Project guides
The questions that come up when you are building: deck boards for a given size, pickets for a fence run, and bags of concrete per post.
Stair Landing Requirements
Thirty six inches in the direction of travel, at the top and bottom, and a hard stop at 147 inches…
Stair Tread Depth: the Minimum, and What It Costs
Ten inches minimum, measured nosing to nosing, and every extra inch is thirteen inches of hallway on a normal flight.
What Is the Standard Stair Rise and Run?
A 7 to 7.75 inch riser with a 10 to 11 inch tread, and the reason it is a range…
How to Build Deck Stairs
A 36 inch deck is five risers of 7.2 inches, and the hard part is knowing where the bottom of…
How to Cut Stair Stringers
Four decisions and one saw, and the step people skip is cutting the bottom down by the thickness of one…
How Much Paver Base Do I Need?
About 4.4 tons for a 200 square foot patio, because the depth in the specification is what is left after…
How Thick Should an Asphalt Driveway Be?
Three and a half inches of asphalt over 6 to 8 inches of stone, and the stone is the part…
How Many Fence Pickets Do I Need?
A 100 foot fence takes 240 laid solid, not 220. A 1x6 measures 5.5 inches, and using the nominal width…
How Many Deck Boards Do I Need?
A 16 by 12 deck takes 29 boards in 26 rows. Add one foot of length and it becomes 58,…