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
I put it off for four years: project now complete
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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...)
(BTW, you've got some weenie in your parking area to the side of the house. Looks like he's flying a drone...)
RTILSON
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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!
mmb617
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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.
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.
beaverislander
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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.
GB
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You get a star in your workbook! Happy wife = happy life.
Very nice work! I wish I had the talent to do that myself.
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Faulkner
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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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Faulkner
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Each posts rests on a concrete base.
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 [emoji1303]
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charlie sherrill
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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.
charlie sherrill
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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.
HOUSTON RICK
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Nice shooting platform, double points for letting the wife think it was for her.
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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Sistema1927
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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.
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.
Puller
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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.
Looks like Mrs. Faulkner has "decked" it out quite nicely.
