Dan, do you own a belt sander so when all done you can do a bit of
rounding of corners and edges ?Lee
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:51:28PM
-0400,
Dan Rossi wrote:
> Nearly three years after beginning the deck, I am still working on it. It
> turned out to be a beautiful weekend, so I uncovered the lumber, and
> dragged the miter saw and stand up out of the basement. I didn't do to
> much, but got the upper landing decked over. It's slow going because of
> the notching around posts. A couple of screw-ups, but not too bad. I
> made a beautiful perfect notch in one board, and when I laid it down,
> realized that I made the notch about 1.5 inches too close to the end of
> the board, so had to redo it.
>
> I let most of the boards run wild over the ends of the joists and then
> trimmed everything flush to the rim joists. With mounting all the decking
> from below, it is a lot of overhead work. Luckily, I have a small, light,
> but surprisingly powerful driver.
>
> I still need to deck the lower landing, then do the railings for the
> landings and the stairs. Should be done by the end of the month. yeah,
> right.
>
> --
> Blue skies.
> Dan Rossi
> Carnegie Mellon University.
> E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu
> Tel: (412) 268-9081
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