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Yesterday, Jose and his crew removed the formwork from the stairs, repaired the terrace columns and patched the guardrail stiles. As you can see in the photo below, one stile is still missing - only its base remains attached to the guardrail. We may just end up leaving it that way. Given the stiles' unique shape, we'd have to create a mold in order to construct the stile, and that may be more trouble than it's worth. The house IS over 100 years old... it's bound to have a little flaw, er, rather character, here and there... 
Jose and his crew also finished pouring the sidewalk steps. They came out okay...
... not perfect, but okay... they work... and look significantly better than before. 
Tomorrow the guys return to re-attach the handrails. Previously, they were just kind of sitting atop the stairs. Even though it took six guys to lift the handrails, it only took two of them to push the slabs of stone onto their sides. SO, we decided the way to go is to drill a stainless steel rod, about 1/4" in diameter, into the stair and into the stone handrail, at the point which rests atop each step. Hopefully the stone handrails don't crack...
Yesterday, Jose and his crew removed the formwork from the stairs, repaired the terrace columns and patched the guardrail stiles. As you can see in the photo below, one stile is still missing - only its base remains attached to the guardrail. We may just end up leaving it that way. Given the stiles' unique shape, we'd have to create a mold in order to construct the stile, and that may be more trouble than it's worth. The house IS over 100 years old... it's bound to have a little flaw, er, rather character, here and there... 
Jose and his crew also finished pouring the sidewalk steps. They came out okay...
... not perfect, but okay... they work... and look significantly better than before. 
Tomorrow the guys return to re-attach the handrails. Previously, they were just kind of sitting atop the stairs. Even though it took six guys to lift the handrails, it only took two of them to push the slabs of stone onto their sides. SO, we decided the way to go is to drill a stainless steel rod, about 1/4" in diameter, into the stair and into the stone handrail, at the point which rests atop each step. Hopefully the stone handrails don't crack... 
3 comments:
exciting exciting excting. I cant wait to come see the house!!!!!!
How's the inside coming along?
btw that was me Maya.
We HAD to tackle these front steps before the winter... so... the inside got put on hold for several weeks. We're gearing up to finish the second floor though... the flooring guy is coming by Monday to discuss how to tackle the floors and stairs... and we're finishing up the messy work in the master bathroom in the next couple of weeks also.
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