Opening area under outdoor stairs
I live in a 4 story brownstone and am looking to clear out the area under the outdoor stairs to the Parlor floor entrance. I believe it is possible because I have seen other houses with it. I think it would be a perfect place for storing bikes, strollers, etc. Does anyone have any experience…
I live in a 4 story brownstone and am looking to clear out the area
under the outdoor stairs to the Parlor floor entrance. I believe it
is possible because I have seen other houses with it. I think it
would be a perfect place for storing bikes, strollers, etc.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Do you know anyone that can do this for me? Any advice on this would be appreciated.
Better watch it – Bad Ronald may be living in there!
don’t even think about it. i stored my maclaren strollers there over the summer for three weeks while we were out of own. came home to find them ruined!
In most cases the space under the stoop is a little storage area with a door under the stairs. I use mine for the garbage cans, snow melt and snow shovels. Since it does get damp I wouldn’t store anythin really nice in there. I’ll bet if you break through that wall you will find the storage space.
Just to be clear on my posting above- – there is now a ‘brownstone’ wall so I cannot see what is currently under the stairs. It may be empty or may be filled in with stone.
In my experience it is not so simple. This area was originally vented in most bs’s and if the air cannot circulate there are problems on the inside – the brownstone foundation sweats and you there is of course no heat in there so you get mold and mildew. Alternately if you leave it vented it will dry out ok but you will have moisture when it rains, snows. We left bikes in there for a couple of years and they completely rusted, but I have been warned against trying to seal it and make it into a storage area. Good Luck
These areas ARE usually storage space. You’re right–it’s “a perfect place for storing bikes, strollers, etc”. What’s the problem with yours? Is it filled in, walled off, full of c**P. leaky?
It’s unclear what you want to have done.