Every now and then a client brings me a super fun/weird project outside my typical cabinetry jobs, and this was one of the best. This client had put up homemade slides for her kids in the past but wanted something a bit safer and with a smoother transition at the bottom. The first step for me was to take detailed measurements of the existing staircase, then draw the entire thing out to scale and start figuring out the sizes of each section.

This is the bottom “transition” section before I applied the top layers of plywood. Each section of the slide has multiple ribs inside for structural stability.

A before picture of the staircase.

The finished slide consists of five different sections that interlock with each other. They are secured to the stair risers using threaded inserts, so it can be quickly installed or disassembled for storage in just a few minutes.