some planning but nothing too much! we have a hill that needs some stairs so we can get to the rest of our back yard. Keep up the DIY!!
I love it! Very smooth! Now I have mit red line for our steps in the garden! THX for sharing!!!!
Просто и со вкусом! Возьму общую идею, подстрою под себя! Молодец.
Forget about the rot! This is a great idea for a rental property or short term deck. I’m going to try this. Thank you for sharing this idea ❤
Thanks for making a video that even a man can do!
Thank you so much for posting this video-and keeping the the very important stages/process of how you problem solved along the way! We now own a house with a steeply sloped backyard in dire need of some erosion-stemming upgrades to the original access routes before the rain season(s!) start up again next month. Your design-build experience and process just saved me so much time and sanity! Much appreciated!
Do you actually own the home or are you still buying it..? Remember you don't own a thing until you paid for the thing. And if you owe taxes then you will never own the property.
It's just a cheap rent. Age 65 homeowner / cheap renter myself.
I pay a dollar a week for my home.
0.06 cents is what the buying power of a dollar is. So $52 is in reality, $8.66 per- year in "taxes" or rent.
I came for the stairs , ill subscribe because you sound like me "im never getting it done today" "this is harder then i thought " "it worked better last time" hahah brother from another mother!
Thanks for this idea. We are on a budget and need steps up to my moms house on a wicked steep hill. Great video
The steps turned out great. I like the way you showed the process too. Well done!
Dude I’m so jealous of how soft y’all’s dirt is. I live in NC, where it about takes dynamite to get through some of the soil. It’s all clay.
Mine too and damn it took me 30 mins to dig one hole. My friend wasn’t lucky too, his land is full of rocks and stones.
Well be glad because in a few years after constantly going up and down those steps it'll eventually sink and become uneven.
Me, too. I got rock and almost no soil.
Got rocks and pine tree roots.
Haha i hear you. Same in western PA. all clay, and tree root.
I felt very satisfied watching you climb those steps!’
Thanks buddy.
You just gave me the confidence to go ahead.
You made a lovely stair. Well done.
Beautiful job! Inspired me to my own... Hopefully easier since the hill is sandysoil! Thanks for posting this video!
Thank you! I need to make some steps into a incline behind my house and the side of my house. I had no idea where to start. This is a big help.
Weldone!!! I'm designing a grotto seating for my church and I'm going to use this tactic. Thank you!
Looks great, interesting to me how you ppl can see the end from the beginning and it’s perfect
it's a beautiful privilege to have a house in which to make a castle.
Just what i needed. Thanks for the video.
Haha, I would die for dirt like that. Here in New England every foot is a 200lb boulder.
Same here in Western Washington. Lol.
I love the realness of this video. Thank you for making it. I am going to attempt these in my hillside that is washing out.
Thank you for this! I'm doing this in Spring in my backyard
Nice job!
Thank you...we are putting in stairs similar to these. Yours is the best video I've seen so far. Inspired us..🙂
Glad I found this video. I have a lower garden behind a grain bin. A set of curved steps will be nice.
So much nicer than concrete. Well done.
These are perfect! I hope your wife appreciates your hard work and wanting to make things look nice and learning how to do it right - so many husbands just say hire someone else 😒
It s okay to hire someone else if your husband s not a handy man and s a computer programmer or a dentist
I'm less intimidated now after watching your video. I was on the fence of whether to get a contractor to do it. I think I'm going to try this now.
one thing I would add is a weed barrier. Run it under all the blocks and gravel.
Great job thank you!
Great video! I'm probably going to do something similar. I couldn't tell if you used rebar to anchor the cinder blocks to the ground. The ones you used also had horizontal slots that you can slip a piece of rebar into. I would anchor each step into the ground and to each other by tying the rebar together. This will keep it from shifting as the soil shifts throughout the years.
Yeah, blocks and concrete with rebar anchored down would be much better. Problem is not everyone has a mixer or knows someone who has one!
If you want add concrete, the amount of concrete needed for this wouldn’t be large. You would be the mixer with your shovel
@@renerodriguez2926fill the blocks with concrete before putting on the caps?
Thanking for the video. Going to the backyard slopped down on both sides of my house and it gets very slippery and muddy most of the times so now with your help I can solve this problem finally myself
Thanks so much! This gives me a better idea of what to do with our far back yard which is very sloped. I was trying to think of ways that were not too expensive and labor intensive and I think your idea is a good one. Now to get started…
Thanks. This is so helpful for me to visualize what I need.
That's a pretty nice real-world solution. You'll have to redo it eventually but much quicker and visually appealing the way you did it vs concrete.
Thank you for sharing how you did this. Figuring this out on a small budget is hard enough. Nice to have a direction to adapt to my space. I won't have a way to cut stone but I think I can find a alternative anyway. Saving this video!
Excellent job! Some of the best projects come from winging it! It's also creative and fun.
Very nice and simple. Thanks!
Thank you so much! I'm heading to Lowe's right now..
2yrs later , can we get an update? I dont see these steps lasting with any type of normal use.
Wow... That is so simple but works so well!
This is a great job. Totally completed in one step. Some people trying to do this that aren’t as good with all hand tools may try renting a small demo hammer with a spade on it for the clay. It works good for that type of job where you don’t want to over dig too much. And that rock is really important. Home Depot sells round pea gravel in bags. It doesn’t work as a base as well as the angular crushed stuff you used here.
Thnk you so much for this class....now...I can do it
simple and nice, only nice to know size between steps
I enjoyed this video. Very nice job.
thanks Brantley, i found them at lowes. wish me luck i'm in the northeast so digging will be tough.
Building ours today
Nice..this looks perfect idea for my back home hill..its nearly the same high❤😂....tq
your idea is very good
That’s the EXACT project that I need to do! Thanks for that!
Rail road ties are heavy but they make awesome steps,
wow! I wish I had these skills.. looks great!
Looks great, excellent instructions.
bro them steps are lit. helluva job.
Awesome build and great instructions!
I put wood stairs in a similar spot. So much easier and water isn't a problem. If I was going to do them on the ground I think I'd pour concrete. Those look like a trip hazard, especially as they settle. They look good though.
Excellent vision and execution. Thanks I’m advance.
wow really nice job thanks for the video makes me wonder where the heck can I put those steps on my property.
Amazing video this helped so much
Wow... I need to try this on my little hill
Great job !
How have the settled over the last few years? Are they still going strong?
Awesome diy steps! I've been searching for something like this. Even better coming from a DAWG! Looks great- Go Dawgs!! ❤️🖤
Great job man...with love from Ireland
Subscribed! Always learn more when I watch your videos! Thanks, J
Chisel work was impressive!
Thank you! I used to have a masonry chisel that I used when I built some steps like this at another house. I couldn’t find it so I just used an old wood chisel I had. It worked great!
@@BrantleyBlended I'm doing my garden up here in the UK and we moved a step... 2" thick paving slab to a new position and it was too big - having seen you do it in your vid we had a go with our slab and it worked a treat! We used a cold chisel, took 10 mins or so, but just a line across both sides and it just feel in half - would never have had the confidence to do it without seeing you do it, cheers!
Love the over dramatized hill at the beginning.
Great design. Thanks for sharing
I likey and I'm going to try it. Thanks for the inspiration ❤
Thankyou for sharing this video with us🙂
Excellent job.
Nice video enjoyed it very much. you're a show me how to do steps very easily. "well maybe"
I think I'll get the stone the size of the steps then I don't have to cut out! 👏👍
Thanks a lot!! I can’t wait to build this buy the lake side