New garden steps

[Timburton1234567890]

Hi,
I want to build a small patio/ walkway outside of my patio doors.
I am thinking of building three retaining Walls and topping them with wood beams
On top of the wood beams I have some Yorkshire stone I want to "cement" on.
The thing I want to know us;
1) How do I fix the wooden beams to the retaining Walls
2) How do I cement the yorkshire stone to the beams?

The next problem I have is that I want this edged with metal railings. Is this practical and easy to do?

 

[r896neo]

There are some fundamental flaws with your plan. The main one being that mortar will not adhere to wood. You need to rethink your designs to have masonary to masonary. Timber can by all means be used as an edging but not as risers for steps or for copings.

 

[Timburton1234567890]

I thought that may be tge case, however another gas told me differently. When I said beams, I was referring to sleepers. I presume tgis makes no difference

 

[r896neo]

No different for sleepers. You can of course bed slabs onto timber but they don't actually stick to it which with steps would be pretty dangerous.

 

[Timburton1234567890]

Thanks, I will have to rethink how i am going to do this.

I have the stone for tge wall element, the Yorkshire stone for the top, I just don't know how to support tge Yorkshire stone on top.

In a nutshell I am looking to build a wall about three meters long, only three stones deep, probably about 6 standard bricks high.
I have allowed for three returns, on top of which I was going to put tge sleepers, clearly this would not works.

So simple advice on how to support the yourshire stone would be great, thanks

 

[Alarm]

Bricks?

 

[r896neo]

Sorry but i am struggling to understand what you mean. But if you are planning to use the yorkshire stone as copings then simply bed them on mortar. 4:1 would do.

If you are looking for advise on how to lay stone flags then lay them on a full bed of wet mortar. 5:1

Have a look at pavingexpert.com for further guidance on paving/flagging