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Hi all.
I've got an old farmhouse with an exterior steel staircase that I want removed. The staircase is all painted steel with a couple of square tube section legs bolted to the floor and at the top it's got a couple of supports cemented in to the stonework.
I am tempted to try and remove it myself except I don't own any cutting equipment up to the job and I'm (just about) smart enough to accept that working at height on an unstable heavy item with iffy access is not the best place to learn how to use the big boys' toys. Plus it's a reverse jigsaw in that it needs breaking in to pieces to be able to remove it, but each piece has to be removed without rendering the rest too unstable to work on.
What sort of company do I need to contact to do this work? If I wanted a staircase supplied and installed it'd be easy to hit google for this but I'm a bit stumped about what sort of trade would do the reverse. I don't want to just ask on Facebook as I'll get every monkey with an angle grinder offering to do it to get the scrap and I'd quite like the house to be undamaged at the end of the process..
I suspect there's some value in it as scrap metal so I'd either just want someone to safely take it down and leave it for me to dispose of or I'd want the value of the metal to be factored in to the job.
Thanks for any suggestions!
I've got an old farmhouse with an exterior steel staircase that I want removed. The staircase is all painted steel with a couple of square tube section legs bolted to the floor and at the top it's got a couple of supports cemented in to the stonework.
I am tempted to try and remove it myself except I don't own any cutting equipment up to the job and I'm (just about) smart enough to accept that working at height on an unstable heavy item with iffy access is not the best place to learn how to use the big boys' toys. Plus it's a reverse jigsaw in that it needs breaking in to pieces to be able to remove it, but each piece has to be removed without rendering the rest too unstable to work on.
What sort of company do I need to contact to do this work? If I wanted a staircase supplied and installed it'd be easy to hit google for this but I'm a bit stumped about what sort of trade would do the reverse. I don't want to just ask on Facebook as I'll get every monkey with an angle grinder offering to do it to get the scrap and I'd quite like the house to be undamaged at the end of the process..
I suspect there's some value in it as scrap metal so I'd either just want someone to safely take it down and leave it for me to dispose of or I'd want the value of the metal to be factored in to the job.
Thanks for any suggestions!