Rebuilding Lake House Stairway Landings
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been replacing rotting planks and rebuilding landings on the stairway down to the lake at the lake house. Before that, I had to clear away a ton of dirt and sand than had slid off the cliff face over the past two years. This was a lot of work, but opens up space and makes the final set of steps down to the lake much cleaner.
After clearing out the dirt and sand, I rebuilt the first of the landings.
I also replace stretches of railing on the way down the stairs.
A couple of days later, I replaced the 4×4 logs that were used to improve footing and give definition to the trail before the actual stairs start.
The following weekend, I got to work on the next landing that needed to be rebuilt.
Dock Is In – Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
[…] We finally have the dock in the water, which is nice even though it took until mid August. In the chaos of getting the boat lift and boat moved over to the Bayview Boat Club, along with the persistent high waters on our part of Lake Wisconsin, I think that Deano Docks forgot about our dock. It wasn’t a major problem since I was working on repairing and replacing the stairs. […]