Garden Stairs Made From Wooden Railway Sleepers Bury Hill Topsoil And 11. multi level flower bed created with sleeper borders. a lower flower bed, combined with the main bed, can greatly add aesthetic value to your landscaping. railway sleepers can also be used as a border between the walkway and the garden bed. 12. Check out these imaginative and inventive step projects using railway sleepers. a big 'thank you' to all our customers and friends who've sent us photos and descriptions of their railway sleeper steps, whether in the garden or part of their business, and generously shared pictures of their step projects online.
Railway Sleepers Steps And Landscaping Wooden railway sleepers – new or reclaimed – make great rustic garden steps. sleepers are available from a number of online retailers, and often from reclamation yards and large garden centres. if you are using reclaimed sleepers be aware that they will often be coated with a bitumen based paint, which can easily mark surfaces. Use a spirit level to ensure the sleeper is level before attaching, then screw through the stake into the sleeper. if using concrete to fix the sleepers, lay a bed of concrete between 50mm – 100mm thick, with a little extra at the front and behind the sleeper. position the sleeper on top of the concrete bed and add concrete in the space. Use a heavy duty fence post spade to dig out a hole or trench for your beams to sit in, allowing for around 2ft (60cm) of your sleeper to sit beneath the soil. use a spirit level to ensure your sleepers stand straight and fix into place using a fixing foam or concrete. They were unloaded by hand from a two axle delivery van by two strong colleagues, and carried up 13 steps to the "base camp". here they were sawn to size with a "domestic" electric chain saw. a new chain made 10 cuts of the "new" railway sleepers plus about half a dozen to cut up the old ones for removal. the chain was totally blunt by the end.
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