Hey! We finished the deck yesterday. We had it all done except for trimming the ends where the boards overlapped on Thursday, but after working in the heat all day both of our brains were fried and I didn't want to mess it up so we left if for Friday.
I decided to add a couple of 2x6s to one of the joists on the long run by the back of the house. While I made the run to Home Depot for the lumber Jack cut the 12' deck boards in half so that they were ready to go when we got the joist shored up.
I had cut the boards around the posts on the porch to remove them and was just going to cut the new boards to fit around the posts, but we decided to use the jack from my car and a 4x4 to lift the porch so we could slide the boards under the posts. Young Jack was surprised at my engineering skill and ability to come up with a jury rigged solution to the problem. Kids are easily impressed, I guess. Ha!
All in all, it took about a week and a little less than $1000 in materials to do the job.
I am very happy with the finished product.
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I decided to add a couple of 2x6s to one of the joists on the long run by the back of the house. While I made the run to Home Depot for the lumber Jack cut the 12' deck boards in half so that they were ready to go when we got the joist shored up.
I had cut the boards around the posts on the porch to remove them and was just going to cut the new boards to fit around the posts, but we decided to use the jack from my car and a 4x4 to lift the porch so we could slide the boards under the posts. Young Jack was surprised at my engineering skill and ability to come up with a jury rigged solution to the problem. Kids are easily impressed, I guess. Ha!
All in all, it took about a week and a little less than $1000 in materials to do the job.
I am very happy with the finished product.
thumbnail_IMG_5516.jpg thumbnail_IMG_5518.jpg thumbnail_IMG_5521.jpg thumbnail_IMG_5522.jpg thumbnail_IMG_5523.jpg
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