Decks of the year - Floating Foundation Decks

Summer 2002

Day 20 (Aug. 9th):
Short day, after all it was Friday.

Finished the main deck's surface and two sections of perimeter deck hand rail. Took some measurements for the stairs and platform that will run along the house side of the main deck. Also did a bit of thinking about the hand rail for the main deck.

Now that's a decent sized dance floor!

In the upper right area of this shot is one of the two sections of perimeter deck hand rail that we did today.

The stairs will run along the left edge of the deck as seen here. Looks like it will be 7 steps (12-1/2" tread with 5-1/2" risers) up to an area about 4 feet by 6 feet then a right turn on to the main deck.

The perimeter deck needs one more post and hand rail section as seen just on the left in this shot.

This main deck is not attached to the perimeter deck at any point. The main deck's surface boards are about a half inch below the frame board of the perimeter deck.

I'm interested to see how much movement we get by this time next year.

We all agree, this project has turned out with a great looking deck!

		Next trip will be to install the last section of hand rail on the perimeter deck and get the steps and platform installed. All that will remain after that will be the main deck's handrail.

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