A year an a half ago I made the terrible mistake of trying a new deck stain on the deck in front of our shed. The stuff was awful and made a mess out of the deck. It was going to have to be fixed. I prolonged the agony and didn’t do anything about it last summer, but this summer it was going to have to be corrected.
Three choices existed.
1.) I could buy new decking, an expensive option, because the old deck boards are still quite serviceable, just stained an ugly color.
2.) I could sand the surface of the deck down to good wood. Having done this once before its not pretty and I prefer not to do it again.
3.) If lucky I can unscrew the deck boards and flip them over because the bottom isn’t stained. ( We will try this option first)
Success with screw gun. The boards all came off relatively undamaged, and in good shape.
Notice the nice hole under the corner of the shed that Margaret’s pet Wood Chuck dug. That will have to filled and fixed so he can’t get back under there.
Now while I’m at it we are going to modify the original deck just a little bit! The ramp on the end has to go and the deck needs to run one level all along the front of the shed.
A quick trip to town for a few additional boards to complete the structure.
Things are shaping up!
Almost complete
We just need to put a skirt around the deck so the hairy critter that’s digging under our shed can’t get in there anymore .
No construction project is ever complete around here without a special rock for Margaret having to be moved 3 times.
The base of the completed deck with varmint control skirt in place!
Take your victories no matter how small!
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