Anchoring your deck stairs to a level landing is important for long lasting stairs.
Attaching deck stairs to ground.
Laying out attaching deck stair stringers how you attach the stair stringers to the top of the deck and to any landings will be critical.
Veteran carpenter mike guertin explains the loads and codes applying to deck stair connections.
Any advice or thoughts would be appreciated.
Your deck stairs are part of your overall deck structure.
Most deck stairs are cobbled onto the deck as afterthoughts.
Below are steps to create a base if needed.
You should reinforce the rim behind the stairs to provide a solid base for attachment.
Rather am considering the use of continuous threaded rod with blocking.
Attaching them will make your stairs highly susceptible to frost heaves or other ground movement and potentially compromise the integrity of your stair structure.
The result will be the number of steps the staircase will need e g deck is 112 from the ground.
Total height of low level ground level deck.
My new deck has two sets of stairs.
To calculate the actual rise height divide the height in inches by the number of stairs determined in the last step.
The ground may qualify if it meets the requirements.
When attaching stair stringers use a level to draw two plumb lines to mark the left and right positions for the skirts and horizontal lines to mark the top tread location.
If your deck is anchored to the ground using footings then do the same for your steps.
Then screw through the back of the deck rim into the skirts with three more deck screws.
One is 5 ft wide and the other 6ft.
Tack the skirts to the rim with 3 in.
I am building a 10 x12 deck not attached to a ledger board.
My plan was to pour concrete footings then run doubled up 2x8 beams setting on the footings.
In our example 112 15 7 46 which means that the risers will be 7 46 high.
Attaching stairs to a deck.
John august 29 2017.
Apr 28 20 11 17 am.
He provides a simple and stout detail for attaching the stairs to the deck using readily available metal framing hardware.