DIY Outdoor Stairs.

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DIY Outdoor Stairs.
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Living on the banks of a river and not building a ladder to get into the water with your own hands is one of the stupidest actions on our part, and we decided that it was time to correct this situation. The design of the staircase for descending into the water has been tested for years and does not need to be corrected, except that there are not enough more convenient wide steps, but we will try to correct this miscalculation.
As a donor, we got a similar old staircase from our own site. The old ladder for descending into the water was 5 m long. and consisted of two channels of number 12 and crossbars made of steel angle 60x60 mm with a flange thickness of 5 mm.
All the steel parts that touched the bottom silt deposits have deteriorated over 50 years, but the main part of the metal structure would have lasted just as long.
However, the new ladder for descending into the water was made from 100% used Soviet-era steel channels and the same venerable steel angles from the old ladder.
Since the structure turned out to be heavy, we decided to make it from two sections of 3 m in length. The ladder for descending into the water with your own hands was made with a slope of 30°, and this fact made it possible to create comfortable steps 300 mm deep and 180 mm high. The distance between the channels is 1200 mm, with the possibility of further installation of steps 1500 mm wide.
Well, then, the ladder for descending into the water was made with your own hands in the following sequence. Old steel blanks were cleaned with a grinder, cut to size, bent and treated with a phosphoric acid-based rust converter.
The channels were tied together into arbitrary frames in order to fix the center spacing. Then corners were welded to the channels for attaching future wooden steps. After the welding work, the future ladder for descending into the water was primed and painted black with water-soluble rubber paint. Firstly, we had this exact paint, and secondly, we wanted the metal structures under the wooden steps to be less noticeable.
For wooden steps, panels measuring 300x1500 mm were screwed from 50 mm pine boards onto self-tapping screws. Each step was attached to the corners with 2 M6 bolts through washers. To ensure that the ladder for descending into the water did not have sharp protruding parts, the fastening bolts of the wooden steps were recessed flush using a feather drill.
The first section of the ladder for descending into the water was assembled together with the steps, and only then was it completely lowered into the water with one’s own hands. It seemed to us that this was easier than then screwing the steps separately at a depth of 1.2 m under water.
Weight taken!
The structure was fixed by driving used pipes into the ground and then attaching the ladder to them using electric arc welding.
The second three-meter section of the ladder for descending into the water was done by hand in the same sequence, with only one difference. First, all welding work was carried out, including welding to the support pipes and to the working section of the ladder. And only after everything else, the steps calmly climbed.
The do-it-yourself ladder for descending into the water is ready!
Materials needed for everything:
• Metal structures - 300 kg, $0.25 per 1 kg;
• Lumber - 0.4 m3, $200 per 1 m3;
• Primer - 1.5 kg, $1 per 1 liter;
• Rubber paint - 1.5 kg, $4 per 1l;
• Hardware - $8;
• Electrodes - 2.5 kg pack, $10 per pack;
• Cutting wheels - 7 pieces, $0.5 per piece.
In total, the ladder for getting into the water cost $185, if all the work was done with your own hands.
And taking into account existing materials, it is several times cheaper.
Thank you for attention!