The New Mini Deck for the Shed

We accumulated quite a bit of left-over lumber from our deck-building project – even over and above what we’d given away already. I had a plan. I’d always hated stepping onto the dirt in front of our shed in the back 40, so I convinced JT to build a mini deck so that the dirt [...]

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Build Day 7 – The Finale

As an add-on to last night’s post: On the front lawn I put out all the decent sized lumber pieces left over from our project (minimum size 3′ maximum size 5′) hoping that someone with a smaller project would pick them up. Well, during cocktails, a guy pulled up in his sedan and did just [...]

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Build Day 6 – The Home StretchMo

Today is Canada Day, therefore everthing is closed (thank goodness we stocked up from The Depot, the LCBO and Metro!).  We got off to a great start and skirted the back of the deck. By 12:30ish we had the arbour up and capped. Lunch was a tasty wrap and a tower of tomatoes and buffalo [...]

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Build Day 5 – Will it ever stop?

The morning started out to be quite sunny. But clouds did manage to float in and we had a few minor showers, which didn’t stop us from working.
We got most of the uprights put up, ready for the lattice and we got the bottom box made for the steps from the sliding doors off the [...]

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Build Day 4 – Rain, rain go away…

Paul and T are on vacation and they are in Hawaii. What the heck was I thinking that on MY vacation I would build a deck? There is not one muscle in my whole entire being that is not screeming and writhing with pain. Hawaii? Pain? Hawaii? Pain? Oh ma goh!
Today we got off to [...]

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Build Day 3 – Mother Nature Hates Us

We started off OK at 9ish, but very overcast. We made a rookie error which cost about an hour and $20 but really 5.5 hours because it started teaming rain! And, of course, Trip #3 to Home Depot.
Rain, rain and more rain. At around 2:30 the rain stopped and we immediately got back into it.
We [...]

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Build Day 2 – The House Fights Back

I am just getting too old for this type of sillyness! OHHHH my aching back.
To say Build Day 2 got off to a slow start is an understatement. Not for a lack to trying. One challenge after another. I won’t bore you with them, but suffice to say that we made our 2nd run to [...]

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The New Cocktail Deck June 2009

When we decided to add onto our kitchen, we knew we had to give up our lovely cocktail deck JT and I built about a year or two after we moved into our home. But we had bigger plans! A new, bigger, better cocktail lounge to replace a semi useless, puney little deck off the [...]

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