Now that the temperatures have cooled to the point where I’m not completely melting away, I’ve been spending a portion of my weekends working outside in my yard.
The project I completed this weekend was to install some stairs down to our driveway from the back door. We have a small porch and some wooden stairs to the ground but there was still a slope down to the gravel parking area. At one time there were stairs but they were removed to pass inspection to sell the house. We’ve put up with the stoney path for three years, but it tended to get slick in the winter and we’ve both taken spills on it.
My task has been to reinstall steps along the same path. I used landscape pavers left over from past projects and only installed them into the dirt rather than with concrete. We will be remodeling our back stairs in a couple of years and adding a breakfast deck so the stairs will be replaced with permanent then. At this point, I just needed some sturdy temporary steps.
I started at the bottom of the slope, dug out, and leveled a place for each step. I was very much making it up as I went along. I had a sort of plan and just made it work. I think it turned out alright and my wife is very satisfied. She now wants a handrail and I happen to have some old steel pipe that I can repurpose for that project. Details of that will be posted when complete. But next, I need to dig up an old foundation in my yard.
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