Dan and all, we used standard decking boards whatever that is and we used 1/ qurter in ch carriage bolts as spacers 13 years ago and knock on wood after a couple of stan and paint jobs the deck is still in perfect shape . it does need to be jacked up ever couple of years because of shifting clay but we do that with a jack and use pation blocks. the ooriginal bases were dug 3 foot into the ground as suggested into card board tubes. . Now on the flip side two years later we built a smaller deck everything is the same except these 4 by 4's we cemented into the ground and that deck has not moved at all. Lee
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 10:01:30PM -0400, Dan Rossi wrote: > When I built my deck, I used pressure treated deck boards. They were > quite wet when I purchased them. I clamped the hell out of them when I > attached them to the joists, to get them as tight together as possible. I > now have gaps as much as a quarter inch along most of the planks. If > using pressure treated lumber that isn't kiln dried, I would not leave any > gaps when laying down the boards. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 -- Ernest asks Frank how long he has been working for the company. "Ever since they threatened to fire me."
