I was looking at the weather forecast, and it seems I am just in time. the hot weather is arriving this weekend, (80F) Must be those Palm Springs folks that are arriving in the neighborhood this weekend. ;)
Our old deck was riddled with rotten wood, sooo... we are replacing it. I wanted to document how the deck is built, just in case there is ever any question as to how did we do that??? This will be a slow process, the goal is to get it done this decade...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The lower deck is done, got the 3rd section poured this past Monday. Gator likes to sit on it an stare at her yard.
I was looking at the weather forecast, and it seems I am just in time. the hot weather is arriving this weekend, (80F) Must be those Palm Springs folks that are arriving in the neighborhood this weekend. ;)
I was looking at the weather forecast, and it seems I am just in time. the hot weather is arriving this weekend, (80F) Must be those Palm Springs folks that are arriving in the neighborhood this weekend. ;)
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
We were thinking about putting in some stairs, and remembered we were planning on a lower deck to land on. Originally we were thinking a wood deck, but got to thinking for the price it would rot out fast around here especially so low to the ground, so we decided to make it concrete, it will be here till the end of time.
We needed to level it out, we got some fill dirt from the local supply for $5 per yard.
We decided to keep the dirt retained we would put in a wall. We decided on a dry fit cinderblock (no mortar joints)
Then put concrete and ½ in rebar in the holes. We tied the rebar to our pad with some rebar all around the edges, with remesh in the center.
To make it a more manageable project we are pouring the pad in 3 5x5ish sections
I got some sawhorses that are rated at 1,000lbs each and staged the concrete bags near the mixer to make the pour more manageable.
We poured the first pad where Samantha is standing.
1down 2 to go
2nd pad is staged and ready to be poured.
2 down 1 to go.
We are eventually going to pour a sidewalk over to the carport, but that is a project for another time. I have a feeling the landing is going to be too short at the bottom of the ramp, but we are going to wait to extend it so we can see how big we really need to make it.
We needed to level it out, we got some fill dirt from the local supply for $5 per yard.
We decided to keep the dirt retained we would put in a wall. We decided on a dry fit cinderblock (no mortar joints)
Then put concrete and ½ in rebar in the holes. We tied the rebar to our pad with some rebar all around the edges, with remesh in the center.
To make it a more manageable project we are pouring the pad in 3 5x5ish sections
I got some sawhorses that are rated at 1,000lbs each and staged the concrete bags near the mixer to make the pour more manageable.
We poured the first pad where Samantha is standing.
1down 2 to go
2nd pad is staged and ready to be poured.
2 down 1 to go.
We are eventually going to pour a sidewalk over to the carport, but that is a project for another time. I have a feeling the landing is going to be too short at the bottom of the ramp, but we are going to wait to extend it so we can see how big we really need to make it.
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