Tools and Materials for Decks
Key Takeaways Choosing the right decking material, whether wood, composite, or plastic, directly impacts durability, maintenance, and aesthetics. Popular wood options like cedar, redwood, and tropical hardwoods provide natural beauty but require regular upkeep. Composite and plastic decking materials, such as Trex and PVC, offer low-maintenance and eco-friendly alternatives. Essential deck-building tools include layout, excavation, [...]
Analyzing a Base Map
Key Takeaways Site Analysis is Essential: Conduct a thorough evaluation of your property to assess assets, liabilities, drainage, and privacy considerations. This ensures your deck design complements the existing landscape. Custom Design for Lifestyle Needs: Tailor your deck’s design to suit your lifestyle, whether it's for hosting parties, relaxing in solitude, or creating a safe [...]
Various Plants on a Deck
Key Takeaways Plants Enhance Deck Appeal: Integrating plants into your deck design creates a vibrant, welcoming outdoor space while adding privacy and cooling shade. Planter Versatility: Decks can benefit from planter boxes, railing planters, and container gardens, which allow flexible arrangements and adaptability to various designs. Practical Benefits: Beyond aesthetics, plants on decks improve air [...]
Size and Shape Of Your Future Deck
Key Takeaways Tailored to Needs: The ideal deck size and shape should align with its intended functions—dining, entertaining, or relaxing—while balancing practicality and aesthetics. Variety of Designs: From ground-level to multi-level and wraparound decks, each type serves specific property layouts and homeowner preferences. Compliance Matters: Adhering to local building codes and regulations ensures the deck [...]
Putting Deck Plans on Paper
You’ve pondered your deck’s function and style, and you’ve chosen the materials you’ll use to build it. Before you bring out the shovels and levels, however, it’s important to refine your plan, to clarify and map out precisely where all the final elements will go. Key Takeaways Detailed Planning is Essential: Before beginning your deck [...]
Deck Access
No matter how complete you make your landscape design, you won’t use even the most luxurious deck if you can’t see it from the inside, if you don’t provide an easy way to get to it, and if its uses conflict with the uses of the adjacent interior room. These factors—visual access, actual access, and [...]
Lumber for Decks
Pound for pound, wood is almost as strong as steel. Its warm, natural beauty and remarkable workability make it ideal for decks and other outdoor structures. The uses of lumber are endless. It can be used to add privacy screens and planters, create ornate railings, build ornamental trellises for climbing plants, or ease the transition between one [...]
Laying Out Deck Site
Whether you start the layout of your deck with a ledger or are expanding an old deck from an existing framing member, the next step is laying out the site for footings and post locations. Here’s how to get things right. ”We are extremely pleased with the railings you installed. The design goes perfectly with the style [...]
Installing The Ballusters
Purchase ready-cut balusters or make your own from 2x2s. You may want to angle-cut one or both ends on the outside faces. Determine where you will drive the fasteners. Set a group of balusters side by side. Use a framing square to mark fastener positions, and drill pilot holes. ”From the very first telephone conversation with Yevgeniy, [...]
Installing surface mounted infill
Of all the aspects of fence construction, installing the infill is probably the most enjoyable because you can begin to see the results of your planning and layout. It’s at this step that the structure you’ve been toiling over begins to look like a fence. The tasks associated with hanging the infill are repetitive—you’ll fall [...]
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