{"id":4062,"date":"2023-03-09T13:20:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:20:29","slug":"a-proper-staircase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=4062","title":{"rendered":"A Proper Staircase"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here is the last in our series entitled Shit I Forgot To Actually Publish Even Though I Wrote It Like Six Months Ago. Actually, I just amended it with the actual recent progress, so it’s kind of almost up to date. Also, I promise to post properly about the new office which I’m literally now procrastinating about finishing by doing this post instead.<\/p>\n

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As part of the preparation for getting signed off as a legitimate dwelling house (as opposed to a perpetual building site) we needed a proper, legitimate staircase. Ben to the rescue as usual.<\/p>\n

The hole in the floor needed opening up and the floor itself making flat and level-ish.<\/p>\n

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Ben’s expert 3D imagination figured out how to insert all the necessary turning steps and hold everything up from existing sturcture.<\/p>\n

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We started out with a stack of four steps at the bottom, but the headroom was a problem, with a very immovable beam above the bottom two steps.<\/p>\n

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So in the end we ditched that system, moved the whole staircase down and added two kite steps at the top and two at the bottom.<\/p>\n

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It was utter chaos, of course.<\/p>\n

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But before I knew it, I was running up and down a proper staircase.<\/p>\n

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There are plans to clad them in the Canadian Maple flooring I have lying around, but those have fallen by the wayside in the traditional way, to be picked up, um, sometime.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, I tidied up and plasterboarded the wall and ceiling around it and stuck in some temporary safety slats.<\/p>\n

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And of course, for temporary, read long-term temporary, possibly permanent.<\/p>\n

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…except, here we are today with the actual banister made from that rowan tree you may remember me stripping the bark off a few posts ago.<\/p>\n

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This bit was so great, Julian and I just went to Vermont to visit my parents and when we got back there was a banister and the steps were covered in the aforementioned Canadian maple floorboards.<\/p>\n

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As usual, Ben did a lovely job and was pleased to be left alone to make as much of a mess as he liked while doing it.<\/p>\n

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I love the zig-zag stair pattern.<\/p>\n

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I love the organic, local (like 30 meters away local) newel post and banister.<\/p>\n

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And I super-love the acorn carved on it by Ben.<\/p>\n

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Right, I’m off to paint that ceiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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