Deck Built Like a 4-layer Wedding Cake
basswood
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I took a few process pictures of a deck I’m working on. It is a small, 5-sided, entry landing surrounded by 3 stairs. I built the small deck frame, and then made fifteen little stackable stair boxes that bolted together around the perimeter.
This seemed easier than splayed-out stair stringers with compound miters. Total rise is only 25″.
More pics later, after I finish it. Cedar log handrails are on order (they will be bolted onto the house).
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Nice. Your house?
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Thanks, and Nope...the house belongs to a retired Doctor. I'm just the hired help.I would like to make an entry like that for my house though.
Here are some more photos of the little deck/landing with stairs on five sides. Scribing the stairs to the logs was fun.
Looks great!! What material did you use ? How was it fastened?
Dreaded ACQ lumber frame. GRK composite trimhead screws (ACQ approved) hold the decking (Ultradeck Rustic Synthetic) to the frame.The trimhead deck screws are virtually invisible...very close to a consealed fastener look, but much easier.
Edited 7/7/2006 6:14 pm ET by basswood
The special order peeled cedar rails showed up and I put them in this past week, so I took a few more photos:
All right..... I give up.
How'd you get the 'bird's eye view' picture? Drywall stilts? ;)View Image
--"How'd you get the 'bird's eye view' picture?"Steep lot. The bluffs rise 500' above the Mississippi River here. Rain that lands on the bluff-tops drops 500' to reach the River and only another 500' to reach the Gulf Coast.That and I did get on the garage roof to shoot that pic.