Deck Remodel – Thursday (day 8)

Sorry if anyone had trouble getting to the site.  This evening I ended up moving it to a regular hosting site as the free one just wasn’t up a lot of the time and I got a little tired of dealing with it and not being able to publish a post until their server(?) was back up.

I did manage to get one more post in today.  The footing I poured yesterday had set up nicely.  I trimmed off the excess re-bar pin and moved another 6×6 into place, made sure all was level, drilled the holes for the carriage bolts, and got it snugged down.  I noted the wood really perspired a lot of moisture around the washers when I tightened the nuts…   that accounts for a majority of the weight.

This is the 3rd post put in now.

Deck Remodel – Wednesday (day 7)

Not much progress today. I braced a portion of the outer face board in order to pull down another post. Then I backed out the lag screws attaching the face to the post.  Unfortunately this time the post came out of the ground along with the concrete pad. Like many other parts of the existing […]

Deck Remodel – Tuesday (day 7)

Sometimes it pays to go a little overkill on things.  For instance today I bought some carriage bolts for the deck posts.  They are a lot bigger than the ones that are originally were in there.   In fact, the ones that were there were mostly just small lag screws and had almost rusted to around […]

Deck Remodel – Monday (day 6)

Another short day of work.  I spent half of it replacing a receptacle that didn’t have power to it… and still doesn’t!  I did manage to get one of the posts up.  It is a post that didn’t exist previously. I had a little bit of trouble even moving it into place and putting it […]

Deck Remodel – Saturday (day 5)

Today Vic and I worked on removing the wire fencing around the base of the posts.  I think I may put a wood fence back around the bottom when we are done depending on how it all feels.  We also dug and poured two footings for the additional posts I am planning on adding.  Here’s […]