Stairs Completed - and Look Spectacular

The lads from the Keighley firm of stair-manufacturers JRFabs Ltd paid a final visit today to do a few tail-end jobs on the external stairway such as making good the welds between sections of handrails and drilling five holes on the landing by the top entrance door so that water can drain away.

They certainly go the extra mile to make sure things look and are properly finished.  In this case they shifted the pile of stones that came out of the retaining wall below the stairs a) to get rid of the unsightly pile and b) to arrange them back loosely onto the retaining wall top so that builders Hopleys can cement them in place later.  Those handrails were in four or five pieces each welded together on site.  You simply cannot see or even feel the welded joints.  The stairs, landings and supports are complicated enough but those handrails are spectacularly impressive.  The dry stone wall backdrop really makes the picture complete.

Here then is the finished stairway - and mighty fine it all looks too:

When the rain-screen cladding is eventually in place this end of the building will be quite spectacular without being unduly showy.  Indeed it will look deliberately functional, as befits an adjunct to a water tower.

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