Staircase Part 2

Today, Brad the stair guy, came back to do another 1/2 days work on the staircase. Wow it is looking a lot bigger now. This time he was just working by himself but he is a great worker.

So this is the stairs now.

This bottom step is not fixed into place. In fact it is not even there now.

He wont be back now until probably late next week. He hasn't ordered the handrails or done the stringers yet. Dave may even cut out the new hole for the bathroom door on the weekend so we can seal up the old door and finish the bottom of the stairs.

And that's about it really.

Cheers,
Nat

Staircase progress

Finally the day has come. Today we got the staircase installed. Well they finished about half of it as they didn't arrive until 1:30pm and left about 4:30pm. So they are coming back in the morning to do the remainder of what they can do.

They can't finish it yet because we still need the bathroom access so the bottom bit will be finished later.

I couldn't sleep last night because I was so nervous. You'd think I'd be excited wouldn't you, but as I hadn't seen any drawing or plan I had no idea what I was getting. All I did was sent him photos of what I wanted.
I had a dream they installed a spiral staircase, so of course I was panicking all day.

But when I got home I was thrilled with how it was looking and how much space we still had under the stairs. So now for some photos.

You can see how they are incorporating the metal beam into the design.

 Below are all the pieces that fit together like a puzzle.

This blackbutt tread you can see is a very light wood just as I wanted.

There are no handrails here yet so I guess they will bring them tomorrow.

Very cool huh!

The two guys that were installing it (Brad and Jack from Going Upstairs) were awesome! Jack said it was great to be doing a staircase like this because they don't get to do this style. He said it will look amazing once it is all painted up. Let's hope he is right, but now I can picture it and yes it will be pretty awesome.

So tomorrow night hopefully you will see some more progress shots.

Cheers,
Nat

We have a staircase date and other works

The latest breaking news at This Little Yellow House is that the stair guy just sent and sms and said let's do the stars on Monday. So that is 5 more sleeps. I'd normally be doing a dance but that initial excitement from last week has faded. I am sure Monday morning I will be excited and dying to get home from work.

We spent the weekend working on a few things. Saturday morning Dave pulled down the scaffold.

 

So now it looks like this from the back fence line. You may be able to see what I was doing while he was doing that from the picture above. I painted most of the back wall in the first coat of Lion's Den yellow.
 

Dave is actually finishing it off right now (time check: 8:47pm). Champion!

Other work we did after that was to brace the stairwell walls then hang the plaster. We had to both get up on the highest ladder to get the plaster up while Andrew kept the kids well clear below.

First piece of plaster

Walking the plank

 Also we got the ceiling framed up at the top of the stair well and bought some lining boards to paint white then install maybe next week.

Heidi checking out the lining boards

 Then yesterday I moved all the scaffold timber under the back pergola so the kids can actually get to the trampoline again. This was the before photo. Now it is all clear again.

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. But check in next week for the staircase!

Cheers,
Nat