We’re back with more updates for you – lots to go over in this edition of the blog.  We’ll start with the walls.

After a few days of frigid temperatures – way too cold to do anything with cement – the guys were back on track on Saturday.  As you can see from the photos, below, the side walls are now all done- the west wall is up for the full height and the east wall where we had to add a third story to the existing structure is done as well.  Here’s a shot of the walls and the guys taking the scaffolding down.

Now that the side walls are up the guys are taking down the scaffolding.

In other news, we’re still working the budget as agressively as possible and believe we’ve found a solid alternative to the outlandishly priced Mylen staircase.  The Iron Shop, based just outside of Philadelphia in Broomall, PA., makes both straight and spiral stairs.  Suburban Steve and I went out for coffee on Saturday morning and paid a visit to the Iron Shop’s showroom.  It must be mentioned that the service and attention we were paid was absolutely the best so far.  Their prices are quite good as well and it looks like we’ll be moving forward with their product for the stairs through the whole house.  Here are a few pictures of Steve and me checking out the showroom (I had Steve pose on the staircases for fun.)

  

Suburban Steve on the open stair in the showroom.	The open stair sans-Stevie. We'll use a different style railing.	Underside of the stair showing the stringer and tread assembly.
Top plate where the stringer meets the joist at the head of the stairwell. We'll have to trim this out somehow.	Stevie posing on one of the demo spirals like what we'll use for roof access.	Sample spiral stair treads - Brazlian Cherry shown here.

 

 

 

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