The weather continues to be not conducive to riding, so we haven't. Continued cold, sometimes brutally cold, and windy. They all have spent the night inside for what feels like weeks. The snow continues to cover the grass, and more predicted for tomorrow.
So, what would you do looking at a lousy weather weekend? Pull up the carpet on the stairs!
I erroneously surmised that the carpet was 2004 vintage, the back was stamped 2006. Poor carpet, it really had a rough, short life. We probably have not gone up those stairs fifty times since 2010, sometimes we don't go up there for a month or two at a time.
The stairs appear to have had a decorative woodwork removed, but not repainted. Some of the steps are not topped with a bull-nose board, making the rise different between the steps. The landing looks like a recently installed repair. I washed the risers and they don't look that bad. Unfortunately there are so many gaps between the stringer and the risers that we can't have them remain naked. We'll get them cleaned up and painted, preparing for carpet installation in the future.
We took the carpet and the rest of the junk to the dump, stopped by a bigboxstore for a piece of wood to repair the broken stringer.
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