I'm pondering back and forth how on earth I should proceed. The entrance is a bit up on the house, though just a couple of steps, and today it's a type of stone staircase with quite heavy stone foundations (rough, like Ölandssten or whatever they're called). Not particularly nice in my view and unfortunately built into the house itself, but in winter, the rough stone surface is really good when it comes to snow and ice formation. The steps rarely get slippery, and if needed, I can both salt and chip away ice with an iron directly against the stone.
Something that might look nicer is to remove the staircase and build a new wooden one that connects with the new deck I've planned. However, my concern is how it will be in winter? How can you keep a wooden staircase ice-free? Salting doesn't seem ideal, and hacking with an iron pole directly into the wood doesn't sound great either. Can you cover the entrance steps with some harder "anti-ice" material? How would you do it? Cover the whole staircase area with a roof or overhang?
I might need to take a closer picture with the camera, but I found an old real estate photo here from when I bought the place. Here you can see a bit of the entrance area. The idea is to build a slightly larger deck to the left of the gable (towards the back of the house) and let it meet the entrance.
The stairs currently consist of 4 steps and a larger stone slab at the top.
I intend to replace the entrance door and plan to tear up the entire section towards the stairs as I see it as a risk construction that the stairs are built into the house, especially considering that it is heavily exposed to moisture there against the door frame and sill (kicking off snow, etc.).
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