"Building a Creative 2nd Floor Entryway: DIY Tips & Safety Hacks #HomeImprovement #DIY"
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- 0:04–0:15 Site Preparation and Trench Digging
From How to Pour a Concrete Landing Pad for Deck Stairs, Step 1: Excavate Area
Begin by clearing the designated area where the stairs will be built. Use a shovel to dig out the existing gravel and soil, creating a preliminary trench or excavation area. Mark out the precise dimensions for the concrete footers using a tape measure to ensure accuracy. Continue digging to create deeper trenches that will house the main body of the concrete footers, ensuring the base is relatively flat and clear of debris.
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0:02 Our front door is on the second floor, which means we have a massive set of stairs that's going to be leading up from our driveway to the front door. And while we prepped the driveway for Vuba resin, we realized we may need just a little bit more support for those stairs. Mark Marshall and some of the VUB team offered to give Vinnie an extra hand. And it's not if we have another hurricane, it's when the next hurricane comes. And these stairs are installed. We want to make sure that there is enough support that the flooding waters or the high winds don't just rip them out of the ground. They ended up digging down and making a few footers and using fiber reinforced concrete just so we have something solid to attach the stairs to. But as soon as that top layer of buba is installed, the concrete pad will actually get covered up so you won't even know it's there. But we figured we might as well be safe than sorry.
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