How to Cut and Install Granite Steps | This Old House
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Jenn Nawada watches as local Westerly granite is cut into steps for her landscape plan. She then helps to install them.
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Westerly homeowners Shayla and Scott want to incorporate some local Westerly granite into their landscape. Jenn Nawada visits a 4th generation granite cutting shop in Westerly where they cut granite slabs. Then they hammer out a live edge detail on the front face using a traditional method and tools. Then the slabs are installed in the backyard.
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How to Cut and Install Granite Steps | This Old House
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Thanks for everything you do to teach people with your videos. They're really helpful and well explained🙏🏿.
It's 2020 and TOH video editors still don't know you have to show the finished product (and not just for 1 second, either). Even amateurs on UA-cam understand this simple concept. Come on, get with the times, guys.
This show was once great and informative for diy. But now every house is built for millionaires and they just showcase thier tools.
A lot of this on TikTok, clips of process and just a single frame of the finished product. xD
How high or steep can one make it!
Great. Now I need to find a 600 lb slab of granite to cut and chip for my steps. Definitely a DYI project...
I also love the look of the finished project. Great video editing.
Make sure you bend your knees when you lift.
@@MrJoshua182 too late, back is broken. Thanks TOH.
Roger would move those stone steps with his bare hands.
I would like to have seen the finished steps.
Any way to keep these steps clean ? Mine get so dirty and was just wondering if I should seal them or just power wash once a year ?
Would granite steps be slippery in cold snowy areas? I'm just wanting to put steps in my garden and want material that will be easy to manage for ice and snow.
Usually, they "treat" the surface with fire to roughen it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_flaming
@@altamiradorable Thank you.
Only if it was polished
I just imagined someone using polished granite for walking on. Haha.. They be slipping everywhere
Yes they will. Be careful
What type of material could you use if you wanted to do the same effect but you wanted it to be totally clear where you could put color-changing LED lights beneath it so you could see any color through the steps or walkway or ramp? It would nice to see it so so it could be heated so in the winter the snow would not ever build up and it would be hard to be stained or scratched? What types of materials would you have to use to do something like that?
Quartz? Diamonds?
I am probably wrong but an epoxy could be poured to the whatever dimensions(I think) and colored with Different striations ? Otherwise just wait til winter and use water ... I’m fired
Acrylic, clearly your youth wasn't wasted on bopping away on an underlit acrylic dance floor ... kids today ...mutter ... mutter ... mutter ...
Ross Kneebone
Hindsight....🕺🏻
"How to Cut and Install Granite Steps: Step 1 call a contractor, Step 2 write him a check.
Tenatious _E a big check!
Americans: We shall build our houses with cardboard and yogurt lids, but our steps shall last 10,000 years.
It's funny, granite is a material from outdoors. That lives its whole life outdoors until we bring it in. But when you think granite for a house, you rarely think of outdoor use. It's always floor or kitchen or counter, maybe a wall
‘We’re gonna use every inch’ (Proceeds to bash it to hell and throw chips off)
Chips will be further reduced in size for laying other stones on and making road bed or a gravel path.
Suspect these blokes don't waste a grain.
So have the shop cut it and hire a crew to install...got it
Assuming these go all the way to the house - is this like $5,000 to $10,000?
How to install granite steps: watch this commercial of a granite shop and pay them $25,000 to do it for you with “special” granite
Finished product? Wtf?
Don't tell me they are going to change the beginning of the show ditty
Is it possible to bring Roger bobblehead
Where is Roger?
He stepped away from the show sure to health issues.
@@michaelderamo1115 Poor old lad, he was quite entertaining when doing his piece to camera. I got the impression the host was always a tad wary about what he might say or do next 😂.
As for his health issues sincerely hope it wasn't an occupational hazard like silicosis or similar.
Shame if doing the thing he liked and was good at ended up with poor health.
Might be a salutary lesson about remembering to always use PPE when appropriate.
That was something Norm did without fail at the start of every NYW.
Granite counters just isn't enough,.... granite stairs..... granite toilets have got to be next!!
I really dont think steps that size are very necessary
And my one thing I would appreciate to know is how much a step of that size and weight what's the actual price on that
My opinion a step of that size is extremely unnecessary
If I had money for steps I wouldnt really buy those that's just extreme
Who needs a 600 pound step
Wild guess. $10,000? lol
@@potatoes1234 if that is so that's a lot of money to just throw down the drain
If your willing to spend money like that maybe it should go towards some sort of organization like maybe the cure to cancer that's just my opinion
But maybe that's just me
600lb step and lots of them ... you'll have heard of vanity projects?
Obviously it wasn't strictly necessary but some folks have really deep pockets ... and as a builder would you want to work for someone who was skint?
I would say that these home owners are "exactly" the clients you want.
(Hyperbole Alert)
The lady owner walked up just two of those steps and virtually declared it was the best experience she'd ever had in her life, bar none.
Blimey! Could you even imagine what she'd be like with a door, that opened and closed!
To repeat, those folks are the customers you want. Really.
A new way to install the steps 😂😂😂😂🤦🏽♂️ Yeah, maybe in the US. Vacuum lifters are being used in Europe for decades.
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He calls his "hand sander" pumice ?? Pumice is a volcanic, very soft and light rock material. Looks more like some kind of granite to me !
It is pumice.
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Sorry, OCD here, why would you want to take a perfectly cut edge and chip it to hell?
Aesthetics.
@@t1n4444 I can see someone thinking it might look good, but wouldn't it look good (and be cheaper) to have like a greek temple of proportion and perfection?
@@firearmsstudent I agree with you, but I think it's just a personal preference. Would definitely want a nice, clean cut myself.
@@firearmsstudent Apparently the home owner didn't go for the Greek temple look.
And let me tell you having been to visit the Parthenon the steps cut into the rock there were so slippery and polished by many, many feet over the millennia it is akin to walking on ice. I nearly fell over ... and that was before the ouzo.
So no wonder the homeowners didn't want a Greek temple effect ... could end up with a broken neck, or worse.
In fact thinking about it those Greek maties should have had someone roughen the stone before I nearly fell off the cliff.
If it's not leaving flipping great wooden horses all over the place then it's polished stone steps.
Those lads are a menace and no mistake. I think someone should say something.
@@t1n4444 LMAO let me add the **shakes fists towards the sky at the Gods***
Again not showing the finished product
Boo!
Because 95% of us have granite in/around our homes... 🙄
You'll find granit in every second German garden.