Steps & Stairs · Stratham, NH
Steps & Stairs in Stratham, New Hampshire.
Building steps & stairs in Stratham starts underground, on glacial till on the hills. Rolling estate lots between Exeter and the coast. We hand-set every stone to suit the custom colonials and estate homes on former farm parcels of nH Seacoast, and we build it to still be plumb in thirty years.
Schedule and site care in Stratham
Most Stratham homeowners are more worried about the disruption than the stone, and they are right to be. We stage material where it will not kill the lawn, protect the drive and the root zones, and sweep the site at the end of every working day.
Working from a plan in Stratham
Designers keep sending us NH Seacoast work for one reason: what gets built matches what was drawn. We hold the spec, raise conflicts early, and document as we go — including on the Jonathan Keep Landscape Design projects throughout this portfolio.
Steps in Stratham
Stratham’s marine clay in the low ground is unforgiving — walls here get real drainage and a proper footing or they move, and we build accordingly.
Steps rarely exist alone — we tie them into the walkway, wall, and terrace they connect, in Stratham Hill, Stratham Center, and Bunker Hill and across Stratham, so the stair reads as part of the landscape rather than a separate purchase.
A real foundation under every tread
Steps heave before anything else because they concentrate load on a small footprint. Set on glacial till on the hills, marine clay in the low ground near the river, that risk is real — so we excavate below frost, compact a structural base, and bed each tread so it cannot rock, settle, or drift out of line through the winter.
Solid granite treads, stacked bluestone, or dry-set fieldstone risers each get a different build sequence, matched to the custom colonials and estate homes on former farm parcels of the house they serve.
Where the stone comes from
The yards we buy from are regional and long-standing, which is how we can match an existing wall or terrace years later. In Stratham that continuity matters — the custom colonials and estate homes on former farm parcels here tends to get added to over time, not replaced.
Questions
Steps & Stairs in Stratham, answered.
Most residential work runs one to three weeks on site, depending on size, access, and how much excavation glacial till on the hills demands. You get a real schedule before we start, and we hold it — including the clean-up at the end of each day.
Rolling former farmland dropping to the tidal Squamscott on glacial till on the hills, marine clay in the low ground near the river. That governs how we found and drain everything we build here — a proper base and drainage go in before a single stone is set, which is what keeps Stratham stonework flat, plumb, and intact through freeze-thaw.
Usually, yes. We hand-select from regional yards to match color, cleft, and scale against what is already on the property — which matters in Stratham, where the custom colonials and estate homes on former farm parcels tend to be added to over time rather than replaced.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds steps & stairs throughout Stratham — from Stratham Hill, Stratham Center, and Bunker Hill — and across NH Seacoast, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across New Hampshire, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
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