Deck progress

There has been steady progress on our new deck, thankfully.

One young man was the whole demolition crew, and by the end of Day 1 he had removed all of the vertical metal bars from the railing, and nearly all of the flooring.  All the parts and pieces had been put into the trailer in our driveway for the trash and any mess was cleaned up. 

At the end of Day 2 (Friday) he had everything torn out and the space all ready for the building crew to arrive on Monday morning.

By the end of Day 3 (Monday) the 2 guys doing the building had fill dirt added along the house where things had been sinking.  All of the bracing was attached to the house, and the wood was cut for the underneath framing.

Day 4 (Tuesday) saw all the floor stringers done and the beginning of the actual floor of the deck.  

Day 5 (Wednesday) ended with the flooring completely done and the steps partially done.  One of the black posts for the railing is laying near the step area in this photo.  

Thursday was Day 6, and began with a light drizzle of rain.  I wondered if the crew would show up to work on the deck, but they did.  And the rain stopped.  The steps you can't see, but they are done.  And the railings began to go up.  The one lying by the house will actually be the gate.  We put a gate on the old deck to corral the little kids and the dogs, but found it also kept deer and other big critters off the deck.  The raccoons just go over the gate unfortunately.  LOL

Day 7 (Friday) has it all done except for some of the skirting.  The black railings look nice with the warm brown of the floor.  And there are lights on the post caps. The hardware for that gate, and the skirting should all arrive by the end of this coming week so they'll install that when it comes in.  

Now to get everything moved back onto the deck - the grill, the table and chairs, and the flower pots.  Yesterday morning Dave scrubbed the table and chairs so they are ready to replace.  He hasn't decided if he's going to replace all the bird feeders that used to hang just outside the railings.