It’s been a long time since my last post, and a lot has happened. I had this silly idea that I would be able to blog about each main section after it was all complete. But this house doesn’t go up like that. It goes up in layers… long, never-ending, maddening layers. But, we’re getting close. We’ll be in by Christmas for sure. In the meantime, this post is about some fixes that we’ve made to the walkway with the help of the Palomino brothers, who are really wonderful.
The Landing
First, the landing to our main doorway was really a problem. I cannot find any photos of the before, and that’s probably because I was repressing the image. In any case, the gist of it is that the steps to the main walkway landed in a section that was about 4" below the actual level of the door landing area, so you would have to cross a slight "depression" and then go up again to get to the front door. This was a result of the height requirement of the stairs. It looked awful, but Chris said, "We can’t do anything about it; County requirements." I said:
"You’ll fix it. You always think of something and then fix it."
The picture below shows the first step in fixing that. Notice how the landing area beneath the step and the entry pad to the right are on the same level?
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