Cumaru Deck Stairs with Vinyl Railing

This situation called for a simple back stoop with stairs that didn’t take up much space, and matched the materials and style from the rest of the house. The deck boards are Cumaru, an exotic hardwood similar to Ipe. The stairs are bolted to the house at the ledger but are sitting on the concrete patio, technically a free floating, semi-temporary structure.

I used white PVC for the vertical skirt boards and risers, stainless steel trim screws and taped the tops of the stringers in hopes of making it last as long as the hardwood decking will.

The little landing is kind of overbuilt with 2 x 12 cutoffs from the stair stringers because it worked out that way, and to allow for lots of height to attach the stairs, and bolt to the house. I also just assumed heavier was better in this case to really hold them down and feel secure.