Finally after about a year of agonizing over it I have started my deck. It will be 28' 6" wide and 16' deep. I am using 2" X 6" pressure treated lumber for the framing and Trex for the deck and railing. I ordered the Trex on Saturday (should be here in about a week).
Building a New Deck
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This is the area at the rear of the home where the deck will go. Actually it's a picture of my BX and you can kinda see where the deck will go. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif No fair making fun of my multi colored home either. I've got about 6 projects going on at once - new siding and windows are one of them.
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It's starting to take shape now. I was able to pour all but 3 of the footings. I wanted to rim the deck up just to make sure that all of my measurements were correct before I poured any concrete. The boards over the footings are for protection from my always curious dogs.
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Last summer, my son and I built a 16x20 ft deck using Trex. It was great to work with. I still have some trim board to put up, but will need to take the trailer back to the lumberyard to pick up 3 more sticks of trex.
We wanted benches on one side and a nice rail on the other side. Since trex has little strength, I fabbed some bench brackets and rail brackets out of 2x3 angle iron and placed 3/16 x 4 flat iron under the trex for the rails and benches. After welding all the iron up, took it in to be powdercoated.
Pics aren't that good, but you get the idea. We love the deck!
ron
We wanted benches on one side and a nice rail on the other side. Since trex has little strength, I fabbed some bench brackets and rail brackets out of 2x3 angle iron and placed 3/16 x 4 flat iron under the trex for the rails and benches. After welding all the iron up, took it in to be powdercoated.
Pics aren't that good, but you get the idea. We love the deck!
ron
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obrien,
Your view of the mountains from the 'soon to be' deck is simply spectacular! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Where can I get one of those post hole diggers that dig the square holes??
Don
Your view of the mountains from the 'soon to be' deck is simply spectacular! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Where can I get one of those post hole diggers that dig the square holes??
Don
CTyler
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I will be building a aprox 14 x 60 deck and will use Trex or some other composite. What is Trex like to cut? I don't want to kill my nice blades.
CTyler
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I know what you mean. We didn't built the deck last summer cause we could not come up with a plan. We have a solid idea and layout now but its not engineered yet.