Stairs

The upstairs is almost completely framed in. Just a few odd's and ends to finish up. I love that it's coming along so good. Our current issue with working upstairs is we don't have stairs to get up there. We either have to go outside and climb up a ladder into an upstairs window or we do have this small opening in my kitchen that we can again climb a ladder to get into. It's a little difficult to get tools and materials up there. 

And so before we finish anything else upstairs Kory decided it was time to build our stairs. We knew this was going to be the next "major" project. It took us a full week to get them in. 

He had to cut some of the new and old trusses and then reinforce them.

That whole in the ceiling that we cut out will be the stair opening. 

A friend, Ben Sorenson, came over and helped Kory cut the stringers out. This took hours! They measured, re measured, calleda mutual friend who is a contractor to confirm, re measured, called a different friend who has lots of stair experience to confirm, re measured and then finally cut them!

Once the stringers were cut and installed things finally began to move a bit more quickly. 

Kory and Hunter screwing the treads on. 

Maddie starting to clean up the mess of this day. 

What a project this was. I knew it was going to be time consuming having to reinforce the old and new trusses, moving insulation aside and previous wiring and building the strucutual post at the bottom to help hold the weight and the actual stairs. But I had no idea that it would take us the whole week working 2 full Saturdays and a few hours each night. Man am I glad that's done!

  

Got to say, it is so AWESOME to have stairs we can use to get up and down on.