Saturday, June 13, 2020

Dangerous steps

Things naturally need maintenance.
But as we are busy with just normal cleaning, extraordinary cleaning, fixing flying pool roofs, trying to raise kids and indulge in sports and social life just to not become full time robots (while also squeezing other renovations, maintenance of all sort, etc.) we miss that some things of the house might need a more urgent intervention than we have forecast.

It is the case with our side entrance stairs.
I had noticed that they were getting some patina, but that they would start quickly to fall apart I didn't really expect.
The cats are waiting for us to let them in
I have no idea from which epoch these stairs are, but I can see that they have been cast on a different type (in terms of material) construction and hence I doubt they are from the jugend time. 
Though, I don't think they were redone by the last owner before us, so my suspect is that they are from when the Svensson sold the house (around 2000) or from when them or the Edler did the house renovations (1974 or 1958 in the latter case).
More and more pieces are simply falling off
Nevertheless. I do like the appearance as it looks a bit old fashioned, although this is concrete. The other stairs we have are made with some other material but I am unsure if that would be suitable here as we have the other part of the stairs as well.

How it looks underneath the stairs
Our plan is to just get some new concrete stairs that wouldn't look too modern. Like usual, getting some craftsman on board seems to be mission impossible. 
I have got one that should come and make some samples, but he was supposed to show that to us during this week and I haven't seen anything.

This is getting dangerous
I just hope that it survives till I manage to get at least this guy to fix something for us. Otherwise I guess we need to learn to fly.

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