Deckathon 2007 in full swing!
I recall someone saying, "Decking is forever". I can appreciate that statement now. The days blur together and the decking continues plodding along its way.
My friend, Jason ("The Hammer"), came up to help out for the weekend. We started at the second set of temporary posts on Saturday morning (Quinn and I had set them up on Thursday night in preparation). Once we finished fiddling around with trimming boards and getting them all secured around the posts, we were able to really start.
We decked right up to the next set of temporary posts before we had to stop for the night, thanks to Jason continuing on decking by himself while Wendy and I cleaned up. Jay was pretty well worn out, which was an interesting development, as Wendy and I were tired, but not too wiped. This must mean that we have increased our stamina in the time we have been working on the house. We got Jay some dinner, a shower and a bed to fall on at Grandma Lana's and went home ourselves.
On Sunday we met Jason and went back to work. We were glad to hear that he didn't feel as sore as he thought he might and in celebration, we put him right back on decking duty. We fiddled with the next set of spacer posts until afternoon, at which point Jay needed to get going home. Wendy and I continued on until mid-afternoon, when the entire deck was in full sun. At that point, we took a ride over to the state park to swim for an hour or so until the shade was back on the deck. We finished up for the day a little earlier than we expected, but it took us longer to get everything covered, since we had taken the covering tarps off of everything to air out and we had about 28 feet of deck to cover. Hopefully we will get up there to finish the deck during the week and be able to start building the loft bents next weekend.
My friend, Jason ("The Hammer"), came up to help out for the weekend. We started at the second set of temporary posts on Saturday morning (Quinn and I had set them up on Thursday night in preparation). Once we finished fiddling around with trimming boards and getting them all secured around the posts, we were able to really start.
We decked right up to the next set of temporary posts before we had to stop for the night, thanks to Jason continuing on decking by himself while Wendy and I cleaned up. Jay was pretty well worn out, which was an interesting development, as Wendy and I were tired, but not too wiped. This must mean that we have increased our stamina in the time we have been working on the house. We got Jay some dinner, a shower and a bed to fall on at Grandma Lana's and went home ourselves.
On Sunday we met Jason and went back to work. We were glad to hear that he didn't feel as sore as he thought he might and in celebration, we put him right back on decking duty. We fiddled with the next set of spacer posts until afternoon, at which point Jay needed to get going home. Wendy and I continued on until mid-afternoon, when the entire deck was in full sun. At that point, we took a ride over to the state park to swim for an hour or so until the shade was back on the deck. We finished up for the day a little earlier than we expected, but it took us longer to get everything covered, since we had taken the covering tarps off of everything to air out and we had about 28 feet of deck to cover. Hopefully we will get up there to finish the deck during the week and be able to start building the loft bents next weekend.
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