Landings and Steps

We plan to have a real front porch, but the project has cost more than we expected, so for now we just have the minimum steps and landings we need to get a CO. We can add a porch later.

The temporary landings are so well made!

The minimum size for a landing is actually only 36″ x 36″, which seems crazy small. But it is just temporary, so we are going with what we can afford now.

(I googled for the minimum landing size to get a CO and pulled up a lot of information on getting a pilots license.)

A small landing doesn’t need a poured foundation or piers. It can just be set on level pre-cast footings like these.

The landing will be super stable. The pressure treated wood 4×4 posts extend to support the railing.

Each deck is 36 3/4″ x 40 1/2″. The carpenter had pre-cut almost everything at his shop and assembled it when he got to the cabin.

This is the same day he finished the Modular Cabin On-site Connection.

The deck pieces are cut out to go around the posts.

So it looks really finished.

The landing is free standing. We can lift it up and move it to paint the trim board you see there.

We put a concrete block down so we can get in and out of the cabin for now.

This is the front door landing. It’s the same process. I thought it was set on concrete blocks, which it kinda is, but these blocks are actually pre-poured or precast footings.

After we got the trim painted, the carpenter came back with all of the parts for the steps already pretty much assembled.

The carpenter dug space for more cast concrete to rest the steps on. He finessed it until everything was level in every direction.

Then he attached the steps to the landing. Everything is screwed together.

You can see the concrete support in this photo.

This is how he anchored the handrail post. The ones on the house we are in are just nailed to the outside of the steps.

Here’s a closer look at how the steps on the front of the cabin are assembled.

It looks like he is taking forever with all of the measuring and leveling, but he actually did it really quickly and efficiently.

These are so well made! I want to use this as a landing to the front porch once we build it.

Here are the finished steps to the back door. If we need to get larger furniture in, we can move the landing out of the way.

It will be really easy to get in and out of the back door with just three total steps that are not at all steep.

Everywhere you might touch is sanded and smoothed.

Taylor Fowler (Fowler Excavating) is the contractor. The cabin is from Westwood Cabins. We are very very happy with everything!