My wife and I had a problem with the "steps" outside our "back door", if you don't mind what you say.
We call it the "back door", but it's at the side of the house, near the back corner. And we called them "steps" but they were actually concrete slabs, stacked and broken.
They were never properly grounded; they had shifted over the years and they were tilted in, toward the house. So water collected there, and the steps were always wet and moldy, except when they were icy, and we'd been hoping they would fix themselves, but that didn't happen, so we decided to do something about them.
At first we thought if we poured a cement cap over them and slanted it away from the house, that would do the trick, but then we had a home building specialist come and look at them and he could see that they were still moving. He told us pouring more concrete over the problem would only make it worse. And it was hard to argue with that.
But I did argue when he said the best thing we could do would be to rent a dumpster, score the concrete with a diamond-tipped saw, bust it up with a jackhammer, and haul it to the dumpster one piece at a time in a wheelbarrow.
"You could do it in a weekend," he said, "but you'd be sore by the time you were done!"
I couldn't believe it! That is so September 10th thinking! It was as if he had never seen the World Trade Center collapse.
I said, "Why don't we just crash an airplane into them?"
He laughed and said "That would be dangerous. What about the neighbors?"
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