Metal stair treads - where to get at a reasonable price?

A mate of mine used galvanised steel treads, I will try and find out where he got them. They are fairly substantial and £30 a tread would probably be a reasonable price, given how quick and easy they make the build.

Here's one £22-50 plus vat

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Plenty of checker plate cut to size suppliers on line. All you then need is someone to crop the corners and fold all 4 sides to 90deg. and drill a few holes:-)

I need 12 treads, so that's £22.50 * 12 * 1.2, that's £324 which feels a lot to me still. I suppose it's a fairly permanent fix though.

Ah!!!! Thank you, the magic words 'checker plate' help no end. :-)

The problem with checker plate for external steps, especially if approached over damp or muddy path, is that they collect mud and get slippery. The "open lattice" type are much better, but the perforated type in the link I gave are not too bad.

The "diy" route gives you the merit of custom dimensions, but unless your local fabricator has time on his hands I would suspect that "custom" ones might not save you much.

I think checker (chequer?) plate will be OK for us as the stairs are very infrequently used. Rain will was the mud off before it accumulates to any extent. If I could get 'open' ones I would but they seem a whole lot more money in general.

I've found a local fabricator happy to do galvanized ones with a fold up and down, I don't have a price yet.

For that price you can probably get a whole prefab staircase intended for u se with porta-cabin type buildings or scaffolding etc. Especially if there' s one near you secondhand.

Owain

Hmm, well over £600 for twelve.

However I've now found a local supplier who does 'composite' stair treads at a bit over £20 a go:-

This means a whole set for the staircase with fittings and nose comes to somewhat less than £400 which I guess isn't too bad. A very helpful person on the phone when I contacted them too.

These should be nice and grippy. I have a couple of "sand ladders" which seem to be much the same construction, and made a very good "ramp" over concrete steps when my muscle guy was barrowing muck in and out of my patio, before re-paving. They don't come with a convenient flange for screwing to the stringers, I guess you would carry the load by resting them on secure battens, with smaller screws to withstand the "kick" forces.