man i've worked in construction, and some of the wild shit you see hold houses and decks together after you demo it is crazy.

Been watching you a long time! From someone who never used a power tool, to owning your own business, you've come a long way!

You did fantastic work, April! Thank you for sharing the Fence Armor lineup, glad we could help with this build.

I agree with a miter saw station! I do the same thing for every job! From decks to siding to trim inside. Great job and good work!

Great job you folks. It’s great to see well built sturdy stairs. They turned out great. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred.👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What a beautiful staircase! I loved the ending, waving in the dark with headlights! Great job everyone!

I love you attention to detail and knowledge of great products. The hanger brackets are genius! Thanks for sharing.

Nice touch explaining building code for the top rail on the hand railing.

Real cool, great job April, Keep up the great work. I always enjoy your great videos. Reminds me of the stairs you help build a few years ago...

Ah my lovely wife and I went through that wonderful post setting process for our shed as well. Good job you two working together without poking each other in the eye!

Great video April! It was wonderful to hear your mama in the end. I miss her in your videos! 😊

beautiful set of stairs, thanks...

I built my first set of stairs and a ramp for a shed a couple months ago with the help of your videos. Thanks.

Those are some great looking stairs 👌. I'm not a big fan of stain but the one that you chose is an almost perfect match to your deck. Y'all did a great job! Keep the great videos coming 👍. Thanks for sharing and God bless

Wonderful episode. Have missed your educational efforts So Proud of you, setting an admiral example, regarding safety APRIL you truly LEAD by example Keep up the good work in 2021

Good job April, looks great!

Well done. Looks great.

Great job! Some LED Solar Lights might be a bonus, if you use the steps at night?

Awesome job April! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

@11:47 beast mode activated! :) That post saver produce was really cool, never seen that before.

@youtukang

3 жыл бұрын

👍 correct

Gorgeous great job!

Awesome!!! Looked like fun. No time change here in AZ

Another cool project and build video April, Your doing awesome! Thanks for sharing this one.

Whoa, don't know why but you building stairs is one of the most satisfying things ever! 😁

The quality of these videos is amazing

Looks beautiful! Nice improvement

Looks great April.... Like always !!

Awesome!..I love watching you work!!..Thanks for sharing...

Great job! Looking forward to the deck replacement.

Wow great job April 👌

I like the site supervisors coming over to inspect your work. : )

Great Work. #STAYSAFE #KEEPBUILDING

Thanks for sharing that, hard work!

Looks amazing!!!

I love the place where you live. Texas seems to be very peaceful and nice to live. I live in France and we don't have this weather and this proximity to nature. By the way, very good job for the stairs. It will be far more robust than the old one, will last much longer and the look is definitely nicer.

those support posts you knocked over from the original stairs were terrifying

Thats insane how shallow the posts holes were. I absolutely love the pecan color. 😍 this staircase came out great, which is not surprising seeing all the other videos that I've watched that you've done.

Wow, great job, it looks awesome.

Amazing video, April! Thanks for the mention!

That's very beautiful. An extra idea , you can close the sides of first 10 steps of below the staircase with adding a door become a garden tool storage. Nice job

What a beautiful stair case.

Muy bonita escalera y buen video felicidades.👍

Fantastic work, April! 😃 Beautiful stairs! And beautiful house as well! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Wow, lovely job.

Beautiful job

Nice use of tools. Would suggest for Northeast climates to use deck tape for under tread wood on wood to prevent underside rot and get longer life. In TX likely not an issue. You make great projects and tutorials.

Thanks for the Stain and Seal endorsement. I’ve been using One-Time stain and sealer and it’s costly ($85 a gallon) and takes days to dry due to having to be UV treated in the sun. Couldn’t find drying times for this product, so I may contact company. Like the fact it’s low in VOC so I can apply in basement and ready to use when dry. Living in NY is getting cold now and shorter days cause longer curing time. Thanks again for another well explained and interesting project. 😉

April, you're an inspiration!

Super work !. enjoy all of your videos ! I probably would have put your 4x4s on conic concrete stanchions, to insure that you will have no rot issues.

Nice work i do this daily on metal but had no idea on how to make it on wood …thanks a lot!!!

Looks amazing

Nice build!

Stain & Seal Experts Deck Stain and sealer looks nice

Watching from Australia, always interesting

Awesome! looks fantastic!

Very helpful thank you ☺️

Very nice. I love your channel. And I love carpentry. And the wood.

All the builders in here are so lucky! I miss working like this.

I like your work. good luck

Nice work as always April 👍🏼😬

April always delivers awesome projects. This is no exception: real redhead...knows how to work a crowbar...a sawsall...and a propane torch...hubbs better make sure he stays on her good side.

Hidden under the "skirt" of the stairs, i'd add on the span that's connected to the house, two lengths of wire to keep it tensioned and pulled into the house. Just as a long term precaution, to keep things from moving, which they do, and to relieve any kind of stress on the actual structure, where the break/switch is.

The video quality is amazing, it like looking through a window!

April, you and your crew did an awesome job building your new stairs. Your new stairs are "Rock Solid" (built on rock) which I'm sure will last the test of time very well. I would say at least 50+ years, since you used all treated materials, did your research, and built it very strong (Strong Ties). See what I did there...lol. ;)

Looks great

Love 💖 from Egypt April 💕

April you build alot cool stuff. Iv got questions from you. Could do some tool review,on one you like that most? Thanks keep awesome worn up.

Nice job!

I always look forward to your videos to see what cool thing you’ve worked on. I’m amazed those old stairs were still standing. That looked dangerous. I thought I heard you say the upper balcony was in equally bad shape. So I guess I’m curious from a build standpoint why you would repair the stairs first. If you are going to have to tear down the upper balcony won’t that mean your brand new staircase will need to be reattached to a new upper deck? Also curious on choice of treated wood versus something like Trex for the treads as in your treehouse patio project. Given the Texas heat I would think maybe the trex would be more durable and lower maintenance. Just curious. Always trying to learn. Keep up the great work and these videos.

Great video and result! I'm very interested in that post saver wrap. I checked out the link and was amazed at how inexpensive they were. It appears in the video that you did not cover it all the way don to the end of the post. I remember you said it would be about 2" above ground but wondering why it wasn't double wrapped or something to ensure full coverage below ground. Hope I'm not missing anything here, thanks for posting.

Nice job!!!

I’ve been here since that first set of stairs💪🏻

@ 12:14 ....thanks for mentioning your lack of code-compliant handrail....BUT, you can STILL INSTALL one that is GRIPPABLE...definitely a vital (sometimes literally) component to a proper staircase. You all did a great job on this project, though. Thanks for walking us through and sharing the details.

Impressive !~~. Love your videos & explanations....

@AprilWilkerson

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoy them. Thanks for watching.

Nice rebuild on the stairs. I am glad to see you using American wood products. Lots of people are using IPE and other non-sustainable rainforest wood. Yeah, Ipe - most of it is 100+ years old and being installed in locations where it only lasts 20 years at most.

Not sure I understand the full benefit of the Postsaver sleeves with out also sealing up the bottom end grain of the post. Seems to me the post will just wick up moisture from the end of the post.

@BishopOfBattle

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't used the sleeves but based on my experience, posts tend rot out in the top foot or so below the ground. Most likely rain water either pools at the surface or penetrates a few inches to a foot into the ground. Yes the end will still absorb some moisture, but if you've installed gravel to help with drainage and then cemented around the post, it should be minimal or no worse than the exposed ends above ground. The Postsaver sleeve then protects the most vulnerable portion of the wood. Postsaver's website has information about this as well: www.postsaver.com/products/pro-sleeve-fence-post-protection/

Great Video thx

My first video I saw of yours it was you building a staircase!!!

Looks great! Wow... so how many more years do you think you have on the deck? Are you planning to disassemble the upper stairs or support them during the deck rebuild?

Less than 4” between the spindles is also required in the triangle of space between the tread, riser, and bottom of the railing.

@juzoli

3 жыл бұрын

The code says a 6” ball should not fit through there.

Fantastic!

AWESOME as always, thank you for another great video, learned a lot today. Look forward to the next whatever you will be building :-)

Good work lass

Very nice.

How do you feel about posting anchors. I used some and were great. Post rot no problem just replace the post no hole to re-dig or waiting for concrete

👌...Beautiful work...👍👍

very nice video

I normally use the 7/11 formula for the stairs/stringers but they were all for out-of-city uses so I don't know if they were against code in town.

So nice!!!!

When carving stringers on a CNC router a clearance hole is carved in the corner the rise and runs. I would do this by hand as a round hole does not weaken wood like a square corner.

@larryslotnick5627

3 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea. You want to eliminate any moisture - dwelling points.

April, what are you thoughts regarding "bark side out" I noticed a couple of treads where the bark side was facing down. Are you not concerned with cupping as the PT boards dry??

Re your comment about code and your choice to ignore. As you said check the code. You will find that the handrails should extend one tread width +12" beyond the bottom of the stair. They don't end at the newel post. Landings have guardrails not handrails and guard rails should be 42" tall. The grip type hand rail can be added on brackets below the top of the handrail. This next one gets a little technical and requires visualization. The first tread at the top of each run should be level to the landing. This allows the stringer to have full purchase to the header. Simpson has solved the problem with the connector that you used but if this was being built in steel the shop detailer would change the design to allow for a full welded connection. And let you know all about it! FYI Simpson makes a connector for this design also LSCZ. Their install drawings show the correct detail And I also like the idea of the post anchors. I don't like putting wood in concrete. The concrete acts as a cup that holds water accelerating the rot process. Packing the hole with dry sand works really well as the dry sand expands when it gets damp securing the post. (this from Norm on TOH)

good job عمل رائع

Doing that in 3 days is incredible!

Love give you great job🇰🇼 well done april

@youtukang

3 жыл бұрын

🤝🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🙏

like a duck to water. Incredible April.

Last a decade? Well I certainly hope so! My deck is going on 30 years and it is still as sound as the day I built it!

Awesome job! And YES, it’s the best time to work outside in Texas...Lol

@youtukang

3 жыл бұрын

🙏🤝🤝🤝🇮🇩☕😟

Great episode! One question tough, why dont you use a impact driver instead of a drill for screws? i find it abit more noisy yes, but the lack of tourqe on your wrist is worth it for me.

@chuxmix65

3 жыл бұрын

Hammer drill.

That palm nailer though! Very neat! Thank you for this video. Makes the task of taking on a staircase build less daunting after watching your videos. I'll be prepared and, well, with a little luck, my math will work out on the first try. 😂 Awesome video April!