Return to the Gardening with Stone Forum
| Post a Follow-Up
raised paver landing for steps.
| | |
Posted by thomas_CT Z5 (My Page) on Sat, Feb 12, 05 at 17:01
| hi, i am about to begin a project which involves installing a patio. i am installing interlocking concrete pavers with mason sand and gravel. I have a small dilema, My house is newly constructed without back steps or a patio. i have a 23 inch drop from my sliding door to the ground/grade level. I would like to build a step landing at my screen door level(23 inches up from the dirt) then a step or two onto the patio which runs to the pool deck. I would like to know the best/most cost effective way to achieve this. Someone told me that i can use retaining wall to build up the heigh. If this is true, do i need the R-Wall only for the perimeter of the landing? Do i put topsoil inside the landing or do i have to use the gravel base all the way up to about 20 inches inside the landing? please your suggestions are welcome. Please provide any links/websites that may explain/show this project. thanks much. |
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: raised paver landing for steps.
| | |
Hi Thomas
From what you discribed the best approach would be to have the landing and steps as poured concrete. Either have it as finished concrete or you could cover them with the pavers. The other way that might work is building the landing and stepswith landscape timbers and putting the pavers inside of the surrounding timbers.
Poured concrete might be your best bet, a concrete contractor could do that for you in a day a or two.
Good luck! |
|
|
|
|
