The side of these concrete steps has a sidewalk gutter system to transport water from the yard and sidewalk away from the house. This gutter had cracked and sunk into the ground resulting in the water running straight under the steps into the foundation (which is never good to have water under your foundation). To replace this, we removed the old sunken concrete and created a new patched concrete gutter along the stairs to continuously flow out to the street. Sadly, no before pictures were taken but the previous gutter was in pieces and recessed under the stairs.