For many months Cally had been worrying about what we were going to do for stepping up to the back door. Whilst working on converting the back I'd improvised with a set of decorators aluminium step ladders. Our most important prerequisite was to have a permanent solution that we could easily climb the 5½ft into the box and that Molly can get up. This meant that we would need a set of stairs/steps rather than what is commonly used; a fitted ladder.

Lucky for us we knew a handy old boy of a fabricator called Dave who offered to help make our steps. The next hurdle was to pin him down for a day so we could get the work done. When that day arrived, Dave done a bit of thinking, head scratching and some cigarettes smoking and figured out how to make the best set of steps I've ever seen. It basically involved cutting out 3mm aluminium sheet, folding the pieces in the right places and then bolting it all together.

Here's Daves handy work...

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