OK, not as scary as “The People Under the Stairs” was supposed to be, but it’s still pretty horrifying watching your “new” home being taken apart room by room, bit by bit. Following on from our “flexible housing” issue with stairs dropping and cracking, we had some work done in the middle of November 2008 to sort out the issue.
To do this, a large “service hatch” was cut in the wall between the stairs and the cupboard below, and the stairs were reinforced and “fixed” from below with whole new sections put in place to take the strain and keep things where they should be.
The “blocks” (I’m not a carpenter, does it show) that had been put in the corners and nailed through to keep the stairs true and in place just seemed insufficient for the task at hand, and it is a concern that the rest of the stairs still look like this from underneath. But so far the repairs are holding out, and so are the stairs.
The skimmer came around quite soon after and sorted the repair, I painted it myself, as it seemed quicker and easier. I still have to repair the cosmetic damage caused to the paint on the stairs where they dropped away at the back from the riser. Really frustrating, and inconvenient.
In the photos, the areas/wood sections with glue on them are all part of the apparently quite significant reinforcement/repair work that was carried out.
