This will be used to fasten the stairs to the concrete pad.
Attaching deck stairs to concrete pad.
On the decks i built in the past i never gave much thought to how secure the connection was between the stairs and the deck frame.
Several building manufacturers make hangers that you can use to fasten stair stringers to concrete.
When building a landing for deck stairs typical codes require the pad to extend beyond the steps about 36 inches behind the steps about 12 inches and on the sides of the steps about 6 inches.
If you attach the bottom end of your stringers directly to the concrete footing pad that long stretch of open wood grain will absorb water and rot even with.
Determine what type of landing you are going to have.
However if you are landing on the yard you may want to install paver blocks or fill the area with compacted gravel to promote drainage.
Each tread is made of two lengths of 2x6 board.
Installing a multi color deck over concrete.
One of the easiest ways to attach deck stair footings to concrete is through the base plate.
Guertin also explains how he pours a concrete stair landing pad and how he attaches the bottom of the stairs to that.
Attaching deck stairs to footings.
If no concrete pier is used the post should bear on the footing and stringers should bear on 2x4 blocking fastened to 4x4 posts with 8x3 1 2 screws or 16d nails.
Place the board between the stringers and attach to stringers with 3 galvanized deck screws.
In order for a wooden stairway to be safe the stringers support boards should be securely fastened to both the upper and lower floors.
These hangers are adjustable to fit most types of wood structured stairs.
Attach the 2x6 board to concrete pad with masonry anchors.
If you are landing on a concrete pad or a patio this should not be a problem.
If the stairs are resting on a concrete slab or a patio then the slab or patio should also be built with a similar foundation to resist frost movement.
If you re installing two different colors of boards for your deck then you can screw the accent color boards into place temporarily to act as guides for the primary color boards.
A typical pad has a 4 inch layer of gravel underneath and about 4 inches of concrete on top.
The hangers are fitted to the back edge of the stringer and then bent to contour to the bottom edge.
Concrete slab or patio landings.
To cover the ends of the sleepers install deck fascia board.
Stair stringers should always land on a level and well drained surface.
The fine homebuilding article stronger smarter deck stairs by steven baczek and mike brussard issue 258 april may 2016 offered a number of great suggestions.
