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Front entry stairs and porch landing

The photos follow one front entry from the old stone steps to a new set of steps and a tiled landing beside a black metal railing.

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Pale grey stone steps with a black metal railing rising to a landing with a black metal guard, in front of a stucco house with a grey block base and a small basement window.
What
Front steps and a porch landing
GDE's role
GDE did the full job

Before and after

The old stone steps at the front of the house, and the new pale grey steps with a black metal railing that replaced them.

Stone steps with a black metal railing at the front of a house, beside a stone-faced wall with a small basement window.
Pale grey stone steps with a black metal railing rising to a landing with a black metal guard, in front of a stucco house with a grey block base and a small basement window.

Taking it apart

The old steps are broken down to their concrete core beside a brick wall, with the rubble left at the base.

Old concrete steps broken down to their core beside a red brick wall, with rubble at the base.
The old steps broken down to the core.

Building it back

A new concrete landing, and a timber form with steel reinforcing bars for the stepped wall. Pale stone treads are then set on the concrete steps.

A new concrete landing and a timber form for a stepped wall with steel reinforcing bars, beside a lawn.
A timber form with reinforcing bars beside the new landing.
Pale stone treads set on concrete steps, with yellow caution tape and an orange bucket.
Stone treads set on the steps, with caution tape across them.

The landing

Each slab is laid on a combed bed of mortar, with green spacer crosses marking the joints. Edges are cut with a grinder at a cutting bench.

A slab laid on a combed bed of mortar, with green spacer crosses marking the joints.
A slab on a combed mortar bed, with spacer crosses at the joints.
A gloved hand holding a grinder against the edge of a pale slab on a cutting bench.
Finishing the edge of a slab at the cutting bench.

Finished

Pale grey steps rise to a landing with a black metal railing, and the landing is tiled.

A finished porch landing of large pale slabs beside a black metal rail, with two chairs on the right.
The tiled landing beside the black metal railing.

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