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Forms are all set for the concrete pour tomorrow.
These are not normal stairs. They are floating sections that have a cantilever overhang to give them the appearance of floating. Also they are spaced out by the width of the 2x6 form since that's the look my brother wanted. There are other ways to do cantilever stairs without the gap but this is how we did it.
There are a number of challenges with this lot and we faced a couple of options for addressing them. Mainly, keeping the stair riser the same height meant adjustment of the step length when the stairs were at too steep of an angle. Since the angle changed, this seemed to make the most sense. There are a few shorter steps at the bottom and then two longer steps in the middle, but otherwise generally kept the same size.
The pour should be right around 6 yards but I ordered 7 yards. We're going with 3000psi pea gravel with fiber reinforcement. This is much to the dismay of the big rock fans but I found that virtually every contractor around here uses pea gravel for steps as it pumps easier and is easier to work.
These are not normal stairs. They are floating sections that have a cantilever overhang to give them the appearance of floating. Also they are spaced out by the width of the 2x6 form since that's the look my brother wanted. There are other ways to do cantilever stairs without the gap but this is how we did it.
There are a number of challenges with this lot and we faced a couple of options for addressing them. Mainly, keeping the stair riser the same height meant adjustment of the step length when the stairs were at too steep of an angle. Since the angle changed, this seemed to make the most sense. There are a few shorter steps at the bottom and then two longer steps in the middle, but otherwise generally kept the same size.
The pour should be right around 6 yards but I ordered 7 yards. We're going with 3000psi pea gravel with fiber reinforcement. This is much to the dismay of the big rock fans but I found that virtually every contractor around here uses pea gravel for steps as it pumps easier and is easier to work.
