Well I took a few days off last week to work on building a deck with my dad. That was pretty fun, plus my brother was helping too so it was good to get outdoors and build something. Plus I got to play with a nail gun ... two words ... very cool. So now I'm settling back in to office work but I think my mind is still off (somewhere else with better weather than here) trying to build a deck. We did not get the deck finished by the end of the weekend but that's ok because we'd reather take a bit of time and build it right.
I might see if I can mock it up in google sketchup later on.
Here is the first lot of photos, these are the first part of the deck i.e. the foundations.
As you can see, two of the three bearers are in place and my dad is digging a hole for some more posts. Here is the same thing from the side:
In the following shot you can see how the bearers are actually contructed.
We spent pretty much the whole of the first day finishing off the posts and bearers. On the second day we put the top bearers on, which looked a little like this:
Here is the side view:
Pretty much all of the second day was used up by putting on this second layer of bearers and painting both them and ther decking timber. A lot of the third day was spent preparing the decking timber too. I was not there on the fourth day but my brother was. On the fourth day my brother and my dad started to place and fasten the decking timber down. The next set of photos are on the fifth day when we had placed the decking timber.
We are currently up to half way on the deck and will continue next weekend. Here's how the deck looked at the end of yesterday.
All in all we're pretty happy with the way it is going so far but we will be much happier once it is done.
