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Steps for Ma and Pa’s New House (Installed!)
Yesterday my brother and I took the folks to their new house so they could check it out for the first time and so we could install the steps and handrails that I had made to replace the broken ones. My sister was there to meet us and she had pulled the old steps out of the way. Luckily for us, the new stringer and treads mated perfectly to the 2×4 pieces that were originally on the house to hold the previous steps to the house. We set to screwing on the hand rails after that. It all did fit quite well. We used a cordless impact driver that I got for my birthday a few days earlier. It was noisy, but set the deck screws in nicely without stripping out the bit or the screw heads. I’ll maybe do a post later comparing it to my old drill that I used for most of the deck.
My brother took this picture of me sanding down the handrails.
After getting a bunch of splinters most every night when working on my deck, I wanted to make sure that the handrails would be nice and smooth for them!
Frame Project
My brother and I recently helped a friend with creating a frame for a special project. There were a few requirements though.. 1. The frame would need to be able to display a particular size art/contents from both sides 2. One side of the frame would need to be removable in order to slide in […]
Steps for Ma and Pa’s New House
Today I worked on building some back steps that go from the house to the patio of my parents new house. The original steps had entirely collapsed and fallen apart. My brother-in-law suggested I take some measurements and rebuild them. This sounded like a pretty good idea, especially because I had a few pieces of […]
Deck Remodel – Saturday (day 22)
Nearly done. We have the balusters and handrails up. We finished up putting the handrails today. I started putting up 2x6s but it just didn’t look right being the exact same width as the posts. So we went to the store and bought 2x8s instead. That had almost too much overhang though so I ended […]
Deck Remodel – Wednesday (day 21)
OK! I was able to get 3 sections of railing up tonight. That leaves 3 more sections to go and the top handrail. Tomorrow I don’t think I’ll have a chance to work on it as I have to cook for and watch the kids. Vic helped me a bit handing me balusters to screw […]