DIY STAIR SLIDE, OR HOW TO ADD A SLIDE TO YOUR STAIRS
There are so many ways to update stairs — take up the carpet, use a runner, paint, restain, replace the railing, build a new banister/newel post, add fabric, but not all of them are FUN. For kids add a slide to your stairs!
After we decided on a width of 18″ for our slide, we cut 3/4″ sanded plywood into 2 lengths. We needed almost 9 feet in length. Plywood is only 8feett long, so ours required a seam.
We attached the two lengths with 3 metal mending plates. The seam was placed between two stairs, about a 1/4 of the way down, so that the plates didn’t make the slide sit up on the stair edges
We sanded not only the seam smooth, but the beginning and end edges to get rid of any sharp edges (it also makes it lower-profile to prevent tripping.)
Triangular supports were cut to the depth and height or our stairs and attached in four places on each side by screws from the top and L brackets underneath.