Last winter, we realized that the decks both needed to be redone. The back deck was starting to rot and we weren’t fully trusting that the kids wouldn’t go through it if they played on it. It was on the back of our minds for awhile until July. In July, Morgan was crawling around out front and crawled all over the front deck ending up with splinters from his knees down to his toes. It took weeks for us to get them all out via soaking. That is when we decided it was time and they needed done sooner rather than later. We went ahead and got permission and put on Trex decking so there wouldn’t be anymore worries about splinters. It took us about 3 weeks to do both decks, but we were only doing it after Darrell got home from work because we were busy each weekend traveling to different cities.
Back deck shots: L – view from under the deck. R – wood while measuring distance between studs
So first things first – pull out the nails and remove the old wood
Then go shopping to get all the new wood. This was only half of it because it was too heavy for the van.
Then – replace the joists that were rotting, add new joists making the gap just right for the trex decking, and begin to place the new deck pieces. And rope your dad into helping when he has a load that goes through and stops for the night. 🙂
Then clean it up and place all of your patio furniture and grill back on and you have a beautiful new deck that you can enjoy without fear of splinters.
