My Manly Man and His Deck

So we decided to tackle the back deck this year. It was essentially a big splinter trap and ugly to boot. We planned to just sand and refinish it, but then we had some fun and cut it down by about half so that we could have more yard to play in too (that is our next big project).

Here is phase 1 - demolition

Phase 2 - Dig out the posts

Phase 3 - pull out all "popped" nails, and screw down all the boards. (the deck had minimal screws to begin with...it wasn't well built initially)

Phase 4 - Sand, sand, sand
Phase 5 - do the final cut across the end and add finishing boards

Phase 6 - Stain it. Sorry we don't have a full shot, our camera died. And check out Carson's awesome jump shot!

Thank you, Dave for all of your hard work. You did a wonderful job!