Decisions decisions

Piston · Aug 10, 2016

teejk said:
How can one spend $6-7k on a deck extension? You planning to hold dances or land aircraft? One thing I have learned about decks...no bigger than what you use. Your initial construction cost is merely the down payment on what will continue to eat money down the road.

You can easily spend 6-7 grand on a deck. My parents were looking into replacing they're deck with all new trex decking (or whatever that stuff is called) as their pressure treated boards are all weathered and splintered. It was going to be around $15k just for the materials.

Piston · Aug 10, 2016

teejk said:
How can one spend $6-7k on a deck extension? You planning to hold dances or land aircraft? One thing I have learned about decks...no bigger than what you use. Your initial construction cost is merely the down payment on what will continue to eat money down the road.

You can easily spend 6-7 grand on a deck. My parents were looking into replacing they're deck with all new trex decking (or whatever that stuff is called) as their pressure treated boards are all weathered and splintered. It was going to be around $15k just for the materials.

oosik · Aug 10, 2016

Tom,
i see the framing in post #8. Did you have to have those heavy timbers specially cut for you or are they generally available at a local lumber yard.
Around here, I would have to go to a custom cutter - if one is even available - and have those timbers specially cut.
More than likely, it would be cheaper for me to use small glue-lam beams that attempting to find solid timbers.
I DO like the look of that building.

Tomtint · Aug 11, 2016

oosik said:
Tom,
i see the framing in post #8. Did you have to have those heavy timbers specially cut for you or are they generally available at a local lumber yard.
Around here, I would have to go to a custom cutter - if one is even available - and have those timbers specially cut.
More than likely, it would be cheaper for me to use small glue-lam beams that attempting to find solid timbers.
I DO like the look of that building.

Fortunately I have a saw mill about 10 miles away from me. The top beams are 21' long and are $60.00 ea. If I had to do them in lam beams it would have been much more. The length is odd but I only had to wait a few days for them to cut them for me.

Tomtint · Sep 6, 2016

Have not really had much extra time to finish this off. It's about ready for roof and siding, and the carport section. The main section is a 12 pitch, I'm thinking the carport roof will be a 6 pitch. Hopefully I can wrap it up in another 2-3 weekends.