A Day in a Mundane Life: Working on my Deck Remodel (no trains, sorry)
Publicado 2024-04-15
Hi everyone,
If you are wondering why I am not commenting on videos or catching most livestreams, it is because I have been mired in a project at home since last Tuesday, April 9th.
I am remodeling my deck. We have a 14.5' W x 23' D that is in need of some cosmetic and addition work. I began demo on the old deck last Tuesday, worked on some repairs as I could through the non-stop rain of Wednesday and Thursday and began installing boards and such on Sunday, April 14th.
This is the 4th partial or whole remodel since the original deck (a 12' W x 12' D) was built in 2002. We built the original deck when we had a dining room built onto our small house. We also added a pool that year. In 2004 I built a 4' extension and upper level to our deck, so family and friends could go up into the pool from the deck, rather than using a ladder.
In 2013, we took out the pool and no longer needed the upper deck. Joyce wanted a grand deck for entertaining and just sitting to admire our garden. She came up with a design with the help of our two daughters... the current 14' W x 23' D deck, which I made with red cedar. This required re-doing some of the old structure and then expanding the width by 2 feet and length by 7 feet with new support... which needed some clever building and marrying the old and the new.
That deck was beautiful the first 4 years, but slow, little issues in the cedar (the rare knots and not taking the original stain and sealant well) led to some problems of the deck just looking less lovely. For a couple years we debated repairs or removing. We decided to go composite, but it was not in the budget. When we finally saved up enough to go composite, other work came up and we just were not happy with the composite in our price range... so natural wood it is, and I am doing it slowly.
Todos los comentarios (21)
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Looking good Anthony. What a nice area for family gatherings. Thanks for sharing. Regards Tom
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Amazing wood work skills Anthony, you have a beautiful home.
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"All hands on deck!" Deck is looking great. Fortunately where I live in the northern San Joaquin Valley of California wood decks last longer. I have a wooden bridge. I have replaced it twice in about 25 years. We have been in our house 35 years this month. Don't let the nail counters discourage you in your build. They probably never built anything in their lives. Rule One is key to me, "It's your deck build it the way you want. " I like the two Dodges in your driveway. I own a 2007 Chrysler PT Cruiser. Bill and Janet from California
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Rule no.1..its your decking do it your way!! Thats a nice looking neighbourhood you have Anthony. Plenty of space and grass. Thats cool to be able to do all that by yourself. More power to your elbow.
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Fun times, redid mine before Covid. Looking good and thanks for sharing. Dave
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Wow great work Mr Dodge sir 💯
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The deck is looking good. That will be nice when the weather gets good -Jenny
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Excellent work Anthony, your a talented man, deck looks superb so far. All the best and good luck with your endeavours. Brian.
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Nice work so far. It's looking great. Always a huge job replacing a deck. Adding a couple of layers of surface coat is bad enough. I have to reseal my deck again soon too so know all too well about doing that type of work. One advantage with Cedar is it's supposed to be insect resistant. Hope the new wood is good once the coating seals it. Good luck with completing the project. Will be worth it in the long run. 👍
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Anthony, great job, very talented regards Greg
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Glad to see it coming along, also good to hear you only had to replace a joist or 2 and the rest of the framing was still ok. also nice to know you actually found a true 5/4 board last ones I got were only 4/4. Deck is looking good. happy trails my friend
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Maybe a surprise/secret garden railway to be installed on this new deck, we need to wait for Anthony to finish this deck
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Arh the joys of DIY. I`m now pricing up upvc cladding
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nice tarres deer cool . ian
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Anthony dodge, the lumber outsider.
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Master Builder
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Hi Anthony 👍 I think your working harder now than you ever did before I don’t know how you had time to go to work 🤣🤣🤣
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Hi Anthony & other workmates, Well done for undertaking this big project and its so far looking good I hope there will be part two as having wetted our appitite it would be unfair to leave it at this. I would be interested to hear how you get on with the main steps with the risers being different heights as in the UK building regs this would not be allowed and yes it is outside but as humans we tend to move as the last movement was going up or down them and you can trip up easily thats why the regs are as they are. You will be pleased to know I did not miss the trains and it was great to see where the video magic comes from every week and also how open it is around you with hardly a seperating fence anywhere so nice to see. Cheers Robert.
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That was truly wonderful video Anthony. Fabulous to see where you live and broadcast from. I was surprised to see a house made of bricks. All the USA houses we see on our TV channels here in the UK show houses made of wood and bluetac in America! I am typically British and ignorant lol. I have referred to it as a house but of course, more importantly, it is a home and one of which Joyce should be very proud. As we get older, material stuff means less and those around us mean more. BY the way, did the neighbours ask you why you trying to video inside their house? :) As always my friends, stay safe, peace and love x
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Very nice. Want to come over to Indiana and help me rebuild my deck? LOL Looking great!
