Benches

Just before we started construction, we decided to replace the stairs coming into the house with a deck that would bridge the slope.

I won't say that it makes the house handicap accessible, but its always good to eliminate steps, especially outdoors.  Here's a picture of the original concept.

We had a brief break in the Fall Monsoon weather last week so I finally got around to building the benches.

I'm working alone so I decided to build two 8-foot benches instead of a single long and unwieldy 16-foot bench.

I used pressure treated (PT) 2x6s for the sides and PT 2x2s for the slats.

Pieces of scrap 7/16" OSB were used as spacers to keep the slats aligned during assembly.

The finished benches are each 8'-3" long, 14 1/2" deep and 18" high.

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Each bench has three 4x4 post legs attached with double 2x4s

Here, the benches are both assembled and ready to be mounted to the deck.



Titan post anchors were used to attach the posts to the deck (click on the image below to go to the Titan web site).

The Titan anchors are extremely strong and very low profile... but they are a LOT of work to install.