Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Deck Project

So, a few weeks ago, Brook's dad told us he knew some lady who was tearing down her old deck and getting a new one. She was just going to throw away all of the lumber from her old deck. We very quickly decided we would take it. We've wanted to extend our deck ever since we moved into this house and this was the perfect opportunity. Brook, a few of his friends and Dale, collected this lady's old lumber and brought it to our house. The demolition of our old deck and the construction of our new deck has now begun! Our hope is to have it completed by the fall. I did manage to find an old picnic table on craigslist for $20 so we'll stain it and use it for eating, but we still want to purchase a couple more chairs. Any suggestions?

Here are a few before pics...



I mixed concrete for the first time. 1 bag of quickcrete and 2 coffee cans of water!

I dug this little trench. It was EXTREMELY hard work, especially in the 100 degree heat.
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The last post hole!!!! We were so excited, so I had to document this moment.

Our helper----he really didn't help that much except supervise and nap in the cool dirt.





Building your own deck is such hard work. I've never helped with anything like this, so it is a great experience. I appreciate people who do this for a living because it is not easy!!! I'll try to post pictures of our progress throughout the rest of the summer. Thank you, Dale, for helping us out with this project!!! :)

2 comments:

  1. Try Atwoods in Siloam or Fort Smith for some chairs. Bart and I met at the one in the Fort, working summers in college. It's getting late enough in the season that their lawn furniture should be going on clearance soon - at least by August.

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  2. YAY! I love a good deck. Maybe in the fall you can put a TV out there and watch football games when the weathers nice!

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