Deck Rebuild

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.