Deck Part 1 Spring/Summer 2009
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Day 1 Original Deck 		 
The Original Railing 		 
Original Deck Posts 		 
Original Deck Posts in the ground
 
Old Deck Top of Post 		 
Deck Post Bottom 		 
Railings Removed 		 
Removing Decking
 
Removing Joists 		 
Rotten Sheeting 		 
Rotten Sheeting 		 
Day 2 Deck Rot
 
Rotten Header 		 
Rotten Studs 		 
Rotten Sill Plate 		 
Deck Rot
 
three lally posts 		 
Day 3-4 Temporary Beam 		 
Beam on Lally Post 		 
Day 5 emoving Header
 
Nail Remover 		 
Nail Remover Closeup 		 
New Header 		 
Nailing the Header
 
Day 6 The Last Stud Standing 		 
Removing Studs 		 
Just half a stud left 		 
The New Wall
 
The New Wall 		 
Day 7 Insulation 		 
Cutting insulation to size 		 
Insulation all taped up
 
Sheeting 		 
Sheeting is Done 		 
Day 8 Housewrap 		 
Housewrap done
 
Ledger board temporarily nailed in 		 
Day 9 Deck Layout 		 
Leveling Ledger Spikes 		 
First Stake
 
All ledger stakes 		 
batterboards 		 
Engineering Control Centre 		 
Outer Rim String
 
Parallel Batterboards 		 
More layout lines 		 
Lines not in right position 		 
Painted Centre of post hole
 
Painters Tape 		 
trying to get square 		 
Crop Circles 		 
Big foot
 
End of Day 		 
Day 10 digging first hole 		 
Oh oh 		 
Oh oh closeup
 
bye bye Don 		 
Don is back 		 
Digging 2nd hole view from house 		 
boulders
 
Day 11 preparing the holes 		 
getting the gravel 		 
dumping gravel 		 
accusations
 
Big foot all set up 		 
Trimming Sonatube 		 
Fitting Sonatube on bigfoot 		 
big foot in the hole
 
Terry helping out 		 
Backfilling 		 
3 filled holes 		 
Beer Break
 
extra fill 		 
end of day 11 		 
Day 12-13 Avoiding Hydro Lines 		 
Final Holes
 
Serious Precision 		 
Goodbye Don 		 
Gravel 		 
day 14-18 backfilling
 
Day 19-20 concrete 		 
moving the bags 		 
fill 'er up 		 
Mixing the concrete
 
Mixing the concrete 		 
concrete consistency 		 
more shoveling 		 
cutting rebar
 
Rebar 		 
pushing in rebar 		 
Pusing the rebar down 		 
Rebar
 
j bolt ancher is in 		 
Simpson post saddles 		 
taking a break in NC
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