Going to Build

New Deck After almost 5 years

Ive been busy with all kinds of stuff of late, and not posting so I thought I would post photos of the latest project.

I had thought I would work with someone to build a replacement for the old deck I tore down before our sun-room was built, but after getting into the planning and getting quotes from contractors, I decided that I would have someone build it instead.

This is what we had when we bought the house in 1994.  The screen-porch was 12x12 and the deck 8x15.  By the time I tore down the deck, it was nearly falling down.

In 2007 the deck came down and the screen-porch got stripped down to become part of a new sun-room.

This is just after the sun-room completed.  No pad underneath and the posts not clad yet.

This is my final design idea.

The first ledger for the deck.

End of the first day, about half the framing done.  If I were doing it, I would only have about a tenth this much done.

End of second day, the framing completed.

The decking arrived at the end of the day.

To reduce the up-keep, we decided to go with an aluminum decking.  Turned out to not be any more expensive than the newer composites.   With all the trees we have, keeping the debris cleaned from the openings between deck boards is a real pain.  There are no openings with this material, so much less up-keep.  It creates a water proof cover of the area below, but we are not using it for that property.  We also have a problem with squirrels gnawing on the composite I used to build the front porch and walk, shouldnt have that issue with this.

Southern Industries/Archadeck of Augusta is the contractor and the product is AridDek from Wahoo Decks.  We are also using aluminum railing from Wahoo Rail.

Tomorrow the decking starts to go down.

Part 2