Not playing with a full deck

True to form, my prediction on finishing the deck for the loft was short. The beginning of the day was spent fiddling with measuring and cutting the boards to go between the temporary posts and after nailing them down, measuring and notching the next piece of flooring. This fiddley part takes lots of time to figure out, and once you know what you are doing it can be time consumimg. I used a folding ruler to transfer the dimensions of the temporary posts and a hand saw and chisel to cut them.

When we were decking in earnest things moved slowly, but by the end of the day we had about half the deck done. Wendy thinks its because we didn't have a third person (ala Jay) dedicated to laying decking while I fiddled and Wendy selected and put up boards. Indeed, it seemed to go faster that weekend on the first floor deck.


We'll have to finish up during the week since my parents, sister and brother-in-law are coming next weekend to help out and I would like to have them help raise the next level of bents.