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We cheated because we only replaced the walking surface, but it looks so much better. Some areas might've fallen through when walking if we were a subject of FPH. I found a lot of 2x6x8-14 for about $.20/linear foot. Had to pick through a lot of knotted, broken, or termite ridden boards to get what we used, and had to piece out a few runs, but it saved a couple thousand dollars. Right now the 2x6x12's are going for $20 each, plus tax. It's kinda crazy how expensive it is to pay someone to do something like this and it's so easy. This has been my sentiment about everything, though. Why pay when you can do it? If you have to slave away for the jew(to get money to pay for services) or yourself, you should always do it for yourself.

We cheated because we only replaced the walking surface, but it looks so much better. Some areas might've fallen through when walking if we were a subject of FPH. I found a lot of 2x6x8-14 for about $.20/linear foot. Had to pick through a lot of knotted, broken, or termite ridden boards to get what we used, and had to piece out a few runs, but it saved a couple thousand dollars. Right now the 2x6x12's are going for $20 each, plus tax. It's kinda crazy how expensive it is to pay someone to do something like this and it's so easy. This has been my sentiment about everything, though. Why pay when you can do it? If you have to slave away for the jew(to get money to pay for services) or yourself, you should always do it for yourself.

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Oh dude. I am not shitting on you for fun but from painful painful painful first-hand experience.

That looks great and feels so satisfying, right??

It looks like you just did what we did a few years ago on our first diy deck: The boards are spaced too close together. Water is going to pool when it rains within just 6 months and sweeping won't help because the dust and grime of the previous months will have effectively "sealed" all the joints like wood putty...

It looks great though!!

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It looks like he literally butted them up against each other. Those boards will soak up water and expand, pushing some of them up. I don't understand why you wouldn't even watch a youtube video about deck building before building a deck?!

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Al always had the opposite issue, they shrunk, leaving a gap where I wanted none I don't like where there is snow though, so that would be a difference.

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That wood that shrank wasn't dry. You cut it down nailed it in place and then it dried out and it shrank.

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Not if he A) slope the deck correctly and B) coats in that Thompson's Water Seal stuff. He said he just replace the walking surface, which have done little to the slope.

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Butting the deck boards up against each other as tight as possible is the correct method. (acmetools.com) The joint between the boards is not watertight. When the deck boards shrink, the gap remains small. The only thing that affects water sitting on a deck is the crown of the board. (renovation-headquarters.com)

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Oh that sucks. Hopefully they will shrink with the curing, though? We are listing the house for sale in two weeks, and due to being near a base it will go to a military person most likely. That's why we replaced the deck; no way would a VA loan inspector approve the deck with the boards the way they were.

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Ours didn't :( (cure I mean, the appraisal went through when we sold)

But the good news is, it'll be the new owner's problem to deal with! It really does look good, I just wanted you to be prepared for what happened to us.

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Seriously thank you for telling me. I'm probably looking at doing this on the new house, and I wouldn't have known. Usually I'll read everything I can find before tackling a project but all of this has been so sudden. We had an agent call and beg us to list, and the same night as his call we found this deal on the wood. The very next morning we're banging out the boards.

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I spaced the boards on my deck and they were made a little too big after the boards shrank. I wished I had installed with the boards touching.

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Very nice, but previous poster is correct, needs a bit of space between each board. "Experts" will tell you how much space, but sometimes even that doesn't work. I have a deck (built by previous owners) that has a good spacing. However, there are tiny hard balls that drop off the basswood tree that get caught in the cracks until they are filled up, then dirt catches on top. It still catches water. I go through every year or two with my jigsaw carefully knocking out the balls and dirt that gets caught in the cracks.

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Jig saw is so handy.

I'm actually thinking the spacing is why our deck did so poorly before we bought the place.

That and they laid the boards the wrong way so they cupped up instead of down. Gotta lay the bark side down.

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No, no - bark side goes up! Look at the ends of the boards, you want the curve as an upward arch on every piece. That upward arch "points" to the bark of the tree. If you do them bark side down, they cup up and hold water.

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Did you make sure to bury the corpses underneath the deck first?

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Damnit.

I knew I forgot something.

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Again man? You're going to need to buy another freezer and it's getting suspicious with how many freezers you buy.

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Nice job! Feels nice to be White.

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You should've spent the extra $ for synthetic decking. I know, it looks so nice right now, but you're going to get really tired of re-oiling or finishing it every year. (And if you don't do that it'll be trashed in 3 years.)

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We're selling the house, so won't be keeping it.

We had trex decking at another house. I hated it because of how hot it stayed.

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Now seal it before the elements nigger it up.

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I see you used the very fine quality heat treated 225C (probably under steam,) Georgia southern yellow pine?

Some say it is among the strongest woods in the world, pound for pound.

Damned lucky to get that lumber at all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFSVtouV9d8

A near thing. Possibly arson related to a local land foreclosure dispute - fucking bankers.

High drama in deck construction:)

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Wow. We used to live right down the road from that in Grovetown. Columbia county was so crooked.

Didn't know about the quality of the wood. Makes me feel better about it, hopefully it will stand up for the next owner in spite of my noob mistakes.

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Yeah, it seems to be the good stuff.

Should hold up well.

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Good lord have you not heard of YouTube?dont like YouTube ?, well there’s a library where you can take out a book specifically about building decks. Really tho as a contractor we have a saying and it goes for tools as well as projects “you get what you pay for”.

So would you do your own dentistry? I mean it’s just drilling teeth right how hard could that be?and think of the money you’d save!

I’m kinda shitting on you but only because you stated the “you could pay someone to do this but it’s so easy!” For starters yes banging boards on existing joists is easy.but that isn’t the correct way of doing things and a carpenter would space his deck boards yet still keep everything straight. However you nailed it and not only nailed it but left a happy face on every nail (the round indent of your hammer face).

Decks need to be screwed ,why? Cuz nails won’t hold and to avoid happy faces. Also how much rotten joists got buried? And how many more will rot since the deck can’t breathe?(all of them) No worries it’s all the next guys problem right? Well you get what you give.

Here’s what you do.pull it all up flip boards to hide happy faces space boards 3/16’” and screw down roughly 1.25” from the edge of the board. Not so easy after all eh :). Then you can be “proud” of your work and leave a nice deck for the new guy.