First things first. Thank you to all of the military keeping our country safe. Hopefully everyone is enjoying some BBQ today.
Our grandiose plans of sitting out on our new finished deck with scrumptious food are not going to materialize. We did make some progress this weekend however.
Good news...the stairs are in!
Bad news...they are most likely going to have to come back out.
Due to a slight miscalculation the walkable space on the stairway once the railing is in may not be enough. Code is 36 inches for the stairs. I am pretty sure that is walkable space and not total. We have 36 inches total but once the railing is in it will be more like 26 inches.
26 inches is pretty narrow.
The problem is that it will be very difficult to fix the stairs after the railing is in....and expensive. So if we want the stairs bigger we need to make the correction now before the railing on the deck goes in.
As has been par for the course it will not be easy to increase the width of the stairs. It is going to require breaking apart a huge rock that is at the bottom of the stairs. It will also require the stairs to be completely redone.
With the setback the decking took a back seat to some other yard work today.
At least for now we have stairs...although the pugs refuse to go down them.
This project is beginning to annoy me.
So Happy Memorial Day to all of you that have decks. I hate you.
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