Monday, July 20, 2026 at 2:28 p.m.
Here is the staircase removed. We removed it on July 9th so the contractors could slope the stone under the paving. The bottom of the staircase was two inches lower than the bottom of the door. They replicated that slope exactly. Ideally, the paving would have been done before the stairs, but our general contractor needed to complete the deck to get paid. So they built the stairs first. Then it was removed, then the ground paved and then it was reinstalled. After the staircase was reinstalled, we initially thought that it was at the wrong angle, but after measuring, it was fine. It was the glass wall on the flat part of the deck that was not vertical and gave the illusion that the stairs' angle was shallower.
