A truck turned up across the road and sat there for most of a morning with a generator running. You can see the new stair treads leaning on the fence.
The day before someone had tied up the top of the stairs with red and white plastic tape. It didn't deter anyone from using the stairs
So, now we have repaired stairs. The only problem is that the long bits the steps are attached to are rotten and it won't be long before the whole system collapses so the tread replacements were kind of like putting sticking plaster on a broken leg. Someone could have painted some wood preservative on it all when it was built - that might have helped. Or they could have used properly treated timber but we guess that is expensive.
However you cut it, even with repairs, they are still rickety stairs to the beach.
They had left the old steps lying under the stairs. They would have been a good firewood supply if we knew anyone with a working fireplace. (Friend Pili has a non-working fireplace that fills her living room with smoke.)
i will never understand why people will climb over, under or through a barrier that is plaining put there to stop us. it looks like they will need more wood to repair the rest. common sense appears to have disapeared these days
ReplyDeleteI come from a culture where warnings are obligatory, deciding whether they apply to you is your own problem. We can't sue anyone for injury by accident; the law doesn't provide for it. We do have a sort of national insurance scheme that will provide what is required to rehabilitate as far as possible anyone who suffers injury. So if I see red tape on rickety stairs, I get the message that someone regards them as unsafe, and then I make my own decision about whether I'll take the risk. (Risk being the chance of an event and the likely severity of the outcome.) Some people, maybe most, don't actually make a risk assessment, they just think someone is being unnecessarily cautious, and simply step over it.
DeleteA stairway to heaven... unless you tread very carefully?
ReplyDeleteOr a stairway to a short drop into some really prickly bushes and the really nasty stuff that humans leave under the stairs!
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ReplyDeleteOne of those "it'll be right till someone actually dies" fixing-uppings, then... I guess, given what you've shown of the pavements/sidewalks around your crib, folk are anyway more inclined to watch where they put their feet, with no expection of guaranteed safety! Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
No one is gonna die, but they might get a helluva fright... They are more likely to hurt themselves taking a tumble negotiating the rocks from there to the sea. You are probably right about being conditioned to mind the the surface underfoot. xxx Mr T
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