There used to be a deck wrapped around the house.  It was really old and not up to code anymore so I decided to knock it down.  Breaking it into pieces was trivial, getting rid of the old lumber was more troublesome and expensive, I had to rent a dumpster.  At that point, I had a door on the second floor that lead to nowhere.  It stayed like that for a couple of years until I finally got some time to build the stairs.

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