Building the new deck

  1. One of the big jobs that I had taken on this summer was to build a new deck at home as I had got sick of my wife telling everyone that I had a small deck so I had to change this. I got Gary Allan in to help start the deck as we worked together to put down the piles the bearers and Josts then I took over to finish the top of the deck. For the top of the deck we decided on using Kwila which is an expensive hardwood. At $6.60 per meter it was not cheap. after a quick measure up we ordered 800 meters of timber and 4000 screws. This turned out to be the perfect amount of timber as we had nothing left over. There was quite a few hours spent with Janice drilling the holes while I screwed it all together.


Deck almost finished