My left knee is sore. Bounding up and down the dirt ‘steps’ to the basement is a chore. One cannot simply walk upstairs to the main floor with a bucket of dirt as there are no real steps.
So FHT and I build some stringers. The first one has cracks in it but seems to be stable.
With the second one, on the other hand, steps actually broke off in my hand. Splits in the wood made it impossible to keep stable steps in place, let alone have them bear weight. HFT suggested we add supports to the side of the stringer rather than abandoning the stringer altogether. (No pic yet. I’ll post later.)
In the mean time, we unloaded the remaining gravel into the sidewalk hole, wrapped up the cement bags, and worked below on another support beam. (Pics later.)
The support beam was a challenge. It simply refused to go into place. It eventually did. We need that beam there to cut out and replace the rotten one along the edge of the house.
Next: dig more dirt out to fit in the stringers. More knee-breaking work.
