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We got a lot of use out of our big above ground swimming pool when the boys were at home, but once they went off to college we seldom used it and we sold it and dismantled the deck I had built around it. That was a little over 4 years ago. Mrs. Faulkner said she wanted a new deck built and gave me some vague ideas of what she wanted. That was about 4 years ago.

I've kind of been putting it off . . . for about 4 years.

Mrs. Faulkner has been poking at me to build her a new deck. For about 4 years.

I've been dreading it, yep, for about 4 years.

But, no sense putting it off forever so I told her back in the fall that I would get a crew and we'd build it this winter in time for spring.

I ordered the material the week of Thanksgiving. The lumber would be in a couple of weeks, but the composite decking by TREX had a longer lead time and wouldn't be in until after Christmas. Turns out it was more like the middle of January.

We demo'ed the old deck the last week in January and started on the new project the first week of February. I must have been out of my mind committing to do the project in the middle of winter because it was cold, most days the highs in the low 30's. Even so, we made steady progress each day and after the first week Mrs. Faulkner brought her a folding chair out and gave it a test run.


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After having provided basic (and vague) design instructions for the deck over the past 4 years, I had drawn out design plan before we started and had received Mrs. Faulkner's approval. Unfortunately, though, after her little test run of the deck she decided on a few minor change orders. First, she decided she wanted a pergola that was not in the original design. Second, she wanted to change from wood railings to metal railings. In actuality, neither of these were much of a problem.

We had to order more material for the pergola and the metal railings. The pergola material we picked up the next day, the railings would take a few days to come in. Problem was, we were watching the weather reports and we were seeing predictions of the impending snowmageddon bearing down on us in the next few days.


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We were able to finish he pergola just as the first round of winter weather moved in, the sleet and freezing rain. The metal railings were delivered the same afternoon we finished the pergola and the crew and I debated weather to wait out the storm or proceed. The consensus was that the weather forecast was indicating a day and a half between the sleet and freezing rain before the snow arrived. We decided to make use of the day and half.

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Wow, that is one rather large project.

You appear to have a very nice view, enjoy it.
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We started installing the metal railings early the next morning. The fact that the deck was covered in a thin layer of ice and the temperature was in the 20's was certainly a handicap. I told the guys that safety was key, I didn't want anyone falling and getting hurt.

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Fortunately, the snow held off all day and we were able to make good progress, but man was it cold. We were able to wrap up the railing installations and still had enough time to install the solar light caps on all the post just about when it was getting dark.


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We had timed it about right because we didn't get the extra half day as forecasted. At about 6:00 am next morning the snow moved in and snowed hard for two days. But this was only round 2, round 1 was the sleet and freezing rain of earlier in the week, then the 8 inches of snow we got in round 2, and we still had round 3 coming with another 8 - 10 inches of snow.

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Here I don't see much point in a deck if your backyard does not drop off and is flat. So i poured a concrete patio seventeen years ago.
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I was able to get a slight break in the snow for a quick drone flight for some pictures. The picture below was taken at about the 12 inch level of snow. That's a lot of snow considering we've not received a combined 12 inches of snow in the past 10 years.


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The final tally on the snow was 16 inches, and although the temperatures stayed in the single digits for several days the sun did eventually come out.

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Even with the snow, Mrs. Faulkner was tickled to get her 4 year deck project completed. She with camera in hand and Daisy got out and tried it out once the snow stopped falling and she enjoyed her first time on her new deck.

When she came inside, though, she asked, "can you hang a porch swing under the pergola, and if so, can I have it sooner than 4 years? Doesn't have to be today, whenever the snow melts will be just fine."


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Well, now the snow is all gone and if you look real close in the picture below you can see a new porch swing hung under the pergola, and she only had to wait 4 days for me to finish that part of the project.

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Here I don't see much point in a deck if your backyard does not drop off and is flat. So i poured a concrete patio seventeen years ago.
Well in just a cursory look at the fantastic photos... it looks to me like the main level living space which is ground level at the front of the house is a whole house level -up- from ground out the back where your patio would be.

It seems to me that they can now walk out of their main living space directly on to a beautiful deck... without walking down steps to a patio and back up steps to the main space. And I will guess also inside/outside to the kitchen, which is an obvious support to the entertaining that might happen on the deck.

Back and forth to the kitchen without up and down stairs? It looks like a fine idea to me.
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Good insight from someone called ladder13...
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not that it matters but i like it. a lot. great job. krs/kenny
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Well in just a cursory look at the fantastic photos... it looks to me like the main level living space which is ground level at the front of the house is a whole house level -up- from ground out the back where your patio would be.

It seems to me that they can now walk out of their main living space directly on to a beautiful deck... without walking down steps to a patio and back up steps to the main space. And I will guess also inside/outside to the kitchen, which is an obvious support to the entertaining that might happen on the deck.

Back and forth to the kitchen without up and down stairs? It looks like a fine idea to me.
You are correct, the main living space is at ground level. The house sits on a hill so when we built the house placed it on the top of the ridge and dug out the basement from the back side of hill. The picture below gives an indication of the elevation of the hill.

The bay area contains the kitchen dining and the kitchen, as you step in the double door the kitchen is just to the left, so yes, the deck is quite handy to the kitchen.

The next phase of the project is the patio area below the deck. I plan to turn it into a pavilion type area with a large open fireplace/BBQ pit at one end and provisions for big screen television.

Concurrent with phase 2 is a garden area out from the deck (where the pool used to be). Mrs. Faulkner is fond of Japanese maples and such, we we've been working on a landscaping plan.

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Nice! Wrap some cammo around the pergola posts and ya gots a deer stand.
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That was a specific request of Mrs. Faulkner.

She has hinted that we may need to put a gate up too. She's not been happy with the muddy paw prints on her new deck. I've explained that the mud is a by product of the construction and once it warms up and the grass seed I've already sown comes up the muddy paw print issue will go away.
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No doubt. I took this picture one morning standing on the unfinished deck while I was waiting on my crew to arrive. We've got six whitetail does that we see in the pasture behind the house several times a week.

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Heck no . . . why do you think I put off this project for 4 years. I have the ability, but not the desire to do this type of work.
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Very nice and a big project for sure. Envy you to live in an open area like that. Heck you’re wife waited 4 years for you to build it and we waited 4 yrs to see it, about time. Nice place to sit and enjoy the view, Larry
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Nice deck!

(BTW, you've got some weenie in your parking area to the side of the house. Looks like he's flying a drone...)
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Nice job! Very well executed too. Looks like the four years of planning really paid off��. You have a beautiful place and a great view. Most importantly you have a happy wife!
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We also had an above ground pool that got a lot of use when our son was growing up. It was a 15x30 and had a wood deck along one side. It wasn't getting much use after he grew up and at 19 years old it was in need of major repairs so I took it out and used the old deck as a floor for a workshop building. That's the white sided building in the pic.

So we didn't have a pool for 6 years but then the wife decided she wanted another one. I installed a new 15x30 above ground and having been very disappointed in the wood deck we had before, this time I went with composite and built a 16x16 deck along one side and a walkway 3/4 of the way around the pool. I was working for a building materials distributor at the time and got a deep discount on the deck materials but it was still very expensive.





That pool is now 9 years old but both pool and deck are in good condition. The problem is that my wife died two years ago and I have no interest in a pool at all. I can't quite bring myself to tear it all out as I have so much money in it, but it's pretty useless to me.

So I open it for a month or so each year just to keep everything working but I kind of feel like that's a waste of money as well.
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Very nice, and in your defense concerning the lead time.... if the Mrs wanted it 4 years ago she probably should have mentioned it 8 years ago. Oh well, now she knows.
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Very nice work! I wish I had the talent to do that myself.
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(BTW, you've got some weenie in your parking area to the side of the house. Looks like he's flying a drone...)
Ha, from the lack of detail in that picture it could just as easily be someone standing there with a shotgun daring the drone to get closer.
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Nice looking deck. What do your posts rest on? I can't see a concrete base or sono-tube is why I ask? Either would be standard here with 5' of frost possible.
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Nice looking deck. What do your posts rest on? I can't see a concrete base or sono-tube is why I ask? Either would be standard here with 5' of frost possible.
Each posts rests on a concrete base.
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Nice work, I used Trex When I replaced the porch at the lake years ago, Trex was then state of the art. I loved working with it, saving the shavings when pre-drilling the holes then using stainless flooring screws and smashing the shaving back into the hole, later the holes literally disappeared. It weathered very nicely and offered a non-skid surface as well.

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Turned out nice. The combination of metal balusters,railing and caps looks good against the wood and trex I put it off for four years: project now complete

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I had the 25' pool competed in May of 2020. I started on the deck and made enough to get to the pool. I stopped when it got too hot to work on it and did some more in the fall. Then it got too cold and I quit again. It warmed back up and I finished it last week. It's a grandkid magnet. Yours looks better than mine but it'll do.
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We also had an above ground pool that got a lot of use when our son was growing up. It was a 15x30 and had a wood deck along one side. It wasn't getting much use after he grew up and at 19 years old it was in need of major repairs so I took it out and used the old deck as a floor for a workshop building. That's the white sided building in the pic.

So we didn't have a pool for 6 years but then the wife decided she wanted another one. I installed a new 15x30 above ground and having been very disappointed in the wood deck we had before, this time I went with composite and built a 16x16 deck along one side and a walkway 3/4 of the way around the pool. I was working for a building materials distributor at the time and got a deep discount on the deck materials but it was still very expensive.





That pool is now 9 years old but both pool and deck are in good condition. The problem is that my wife died two years ago and I have no interest in a pool at all. I can't quite bring myself to tear it all out as I have so much money in it, but it's pretty useless to me.

So I open it for a month or so each year just to keep everything working but I kind of feel like that's a waste of money as well.
I had an above ground pool for when my kids were growing up. It was great for the kids and their friends, and myself, I enjoyed it a lot. I moved from that place and was without a pool for almost 25 years. I had another installed last May and not only is it a grandchild magnet, but I enjoy it also. I especially enjoy floating around in it at night with my favorite libation and watching the skies. You would be surprised at what is flying around up there at night while you're inside. I spend the first 30-45 minutes of pool time doing exercises that are much easier on the arthritis than a bunch of ground pounding. It's the perfect place to go after sweating in the South Mississippi sun.
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Nice shooting platform, double points for letting the wife think it was for her.
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She has hinted that we may need to put a gate up too. She's not been happy with the muddy paw prints on her new deck.


What! Ban that sweet angel Daisy from the porch?

And on another note, it’s threads like this that make me SO happy my wife doesn’t read this forum.
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Very nice, and in your defense concerning the lead time.... if the Mrs wanted it 4 years ago she probably should have mentioned it 8 years ago. Oh well, now she knows.
Kind of the inverse of this....


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We have thoroughly enjoyed the new deck through the summer thus far. We spend most of our late afternoon's sitting out on the deck and letting the hummingbirds entertain us.

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I had to do a double take on the picture in post #14.

Looked almost identical to the view from my grandparents home in Connecticut when I was a kid. The tractor just added to my confusion, since I learned to drive their tractor at age 8.
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^^^^ She expects the finer things in life. ^^^^

Absolutely true: Just because I know how to do it, doesn't mean I want to do it !

It worked for 12 years at our house. Then my friend called. She did get her grand new bathroom. After demo I went to Montana to shoot prairie dogs. I missed 10 days of construction agony, but got 5 days of "Demo Delight".
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I'm gonna suggest that you put a salt lick down by the tree/fence line and then set up a little bench rest and see what happens.
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That is impressive!
Just saw this thread and all I can say is wow, beautiful deck and property. 😎👍👍
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I'm gonna suggest that you put a salt lick down by the tree/fence line and then set up a little bench rest and see what happens.
Like minds think alike . . . I have a PVC feeder hanging from a hickory tree at the fence line behind the house. From the deck it's about 120 yards straight shot. There's a strand broken on the fence by the feeder that I've not repaired in a couple of years that the deer duck under and walk right up to the feeder. I've never shot one from the old deck, but I have taken a couple near the fence line standing in the doorway of my shop.


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That, Mr. Faulkner, is what I call a sho'-nuff deck. Apparently, some a y'all really like a fancy deck. Some awesome designs and features in this thread. I am SO glad my wife doesn't read this board! If I ever had to build a deck like some in this thread I'd wait a dang site longer that 4 years to do it.
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Like minds think alike . . . I have a PVC feeder hanging from a hickory tree at the fence line behind the house. From the deck it's about 120 yards straight shot. There's a strand broken on the fence by the feeder that I've not repaired in a couple of years that the deer duck under and walk right up to the feeder. I've never shot one from the old deck, but I have taken a couple near the fence line standing in the doorway of my shop.


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Shot a nice Buck in Mississippi years back from my buddy's car port across the picknick table with a cup of coffee nearby while sitting in my drawers. Adterwards, took the front end loadeer and crossed the field to pick it up. That was the same weekend that my buddy ran over that turkey on the logging road and jumped out and shot it with his Hi Power. That bird made a nice mount
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You always have the coolest threads.

That deck is awesome.
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Great thread and great job on the deck. I had the same project (pool removal/new deck) about 7 years ago. Took the Amish 2 weeks! I watched them from the kitchen while they worked away in their bare feet smoking home rolled and joking with each other in a language I didn't understand. I went with Azek instead of Trex, same basic idea. No pergola though.

Tell me about the lights on/under/around the railing caps, solar?

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Tell me about the lights on/under/around the railing caps, solar?
They are 4-in x 4-in Black Solar LED Deck Post Caps that just set on top of the 4x4 posts and screw into place. I believe we bought these at Lowe's.

I've been impressed in that they come on at dusk and stay on all night long and shut off at dawn.

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