Comment on Broken stair step

• wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can definitely glue it back. It just won’t ever be permanent. Those stairs are made to break.

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  • callcc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll give that a try. Why do you mean that they are meant to break? They have lasted for 60 years now, that’s not too bad.

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    • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those stairs have a bullnose that juts out and the whole thing is made from mortar. Mortar is very strong in compression but weak in tension. So a load on the tip of the stairs will put a large tension load on the top of that bullnose where it meets the stair corner. At some point it will break off.

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      • callcc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Makes sense.

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