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5/29/04 - Memorial Day Weekend... |
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| I got the wood delivered from Home Depot to complete the main deck. That's a lot of wood, and the kids immediately found something to climb- until I cut the straps... | This is as far as I got. The piers are a real pain to position. They have to be exact, or the deck may be askew. And once they're positioned, they need to be leveled, which is also a pain. Once the positioning and leveling is done, I cut them to length using the laser level. | |
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| It seems no matter how hard you try to level these things out, either things settle after they're in, or whatever, but I needed to adjust as I started laying the joists down. I ended up with a ton of these little wood chips. Some places I had to cut, other places, I had to put some of these chips under the 4x4's. All in all, everything went well, and there are no boards teetering. | This is the completed frame. | |
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| The plans don't mention these spacers, but since I had to join boards together in the middle, the joints seemed to bow. To keep them evenly spaced, I just threw some 2x4 scraps between them. That made them much straighter. | 6/7/04 - About 1/3 of the surface planks are done. I still need to do some cross-bracing around the perimeter on the deeper side (only need to cross-brace if it's over 30" high), and I have to screw those surface planks down. At this point, they're just screwed down on the ends for placement. | |
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to go: - finish deck surface & screw down - cross-bracing - steps - bench - railing - sanding rough edges |
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