Front Steps and Stoops in Lakeville
For 8,433 of Lakeville's 9,867 two-story houses, the front entry was added no earlier than 1993.
10 Years
Workmanship warranty, in writing
The Entry on a Lakeville Two- Story
On the county record, two-story houses are the majority of those built in 1993. The first wave, about 2,000 houses built from 1993 to 1999, now has entries 27 to 33 years old, which is old enough that a stoop can be a repair question. Nearly half of the 8,433 went up in 2010 or later, and a call about one of those may be about adding something as much as fixing it. Between the two sit the 2,276 built from 2000 to 2009, with entries now 17 to 26 years old, where either call is possible: a stoop that has moved and needs work, or a sound one that could take stone over it.
On a two-story of this era, the front door may sit a few risers above the walk, with a stoop in front of it. Sam finds the builder steps on Lakeville houses from the 1990s and 2000s, in poured concrete or stone, and which one you have sets the route.
Poured concrete steps are repaired or rebuilt in concrete. Stone steps are reset, repointed, or rebuilt. On a younger house whose concrete steps are still sound, natural stone can go over them, and the concrete stays where it is. That route suits the newest of these houses: of the 1,587 built from 2020 onward, the poured steps are no more than six years old, so the reason to redo one of these entries is likely how it looks.
The Two-Story Houses From Before 1993
Lakeville also has 1,434 two-story houses built before 1993, and the county dates 1,203 of them to 1985 through 1992, so their entries are now 34 to 41 years old. An entry that age can need a rebuild as easily as a repair. When stone steps are rebuilt, the footing under them stays if it is still good, and a new one goes in where it is not; Sam sees which one once the old steps are up.
A Porch Floor or a Stoop
Across Lakeville's three waves of two-story houses, from 1993 to 1999, from 2000 to 2009, and since 2010, the scope question at the front door is the same: what the door opens onto. Where it sits a few risers above the walk, a raised stoop and its steps are a front entry, which we repair and rebuild. A concrete pad laid at ground level is a slab, which we do not take on. A covered porch with a masonry floor is the less usual case: in Sam's experience, few houses have one. Where the steps do climb to a porch floor, what that floor is made of sets how much of the entry is ours.
Where Fieldstone Can Go
On a Lakeville two-story whose stoop sits a few risers up, the treads themselves can be fieldstone if you ask for it. Rounded fieldstone makes a less even step than flat-cut stone, so another option is fieldstone in the low walls on either side of the steps and a flat-cut natural stone, such as bluestone, for the treads.
Those low walls are their own job with their own price line. They are covered on our step side walls page and priced job by job, from $5,000 up. If you would like side walls with new steps, say so at the estimate, so both are priced on one visit, and you can see the two numbers side by side.
What a Lakeville Entry Costs
Every figure on this page depends on square footage and on what we find when we look.
Before you call
Every figure on this page depends on square footage and on what we find when we look. They are rough guides to help you decide whether to call, not quotes. The exact number comes after the visit, and the visit is free.
Lakeville Front Entry Questions
Our front door opens onto a covered porch with a poured concrete floor. Is the floor part of a stoop job?+
Laying brick or stone on top of a poured floor that is still in good shape is ours, and the steps up to it go in the same job; the concrete itself counts as a slab, which we don't pour or patch.
The porch at our front door has a wood floor. Is any of it your work?+
Not the wood floor itself: wood and composite are outside our work. Masonry steps leading up to it can still be ours.
Could you redo our steps in pavers to match the patio?+
No. Paver steps go to another trade.
What Customers Say
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What to Check at Your Front Door
Before you call, note:
- Whether the steps lead up to a porch, and what its floor is made of
- What the steps and stoop are made of, and whether you want fieldstone on the treads or in side walls