the deck part 2

last weekend saw the four of us back at the deck's frame work. It took us most of the morning to get the last two new posts sunk in the ground and to get the first five rows of boards down. we decided to use the wall as our guide as it was the most squared to the deck.



the timber being used is a reclaimed hardwood from a local salvage yard. it is beautiful but very very hard. i had the job of pre-drilling all the nail holes. over a thousand in the end. while the team worked its way across the deck with a 3mm spacing in between each board.



after a long day (9 hours or so) we finally had all the boards down. it looked like a beautiful new indoor/outdoor space. this is just the first phase in the deck building. eventually the deck will run down the side of the house; from where the beam sticks out from under the deck in the above image and out to the left side of the image.



it is beautiful wood, and nice to use recycled materials in building as much as we could.

the only bad part was me feeling so old and out of shape at the end of it all with the back of my legs aching for the following four or five days from all the bending and drilling i did making it hard to walk! but it was worth it.