Faulkner
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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.
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.
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.
Continued . . . .
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.
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.
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.
Continued . . . .
