How To Set Concrete Steps

Building wood steps over concrete steps made a huge touch for our farmhouse front porch renovation. Learn the process and materials we used to complete this projection.

Covering concrete steps with wood

When I was thinking through the details for our farmhouse forepart porch makeover, I knew from the very starting time we would want to practise something to makeover the physical steps.

At start I wanted to paint them white, simply when we decided to supplant all the porch flooring, I wanted the treads to match new forest. Also, I wasn't sure information technology would be very practical to have white exterior steps. I saw a lot of power washing in our futurity!

So, we decided to observe a way to cover the physical steps with wood. I knew this would make them look brand new, and allow usa to use the exact aforementioned woods for the treads as we had used for the porch flooring.

Nosotros also decided to make the steps wider, to brand for a more chiliad entrance.

The whole procedure of building wood steps over concrete porch steps was fashion easier than I expected, and made such a dramatic deviation.

I take already had tons of questions virtually our new steps, since revealing our farmhouse front end porch makeover a few weeks ago, so I decided it was time to give a few more details on the projection.

Patently all porches are a footling different, so the measurements and process volition vary slightly, but my promise is that, by sharing photos of the procedure, my dear readers, or your contractors, can mimic the process and recreate the same look for your physical steps.

The process

To begin this project, nosotros purchased a couple of 4-Stride Stair Stringers to put on the outside of the old steps. To brand our stairs wider, we placed them most a foot out on either side of the stairs. We screwed four 1″ by eight″ treated yellow pine boards into the forepart of the stringers to create the new wood risers.

We ran the new wooden railings, which we used to supplant the iron ones that were there before, just inside the new woods steps. The goal was to take the 6″ by 6″ beam at the bottom of the railing  line up with 6″ by 6″ porch support axle at the meridian.

I'm so glad nosotros did, too, considering I feel like it really opens the porch up and makes it wait larger!

More photos

Here are more photos to requite you lot a better idea of the process, and how everything was laid out before adding the treads.

For the treads, nosotros used the same yellow pino deck board as we used for the porch floor.

On the offset step, we had to trim one of the tread boards to 6″ broad,  so there wouldn't be also much overhang. For the rest of the treads, the we pushed excess underneath the previous riser.

I know my husband will make fun of me if he reads this mail, because I grabbed my sewing measuring tape, instead of a proper tape measure. But, you get the point almost the summit treads. And if you look closely to the bottom correct of the photo, you can see how we pushed the tread on the 2d step underneath the riser above it.

Finishing upward

The 1″ by 6″ Treated Pine Deck Boards on the bottom step had to be cut to fit around the bottom railing beam.

After the wood risers and treads were all screwed in, we finished the outsides with the aforementioned Plytanium Siding Console that we used for the porch skirting. We cut it into the same shape every bit the stringers, except extended it all the way to the ground.

I like that information technology looks seamless with the residual of the porch skirting, as if they were always forest.

To cease the project off, we painted the risers with Valspar White Semi-Gloss Exterior Paint and stained the treads with Olympic Maximum Transparent Deck Stain in Canyon Brownish.

I am so glad we went this route for our farmhouse front porch makeover. I venture to say it is the one thing in the renovation that made the well-nigh bear on.

What do you think? Is this a projection you would attempt? Allow me know in the comments below. And cheers for stopping by the farmhouse!

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