I have some sort of rubber material on the stairs and driver area now. The problem is they used a seperate molded corner piece on the edge of each step. All of the cracks accumulate large amounts of dust in the desert.I would like to redo the steps so they are even. The first step is shorter than the others after the new door was installed. I was thinking of using tread plate like Gary did so I can weld up all of the seams so dust doesn't get into seams.I guess I need to reconsider epoxy paint even though it has lasted fine in my basement.
Or you could use stainless tread plate & buff it when you're done. When you figure in the cost of paint & maintence, stainless doesn't cost much more, sometimes it's cheaper.
Quote from: kyle4501 on October 10, 2007, 12:28:31 PMOr you could use stainless tread plate & buff it when you're done. When you figure in the cost of paint & maintence, stainless doesn't cost much more, sometimes it's cheaper. Stainless is very expensive new. I was over at the local metals place a few weeks back and I seem to recall stainless was selling for $8 a pound for drops. Aluminum was $3 a pound for drops. (I was buying aluminum so I didn't pay a lot of attention to stainless prices.)I should be able to get stainless tread plate for free or very inexpensive, but isn't stainless likely to scratch from sand and dust? My first thought about this was to use plain tread plate aluminum or stainless, but I figured it would look like heck after a trip or two.