How to Build Granite Porch Stairs | This Old House

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows how to create durable, beautiful stone steps. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for Building Granite Porch Stairs:
- granite steps and cheeks
- 3/4-inch crushed stone
- landscape fabric
- stone dust
- two 1/2-inch-diameter x 18-inch-long pieces of steel rebar, used to pin the granite cheeks in place
Tools List for Building Granite Porch Stairs
- wheelbarrow
- pointed shovel
- hand tamper or motorized compactor
- long pry bar
- 4x4s
- rubber mallet
- 3-pound sledgehammer
- 18-inch level
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