This weekend Dan and his friend Nate redid our front deck. It had to be redone. Ed built it 20 years ago and the wood was rotting. When Dan, Nate, and Matt were here in early May they said how I didn't need to hire someone, they could redo it.
So they selected Memorial Day weekend to do the job. Funny, somehow Matt ended up needing to work, so he wasn't here to help. But Dan and Nate came home and Saturday morning we headed out to Home Depot to get our materials.
The job took longer than expected. We thought we could use all the old framing but all the joist hangers had to be replaced and stair strings also needed to be redone. Day 1 was demolitioning the old deck (which I enjoyed doing but they make it look so easy on TV) and then putting new joist hangers in and redoing the joists. Day 2 was laying the decking and completing the stairs. Day 3, Nate had to leave in the morning. But Dan stayed and the two of us did the railings.
We still have the stair railing to do because Home Depot was out of the needed materials for that. But at least we can get into the front door and we'll plan to do the stair railings in a few weeks. I think it came out really nice and I think Ed would have been very proud of what a good job they did.
Thanks guys!!
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| Dan & Nate at Home Depot |
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| Demo'ing - Harder than it looks! |
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| Redoing joists |
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| New 4x4s in place, now working on decking. |
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| End of Day 2 |
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| Just need to do the railings for the stairs! They did good! And I helped! |
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1 comment:
Wow! Kudos to Dan, Nate and Matt for doing a great job in redoing your front deck. It’s really a great advantage to have such helpful friends like them who are always willing to lend you a hand. At least, you don’t have to hire and pay someone to get the job done. Anyway, I love the new railings of your stairs. Thanks for sharing that! All the best!
Max Hall @ Schafer Construction Inc
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