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<\/a>Some more joists. You can see my gas pipe for the fireplace is running under them. I thought about moving it, but when the decking is in place I'll never really see it again.<\/p><\/div>\n
We started pretty early today.\u00a0 My neighbor stopped by to tell me it was looking good.\u00a0 I think he meant it although I think my projects tend to be eyesores.. mainly while they are underway..\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was having a yard sale so there was a lot of traffic in the cul-de-sac this morning.\u00a0 The weather was nice. \u00a0 I slapped together a rolling miter saw stand.\u00a0 Up nice and high so I can see where exactly my cuts are going to land.\u00a0\u00a0 It also has pretty good-sized extension arms to help hold the boards while I was cutting.\u00a0 It saved a lot of time today and\u00a0 definitely helped my knees without having to get up and down all the time to make those cuts.<\/p>\n
Victor and I got all the joists except two up in place and then ran out of joist hanger nails.\u00a0 When we got back from ACE Hardware, Uncle showed up to lend a hand and we put up the final two joists pretty quickly.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The light colored ones are the new joists we put in between the old joists. The alternating colors reminds me of a circus tent..<\/p><\/div>\n
The decking actually went pretty fast.\u00a0 My brother and I probably spent as much time contemplating how the best way would be to cut the decking to look the best right up against the house.\u00a0 I think it turned out pretty well.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The guy responsible for the precision cuts on the decking. Here you can see him verifying the accuracy with his iPhone app. <\/p><\/div>\n
Some of the wood looked like it was from the “top of the bunk” that 84 Lumber delivered and was already changed a little by the sun.\u00a0 I don’t mind it really.\u00a0 Everything tends to end up nearly the same color in the end if you wait long enough.\u00a0 We probably won’t stain it for quite a while until we are sure it is totally dried out.<\/p>\n
Another thing I am trying, as I am keeping the original joist\/facial\/ledger board structure, was to paint on some copper based wood preservative.\u00a0 Vic did a good job keeping it off of himself and did all of the ledger board.\u00a0 I did the outside face boards and some of the joists that were more worse for wear.\u00a0 I hope it keeps the older wood around for a while longer.<\/p>\n