Dear Brownstoners, Please bear with this longish story about my stoop repair.
\nAny comments and\/or recommendations would be highly appreciated.<\/p>
I have a brownstone stoop, which is a two sets of stairs connected by a 6X6 landing.
\nThere were a number of cracks in the landing, on the side of the landing and the bottom stairs which got worse this winter. I hired a guy who had done some repairs to other stoops in the neighborhood.. He did this as a sideline to a construction job he is part of on my block. The work he did on those stoops seemed OK \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he was charging a few hundred dollars and I thought that would solve my immediate problem of not making the stoop worse over the winter, though I did not want to rebuild the stoop. Well, he chipped away at the cracks as part of the repair process and it turns out this is a pretty big job now and there are tunnels and grooves all over the landing and its side, as well as on the bottom steps.. The guy himself seems to have no clue on how to match the colors (though we picked out a color and some tinted sand). Now I have a stoop with deep tunnels and grooves chipped into it where the cement was cracked or crumbly. <\/p>
The longer term good solution is to redo the stoop (and redo the surface of the brownstone as well) but my near term goal is to repair the stoop and match the color of Dear Brownstoners, Please bear with this longish story about my stoop repair. Any comments and\/or recommendations would be highly appreciated. I have a brownstone stoop, which is a two sets of stairs connected by a 6X6 landing. There were a number of cracks in the landing, on the side of the landing and the bottom…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-47109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/08\/stoop-repair-2\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Stoop Repair","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/08\/stoop-repair-2\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/08\/stoop-repair-2\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Brokers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"donatella"}],"creator":["donatella"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-08-04T10:45:36Z","datePublished":"2010-08-04T10:45:36Z","dateModified":"2010-08-04T10:51:32Z"},"rendered":"
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