Build and Repair Your Patio Steps WITH ONE OF THESE Materials

Outdoors, stairs are exposed to the rigours of the weather, and as such could be affected by timber rot or excess shrinkage and twisting of timbers. if rot has set in to the stringers (side pieces) then a major rebuild may be in order, but if it's only a damaged tread or two a simple repair is possible.
When open-tread outdoor stairs are constructed, the carpenter often simply assembles the stairs by driving nails or screws through the exterior faces of the stringers into the er d grain of every tread; this is susceptible to failure in time because the tread timbers dry and shrink, allowing the fasteners to become loose.


covered patios las vegas might be to clamp the stairs together and then add new fasteners. It's easier to assemble staff -s with cross-tie rods that run from stringer to stringer and pull them together, permanently clamping the tread set up. If your stairs don't possess these, they may be fitted.
Adding cross-ties to your stairs
The stringers should already be fixed at the top to a structure and at the bottom to the bottom; this stops the stairs from spreading at these points, and it's in the middle that outward bowing of the stringers could be loosening treads which means this is where a cross-tie ought to be installed. If the stairs have more than about ten treads then more than one cross-tie will undoubtedly be required, If the cross-tie is manufactured using a piece of galvanised threaded rod fed through a hole in the stringer set just underneath a tread. Drill and counterbore both sides in the same position and feed the rod through. Add washers and nuts to the outer ends of the tie and tighten, the rod will function like a permanent clamp, pulling the stringers in tight. elitewood patio cover should be large enough to accommodate the washer and nut, so any excess rod can be take off flush with the outer surface of the stringer.
Replacing treads
To replace warped or rotten treads in your outdoor stairs:
1 - Use a handsaw to cut the old tread over the middle, then prise if out with a pry bar.
2 - Remove any nails or screws, and if your stairs have cross-ties, loosen them. Replacement timber for treads is available from timber yards in both treated pine and hardwood,
3 - Cut a new tread to length, but before driving it into position treat the inside of the housings and the finish grain of the new tread with a brush-on wood preservative. If you are knocking the new tread in with-a hammer, be sure to use a scrap little bit of timber along the edge of the tread to cushion your blows. Finally, re-tighten the cross-ties and drive some 75 mm galvanised nails back through the stringer into the ends of the tread.