stone steps - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

jciotti7 · 03-28-2009, 08:21 AM

Just curious as to how most of you do the inside of your stone steps. All stone, build block base or form and pour concrete base and cover with stone.

lukachuki · 03-28-2009, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jciotti7

Just curious as to how most of you do the inside of your stone steps. All stone, build block base or form and pour concrete base and cover with stone.

the few times we have done them we have just built a block/brick base on a footer of course.

CJKarl · 03-28-2009, 07:36 PM

I build a skeleton out of CMUs, then veneer with strip cut stone.

jomama · 03-28-2009, 08:52 PM

We have only done them on concrete, but we're usually doing additional concrete work on the job already.

stonelayer · 03-30-2009, 06:10 AM

Any true stonemason knows that the most cost effective way to build steps is stone through and through. In my opinion that makes them truely stone steps.

If you cant build steps out of solid stone your just a wanna-be.

lukachuki · 03-30-2009, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by stonelayer

Any true stonemason knows that the most cost effective way to build steps is stone through and through. In my opinion that makes them truely stone steps.

If you cant build steps out of solid stone your just a wanna-be.

That could be! We aren't stone masons per se and don't pretend to be, but we do some stonework. It's not terribly popular material where we live. I was just relating how we have done it the few times that we've been asked to do this.

jciotti7 · 03-30-2009, 07:34 AM

It's actually easier to build the steps out of solid stone. On a 20' long set of steps with 8 risers you can end up burying a lot of stone and at 400/ton it really jacks the price up. Not a wanna--be just asking how others do it.

jvcstone · 03-30-2009, 08:10 AM

I've built them over concrete cores, cmu/brick cores, stone facing with rubble cores, and from solid stone 8 inch slabs. Just whatever the job calls for. My opinion, the most fun are those built from stone flagging with rubble/ stabilized sand cores that run "free form" up hill sides as part of the hardscape. Just have to make sure rise and tread stay consistent and meet code. Worked on one out on lake Travis that had about a 50 foot overall rise on a cliff face. Used stone we quarried right on the site. Great summer time job.

JVC

jciotti7 · 03-30-2009, 08:18 AM

Wow. Checked out your website and was really impressed with your work.