Monday, June 11, 2012

Decking in just one day

Very pleased - managed to build a 4.8m x 4m garden deck complete with 18 LED lights in just one day from scratch. I sourced some plastic adjustable feet from eBay which negated the need to construct the deck from the usual wooden posts, concreted into the ground. This new way allowed us to build the outer frame first, level it off using the adjustable feet (sat on concrete pad stones where necessary), before in-filling with joists. The feet are required every 1m or so, which also enabled the deck frame to be constructed from 3"x2" timber rather than the usual 6"x2", as it was so well supported. The whole frame is also fixed to the house wall using joist hangers too.