In a brilliant move we decided to replace our ugly, painted cinder block stairs with nice, wooden ones in our yard to go up on the second floor.
We got the stairs fully assembled for a reasonable price and the builder told us they move those with two or three people. We drove them home and tried to lift them out of the pickup… I am guessing 1000 lbs easy. Maybe they move them with two or three guys using a forklift, but there is no way two or three people can move these.
So after measuring the width of our yard gate and concluding the stairs were too wide to fit through, my great plan was to lift up the stairs over the 6 foot fence with four people. Short story: It didn’t happen. Long story: We lifted it for about 30 seconds without moving after which we almost dropped it on the person lifting them from underneath (me).
Taking the stairs apart made the wood splinter, so we came up with awesome plan #2: Dig out the fence post. Myka started that yesterday and our fears of it being set in concrete were confirmed. I continued digging out the concrete today until I discovered that the concrete was connected to the foundation of the house. Yipee.
Now the last straw is taking the stairs apart. I got most of the relevant screws out already. We still have to lift each part over the fence, of course. I hope that we can get this nightmare over with this weekend; the stairs have been sitting in our front yard for about 2 weeks now…
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