Ridiculously pleased with myself (Annie)

Our electric steps are crap (I typed "carp" first, which is almost as good).  They don't extend when they should, like when someone opens the door and steps out onto nothing.  I've spent tons of time working on them, removing the cotter pin to free the steps manually then greasing the holy hell out of them and pushing them in and out and in and out and in and out, ad nauseum.  Still carp.  I give up.  It's either replace the electric steps - did I mention they're expensive? - or do something different.

This idea came from someone on the rv.net forum, I just altered dimensions to fit our needs.  Today, I made steps!  I used 1 X 8 pressure treated board for the boxes, 1 X 6 decking board for the treads.

I made them in the living room of the Duck because it was raining and I'm delicate.

See the clasp?  They're two separate boxes, easier to store when not in use.  

Here they are apart:

And another:


Heck, let's just keep 'em coming.

Here's the back




Fini!


Next, I'm going to attach a couple of eyebolts so we can chain them to the Duck.  Don't want our pretty steps to grow legs and wander off.

In other news, I replaced a leaking bypass hose (for the water heater) yesterday and fixed a drippy bathroom faucet.