Your granddaughter is precious. Happy one year pool birthday too!
Thank you! And it has been up a year what? Tomorrow I think! Hard to believe it's been a year!
So here are some pics for all interested, especially Mac! I forgot to do it this morning because I had my bed in mind over the pool but I got up around 2 to sweep and brush it and get it ready for the nasty weather tomorrow and this week coming up. So here we go...
A pic from the road above...
A side view...
The back view of the deck. Now, I ran out of boards but I'm nailing 2x6's up along the back 3 high to keep the dirt from coming onto the deck because it's under ground. I'll be stapling weed barrier to the back and back filling with gravel from along side the garage because I have enough of it! I'm going to move the gravel myself with a wheel barrel. Jimmy is already yelling at me that I can't but I am and I don't want to hear anything else about it. So sick of shelling money out on excavators and bobcats! Oh and check that post out on the far right! I looked at it after it dried and asked Jim, How on EARTH did that slide past my eyes and make it into the hole?!!! It is beyond me but they are all getting cut off so it doesn't matter. The deck boards on the deck will be going up to give the front a finished look and I'm running a 2x10 to cap it off and mounting the post for the lattice on top of the 2x10.
This is where the steps will be. I need another stringer. I'll be butting the boards up against the pool. IF this deck is not complete this fall and there are no steps on it, I'll be making hubby mad and adding onto the deck next year with a step down platform that goes out to the edge of the garage. He doesn't know it yet but I love deck space so I'm in no hurry to get the steps on.
Now, I'm not a pro by any means but I think I did a pretty good job on it with Jimmy's help. I wish he would have did the 345 rule but he felt I didn't know what I was talking about and totally blew me off and the deck is NOT square which totally got me seeing red. Then he says, your boards are running sideways and I was like REALLY?! I know they are, I'll fix it at the end! He wanted me to start cutting and laying them different and I fired him!
You can see in this pic how I had to rip the boards to get it to even out. I'm sure some people like my brother would ride me about it but I had to fix it and this is how I did it.
Hope you guys enjoy the pics. There will be more to come as we get more money. I need a couple more 2x6's and a couple 2x10's before I can move on. So, I'm taking a break and enjoying my granddaughter this weekend.