Porthcurnick Steps near St Mawes – 2013

A1 Complete Builders was instructed by the National Trust to undertake the reconstruction and rebuilding of a flight of steps leading on to the beach, opposite The Famous Hidden Hut. The lower section of old concrete steps had taken a battering over the years and had broken up leaving no steps in place at the foot of the beach. Excavating the sand down to bedrock and placing 4 cubic meters of concrete in place was the first task, once this was complete we then fixed shuttering to the sides and poured concrete in two hits to form 17 new steps. The next difficult task for my team was to place and lay 40 granite steps weighing in at around 400 kg each [too heavy to physically pick up] size 1.6 mts x 300 mm x 200 mm. Once in place a hand rail was fitted from the top to bottom finishing off this fine example of steps and opening late October to the public.