Deck building 101

My dad came this weekend to build a deck for our pool. He designed the (initial) deck by photos and drawings provided by me. Since this original plan, we doubled the size, added some safety gates, moved the stairs, added an extra set of stairs and removed a platform to the trampoline.

The initial forecast was thunderstorms and lightening - but the weather ended up to be weird, but perfect. The sun would be shining then it would be a few drops (at times heavy) of rain then the sun would shine. Just enough to cool us down from working!

Below are the photos of the progress between June 20-21.

Getting the deck posts in place and level

Attaching the beams.

"Dad, look up"


How many men does it take to put screws in?
One to watch, and one to work!!!(didn't get any photos of the joists - this happened during one of my extra trips to Kent)
Then comes the the decking - and lots of it!

And more decking - this was Jacques and my project while Dad did the stairs

As complete as the deck got with Dad here - which is farther than anyone of us thought we'd get. (We realized we didn't have any screws to attaching the railing - this is Sunday's project for Jacques and me)

The colour is washed out because I had the wrong setting on my camera - didn't think to change the settings after a L-O-N-G hard day of work!!

So that's, THAT! The final deck is 8' X 32' and we're calling it our "Peer to the water" or "the runway"!!!

We're thrilled that we were fortunate enough to have Dad come from PEI to help us!

THANK YOU so much DAD for your help!