May 2008 - Deck Project


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Newly installed deck railing


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Railing joint


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Engineer Pete


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Frame for stair landing


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Leveling the stair landing frame


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Grouch


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Cutting a stair stringer


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Placing angle irons to support
bucket of concrete which supports post


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Angles precisely set in blobs of concrete


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Landing frame, angles in background


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Concrete pad for stair landing


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Wrestling the concrete bucket in place


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Aligning the bucket


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Deck post in place


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Stair landing


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Making minor adjustment to first stringer


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First stringer in place


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Marking the second stringer


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Second stringer in place


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What to do next?


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Building out the upper landing


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Installing the first stair tread


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Right on


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Working on the steps


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Placing a step


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Pouring concrete pad
for center support


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Leveling the pad


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Placing the last step


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Placing the last step


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Screwing in the last step


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Happy to be almost finished
with the stairway


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Railing in progress


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Rosie the Planer catching
a board coming out of the planer


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Attaching a railing post


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Martha applying Cetol to railing boards


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The (almost) finished deck


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The (almost) finished deck


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Stairway finished except for
bricks on the landing


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The lower rail will be removed,
planed and reinstalled


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The deck looks good and feels solid