Total height from bottom of door to ground approx 16 inches.

Any ideas of the best way for a DIYer.

2 full slabs on top of each other followed by 2 half slabs ???

Would you have the knobbly side of the slabs upwards ???

Any suggestions

Mr Big wrote:
Total height from bottom of door to ground approx 16 inches.

Any ideas of the best way for a DIYer.

2 full slabs on top of each other followed by 2 half slabs ???

Would you have the knobbly side of the slabs upwards ???

Any suggestions

Yes, 3 pieces of half inch ply 16" high and the lenght of one doorwide and
the two side however wide you want them.
Nail the three pieces together,shove the box shape hard against the door
area prop it up with bricks so it don't move.
Get some sand and cement, make a mix and add some course aggragate then
pour into box.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:

oops! make that...
3 pieces of half inch ply 8"

As you want step down from door edge to step then step to ground.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

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Mr Big wrote:
Total height from bottom of door to ground approx 16 inches.

Any ideas of the best way for a DIYer.

2 full slabs on top of each other followed by 2 half slabs ???

Would you have the knobbly side of the slabs upwards ???

Last time I did a step I dug down about 4" and cast a slab, built the
sides up with bricks then cast a 2.5" reinforced slab on top and covered
it all with quarry tiles.

Mr Big wrote:
Total height from bottom of door to ground approx 16 inches.

Any ideas of the best way for a DIYer.

2 full slabs on top of each other followed by 2 half slabs ???

Would you have the knobbly side of the slabs upwards ???

Any suggestions

Of course, any step at all would likely not be Part M compliant....

Come on then why not ??

I suppose it now has to have a slope.


Of course, any step at all would likely not be Part M compliant....

Mr Big wrote:
Total height from bottom of door to ground approx 16 inches.

2 full slabs on top of each other followed by 2 half slabs ???

Assuming the slabs are 4" thick? That would work, but I've not seen 4"
slabs myself.

Would you have the knobbly side of the slabs upwards ???

Yes, to add non slip properties.


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Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

The added problem I have now discovered, is that right under the door,
is an airbrick.

So I suppose I cannot use anything solid and permanent as the step.

The step used to be an open wooden pair of steps, but they have rotted
and were always a pain in freezing weather and slippy. Any ideas of
how to make a wooden tread non slippy ??

Mr Big wrote:
The added problem I have now discovered, is that right under the door,
is an airbrick.

So I suppose I cannot use anything solid and permanent as the step.

The step used to be an open wooden pair of steps, but they have rotted
and were always a pain in freezing weather and slippy. Any ideas of
how to make a wooden tread non slippy ??
you could build in brick and put a vent either side of the step to allow
air flow, maybe?

Mr Big wrote:
The added problem I have now discovered, is that right under the door,
is an airbrick.

So I suppose I cannot use anything solid and permanent as the step.

The step used to be an open wooden pair of steps, but they have rotted
and were always a pain in freezing weather and slippy. Any ideas of
how to make a wooden tread non slippy ??

Varnish it and whilst still tacky, sprinkle it with sand.


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257