Recent content by nicholaswebb1979

ha thankyou, sage advice! and thanks for the link, im off to get some end grain stuff (and i shall enjoy trying to put it up in wood i've already put in the ground :/// - its all in the planning)

sorry for the sideways pic! also to answer the other things. i have twelve steps to do (7 left)...and they are softwood.

thanks very much for all your answers...really helpful. In the end i went with the concrete option. A friend told me about postmix - i never knew how easy it was! ive put up a pic of how far i have got.. I have drilled holes in the undersides of the steps, put some steel bar in the...

ah the steel dowel idea sounds great! so i guess i'd just drill a pilot hole through the timber and then just wack the steel dowels through them... do you think id have to hire some kind of powered hammer? and do you happen to know where i might get them from? google isnt being very helpful...

would it be very hard to just hammer them into the ground with a mallet? i think they are around 4 cm thick

thanks again - it might come to that if, I cant work out a way of doing it with the posts...very helpful link, thank you

Thanks for replying! Im not comitted to that method...but im a bit wary of using concrete. I've never used concrete before, and Im not sure id have as much luck in doing a good job!

Hello there, I am building some steps up a steep slope I am basing the design on our next door neighbours (pic attached) and I was wondering how to drive the metal posts into the ground. it looks back breaking! and also where to get them from - or any oher alternatives you could think of...