So a guy I do alot alot of work with said he had a friend that wanted a few steps built out of concrete. No problem forming 3-4 steps shouldn't be to big of a deal and we had some down time between jobs and it would be a perfect filler. So we show up to see these steps and here is where he wants them. From the sand to the top of the retaining wall.

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This is not just a few steps.

So we start setting forms. Kind of hard to drive stakes into solid rock. Had to use wedge anchors with angle metal and then rebar drilled into the rock to hold the forms. I think we burned up about 15 drill bits for my roto hammer trying to install rebar and set the forms. There is almost 300 feet of rebar in the steps when we were done.

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Now time to pour. See high tide was at 5:50 am. At high tide the bottom 3 steps are under water. So that ment set the bottom forms the morning of the pour. We had concrete ordered for 9 am. We were ready to pour and the truck didn't show till 11 am. So we start pouring and get it poured out and start to finish it. Kind of hard when you have a 4" point to stand on with a 10 foot drop off behind you. between the steps and the around the rocks we poured in 10 yards of 4000 psi concrete.

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Oh crap here comes the rain and wind. This wan't a so cal rain it was a down pour water running down our steps with rain drops leaving divits in the wet concrete. The reason we poured that tight to rain was cause the surf the next few days was to be way high and would have probably taken all of our forms out. They didn't want to pay to have us re form them twice.


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Then installed the railing. We made it replacable as the surf does beat on this hard. The neighbor has the bottom 3 steps on his stairs missing as the surf has warn them away. He did them 3 years ago.

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An ocean view is nice, but that's pushin' it:eek:

Nice work! The steps look great. Looks like quite a challenging job. I bet you were thinking about climbing those boulders instead of laying concrete on them:rangertan:

Damn Matt, you do like a challenge, huh!?!

What town is that?

....Great work on an extremely challenging job...:biggthump

San Clemente. The plywood that is leaning against the house in the first picture is so they can board up the windows during high storm surge. Otherwise the waves and rocks will break the windows.

It was interesting. We had to cut some of the rock so we could get the steps in.

Was alot harder then putting up these racks. If you look in the background you can see the pallet racks that are 24' tall. Tracy and I had to take two rows of those down so we had room to put these shorter ones in.

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I'm sorry but why plywood for the windows? looks like shit when there isn't a storm surge. has anyone ever suggested functional shutters?

Cause it is one big sliding glass door where both center sections open up so you have an almost 8' wide walkway out to the deck. Also it is a weekend/vacation house so they are not there all the time. Another thing is that I doubt some little shutters would stop the baseball size rocks they find on the deck after a good storm surge rolls through. If you did find shutters where would they go when not in use. The plywood goes on the side of the house and one person can move them. Shutters would clog up the deck and be cumbersome.


Some people have what looks industrial roll up doors on there places. Right now they are just using plywood.