{"id":237,"date":"2011-06-18T12:39:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.davebaar.com\/wordpress\/?p=237"},"modified":"2011-06-18T12:39:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T20:39:30","slug":"new-stairs-for-the-old-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/18\/new-stairs-for-the-old-house\/","title":{"rendered":"New stairs for the old house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_238\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"size-full wp-image-238\" title=\"New stairs for the old house\" src=\"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/stairs-blog-8039.jpg\" alt=\"New stairs for the old house\" width=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/stairs-blog-8039.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/stairs-blog-8039-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/stairs-blog-8039-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New stairs for the old house<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nOur old house (100 years old this year -stay tuned for the birthday party!) in Kitsilano needed some new entrance stairs. Some of the old stairs were loose and rotted, and the underlying &#8220;stringers&#8221; of the framework were badly rotted. I&#8217;m surprised after looking at them that no one broke through. So, I built some new stairs. It was a big job to tear the old ones apart but the new construction was OK. The biggest job was cutting custom stringers. I used more stringers than the original design, which seemed a bit flimsy, and added a central support pillar. Here&#8217;s a photo of the new construction, nearly done.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe new framework is (hopefully) rot-resistant pressure treated wood, and the stuff on top is stained red cedar. Looks quite nice, IMO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our old house (100 years old this year -stay tuned for the birthday party!) in Kitsilano needed some new entrance stairs. Some of the old stairs were loose and rotted, and the underlying &#8220;stringers&#8221; of the framework were badly rotted. I&#8217;m surprised after looking at them that no one broke through. So, I built some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24,27,1],"tags":[123,124,128,181],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-pictures","category-repair","category-uncategorized","tag-house","tag-house-repair","tag-kitsilano","tag-renovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}