Wooden Steps

[Stephen Jones]

The wooden steps down from my backdoor to the garden below have rotted away and I wondered if anybody had any ideas who might sell replacements etc. The current ones are about five steps and drop about

1.3M

Thanks in advance

Steve

[bigcat]

rotted

easy to make your own. Premade are pretty pricey. Maybe this time use a durable wood like oak.

NT

[Lobster]

Might be worth trying

- they do good value bespoke staircases and might be able to help?

You're probably looking at getting one made to order somewhere I'd have thought.

David

[David Lang]

Where abouts in the UK are you?

Dave

[Stephen Jones]

Shoreham, west sussex

[Simon]

Try reclaimed / new oak railway sleepers. Various places round country can supply them. Simon.

[Andy Dingley]

Railway sleepers in _oak_ ?

If you do use sleepers to make steps, then do something about the top surface. Decades of treatment with creosote and spilled oil means they're often extremely slippery.

Personally I make outdoor steps like this from larch. Cheap, easy to get, resinous enough to last well. Again, attaching some metallic tread strip can be worth doing although in this case it's to reduce mechanical wear.

[Simon]

've got untreated stuff. Were you saying, oak is the wrong material ? Or wrong price ? I don't know much about wood, but surely hardwood is better. I was going to get some to make a fireplace.

Cheers, Simon.

[Andy Dingley]

I was just surprised they have many oak sleepers.

[The Natural Philosopher]

If anyweher near wesrt suffolk, and wanting old oak beams, say so here.

I've got tons. Literally.

[The Natural Philosopher]

They don't. Teak is one material, and or a heay pine I think.

[Rod]

I believe that many are/were jarra(h).

[The Natural Philosopher]

sounds familiar.

As in 'Jarra March?'

[Mike]

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