Hello,
I recently had a stone staircase built along the carport on my hillside plot. However, the staircase is not laid at exactly the same slope as the wall towards the carport (see pictures), and along the facade, there is styrofoam wrapped in ground cloth with a yellow plastic protection over it. The idea was to fill up the gap between the facade and the steps with decorative stone, but as seen in the picture, the styrofoam protrudes one or more decimeters above the upper steps. Additionally, I'm not sure if it was correct for the craftsman to cut away part of the plastic protection at all, as it must serve some function? Perhaps relief so that what you choose to place against the facade does not crush the styrofoam?
My questions are thus;
1. What is the yellow plastic strip called? Where can I buy it if I want to replace it?
2. Do you have any suggestions on what can be done to cover the ugly gap that now exists between the staircase and the facade? One idea that occurred to me is to place corten steel between the steps and the styrofoam, and then fill up with decorative stone between the steel and the facade.
3. What is the function of the styrofoam? Insulation? Insulating what, in that case? Can part of it be cut away so that it does not sit so high up? That would have been a simpler measure than redoing the staircase. It's about a wall on the exterior of a carport.
I recently had a stone staircase built along the carport on my hillside plot. However, the staircase is not laid at exactly the same slope as the wall towards the carport (see pictures), and along the facade, there is styrofoam wrapped in ground cloth with a yellow plastic protection over it. The idea was to fill up the gap between the facade and the steps with decorative stone, but as seen in the picture, the styrofoam protrudes one or more decimeters above the upper steps. Additionally, I'm not sure if it was correct for the craftsman to cut away part of the plastic protection at all, as it must serve some function? Perhaps relief so that what you choose to place against the facade does not crush the styrofoam?
My questions are thus;
1. What is the yellow plastic strip called? Where can I buy it if I want to replace it?
2. Do you have any suggestions on what can be done to cover the ugly gap that now exists between the staircase and the facade? One idea that occurred to me is to place corten steel between the steps and the styrofoam, and then fill up with decorative stone between the steel and the facade.
3. What is the function of the styrofoam? Insulation? Insulating what, in that case? Can part of it be cut away so that it does not sit so high up? That would have been a simpler measure than redoing the staircase. It's about a wall on the exterior of a carport.
A professional landscaper had marked out the direction of the staircase after laying the first three steps or so. And then "trimmed" the insulation before the rest of the staircase was built. Now, I have no idea how it's going to be resolved.