Porch step boards installed too close together
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Joanna Brown
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Our porch steps are built with composite (a plastic type board). They were installed very close together. We had fir trees nearby which dropped needles that decomposed and filled in all the space between the boards. Now the steps retain a puddle after rain which, I fear, will be worse when it snows and makes for a sheet of ice. Any fix besides pulling the steps apart and starting again? Would drilling holes between the boards, or in the boards, work?
4 answers
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How about saw cutting the gaps to make them wider? I have done it before -- even stacked as many as three blades on a circular saw to get the desired space -- without much change in appearance.
Jeff
on Aug 28, 2015
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If you can not do the saw fix maybe power washer would clean them up. You can rent power washers so that might first step any way.
Betty Miller
on Aug 28, 2015
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I would definitely put a hole in the step to relieve the standing water.
Janet Pizaro
on Aug 28, 2015
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I love my pressure washer - one of the best purchases I have ever made. Every summer, I blast out the accumulation of dirt in the expansion joints in my concrete sidewalk and driveway. This would work.
Marion Nesbitt
on Aug 29, 2015
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