Great video. Our deck was built before we bought house. It was slippery when wet, but pressure wash each year and No Nails deck oil applied and it’s non slippery and lasting - we have now been here 8 years. Annual maintenance is I believe the key. Especially with such a fab build ……
I respect the dedication of your two resident inspectors, Orange Marmalade One and Orange Marmalade Two. They have grown much since the remodel and extension build. Just doing a bit of binge watching on Sunday afternoon here in Indiana U.S.A. I appreciate your attention to detail. New subscriber to both your channel. ❤ God bless
I admire the attention to detail you put into this Decking is not something i personally like, but i admire how you did it, and the attention to detail you put into it Each to there own, and the end result was excellent.
Hi Andy excellent video, I've just ripped up my old decking to enlarge it. The original installation was similar to yours being slightly elevated, we also had pots etc all around the edge. The deck was slightly elevated like yours. When I ripped up the old deck the only rotted areas were on the joists below where the plant pots had been. I didn't use deck tape, but the rot wasn't there it was on the sides.where there wasn't any plant pots the joists were fine. The decking had been down about 24 years. In rebuilding my new deck I've allowed for a solid concrete base for a large planter in the middle of the deck. Just might need thinking about.
I’d have set the step boards at 90° to the main deck. Helps with the visual perception of a step too, especially for the elderly. Just a personal thing. Great video as usual.
That is so nice. Looks close to perfection to me. We lived in a house where we could open the door and walk straight onto the deck. We loved it. You will love yours as well, for many years.
Been a while since I watched one of your videos - I don't get much time to watch these days due to my 1 year old running around terrorising me all the time 😂 Must say I really enjoyed this video. Your attention to detail is superb. Love to see people taking pride in their work. My OCD approves of your OCD!!
Hi Andy, albeit from Birmingham, I live in Sweden and decking is unbelievably popular and very common over here. Much more than say brick patios. I don’t know anyone who uses this tape you have used on the joints and we have long winters with huge amounts of snow during this period, not to mention loads of rain as well. Almost as bad as Blighty 😂. As long as the wood is fully treated (impregnated) from factory and reasonably maintained over the years, it will not rot and last for many, many years. Sorry Andy but based on years of experience and much harsher weather, you have in all honesty spent £60 odd quid on something you didn’t really need. Albeit done a nice job. 👍👍 By the way Thompson weather seal does a great job of protecting the decking boards and stopping any algae and moss forming. 👍. Also no two boards are identical, so trying to get every board to line us to the mm is definitely a bad case of OCD mate. 😂🤯
I wouldn’t bank on that Andy. To be honest getting good wood here and especially quality sheet material is a nightmare and bloody expensive. 🤯😩. But love how you did the decking and always nice regardless to see a person take pride in their work. Definitely better than most contractors for sure. 👍👍
Well done! Such patience and attention to detail. That is easily the best in the world. Can’t see any contractor going to those lengths (pardon the pun). I did a small area a long time ago and used one of the matrix kits on top of gravel with hand rails to my credit. I found that demanding enough. It lasted 10 years so I can’t complain. If I make it to 80 I’ll watch your inspection video then 🙂.
Andy that’s a really nice decking you have installed. I was sharing the pain on getting the boards aligned - I have OCD too when it comes to this sort of stuff. But when you are working with natural materials you know it is going to move but you cannot stop obsessing.😀👍🤣
Great job Andy 👌, my deck has been down 20 years now, still good & I didn’t use any of that fancy tape, probably didn’t exist back then 😂 so yours should be ok I reckon 👍😄.
I used pvc DPC roll for the top of the joists stapled down. The deck was there for twenty odd years and the joists were still solid. If we didn't have to pull it all up because of a bamboo infestation it would still be there now. 'er indoors wanted a redesign with a couple of large raised planting boxes in oak and as I'm now over seventy we decided it was prudent to get someone in. 😁
That's really interesting to know! I've certainly seen decks with zero joist or timber treatment that have lasted 20+ years. Hope you got the bamboo sorted! 😬
I'm sure, like me, you reviewed many ways of protecting your joists. I used this tape a couple of years ago. I had to rebuild my deck around my hot tub, 😮which lasted 16 years. The joists were rotting from the top, probably from where moisture could get to. Anyway, I made the decision to use this tape. It was quick and easy to lay along the top of the joists. I also used it to seal all the end grain of my noggins, too. It was expensive, but I feel I made the right decision from the various other methods I reviewed. I used 3 rolls. I used composite boards to top my decking. I'm only a diy-er
I am so grateful for you there is a number of reasons why I watch your videos first of your content is well put together from the years I Been watching second I like you as a individual your inspirational and my dad is from your neck of the woods he was a handyman like what I am but he was more on the building side of it all I been asked to look at a deck that needs some tlc and I am glad I watched your videos on decking I have picked up some tricks and tips For any project that will come up in the future thank you so much Please do keep up the fantastic work you do
Hi Andy, good job on the decking, a shame the weather turned against you towards the end and continuous rain for days, you got the job done and it looks great. nice finish with the decking oil just looks amazing. Your tomatoes, veg and plants are looking good in the green house. Now the hard work is done, just sit back ans enjoy your fruits of your labour with a nice cold drink. As always a great video catch you soon Take care
With your attention to the details your decking looks fantastic and fits your new extension really well. Nice to see the decking boards the right way up too!😂 Thanks for the video. Cheers.
Hi Andy that’s looks absolutely beautiful , and so in keeping with the rest of the build . Your final remarks regarding the continual maintenance is so important , many people have fallen out of love with decking because it can lose its look over time. And even become a green slippery mess , but it doesn’t have to be that way . Thank again for yet another inspiring video 👍
Nice work mate. When I did mine, the boards were still green and absolutely saturated, so I decided to butt them up with no gap. I figured they can't expand anymore. Now I have a pretty big gap in summer and next to none in winter. This annoys me with timber decking. Sometimes I see people with 10+ mm gaps.
5:16 and also 15:20. When you say, that round-over the ends of the deack boards give much nicer finish, that's true But what really makes nicest finish, is actually picture frame board, that closes ends of all deckboards running perpendicularlly to them on the edge of deck. .. Just a thought..
Thanks Andy, that looks great, I appreciate your attention to detail, I'd be the same as any inconsistencies would bug me every time I looked at it ! Looking forward to the ancillary videos, perhaps you could also add one "simple wood-working projects from deck-board off-cuts" ? Somebody from the road leading to ours had a deck laid about 20 years ago and they had a great pile of off-cuts to be chucked away so your's truly asked permission then took my wheelbarrow and filled it twice, it makes me smile as the deck was ripped out and replaced about 10 years ago and I'm still using up the off-cuts today ! 😉
Stunning attention to preserving the life of this deck. Take care laying timber boards one after the other though. Most of the time the boards are swollen in the middle more than the ends so if you pull them to a 5mm spacer each time you'll start bowing every board. Its good practice to mark out every forth or fifth board to a line then infilling each section. This looks great though top job 👌
Fantastic work! One quick comment, I've watched many videos similar to this and they tend to always use wider deck tape. Also, a perimeter board tends to look better, for the cornes they meet at 45 degree angle so it's seemless. Other then that, looks great!
Hi Andy. This is a different brand name tape than what I use, but I'm pretty sure it's the same (vulcanised tape). Don't worry about that tape sticking. I would rather wish you good luck trying to ever getting that tape off again.
Thank you for the videos I'm definitely looking forward to doing my own decking you made it look so much simpler than I was expecting we had decking down when I first moved in to my house but had to rip it up as my wife and kids walked on it and went through it luckily it wasn't high hoping to have decking with a pergola but looking forward to the challenge
A fix for the lines near the step in my opinion would've been to run a board perpendicular to the deck boards, wouldve also indicated a step and help blend the transition
Hi Andy 👋🏻 trying to understand how it works when it rains. I know you'll have it sorted, but how does it work with the damp proof course when the deck butts up to the render? Is there a gap between them? Thanks 🪚👍🏻
Great decking Andy and the right way down seen too many with grooves up. Are you doing a rail at the other end or surround? Flawless Cleaning are looking for help for an elderly couple to help fix their conservatory from collapse I thought of you maybe you can lend your skills? well done on the garden as well :)
Great work Andy, as we've come to expect. Using the plain side of the boards looks so much better than those silly ribs, that then gather all of the detritus. Did you return the defective boards? They were terrible. Any thoughts about how slippery the deck may get?
I love your attention to detail. I think this is a case of an ‘amateur’ job being superior to a ‘professional’ one because you spend the extra time to be really thorough. I think the step would have been easier if you’d done it on the short side of the deck so that the boards ran longways.
Aah Andy. I was full sure you said ‘insect step’ not ‘inset step’ in the last video. I even paused the video and googled ‘insect step’ for 15 mins. I’m going building a deck so I was thinking if Andy put in an ‘insect step’ then I better too 😂😂
You've done a great job mate, looks awsome for the occasional sunny day we get in the Newcasrte area. About the step, did you use the cut ends in the same order and orientation as you cut them off? As you know, planed wood has 'nominal' dimensions and depending on the wetness of the wood, each plank will be slightly different. Great Job!!!
Thank you and spot on with your other comment! No, foolishly I mixed them up when I picked up the step boards which is one of the reasons I had to spend so long mucking about with the spacers afterwards. 😂👍
I've read conflicting opinions about whether to fit the boards with a gap or not. Some claim treated deck boards *always* shrink, others claim the gap is necessary. Hopefully you'll do an update in a year or two so we can see how it's holding up. Looks great now!
If the boards are fitted after a spell of dry, warm summer weather they probably won't shrink much further and I would fit them with very slightly less than the desired gap. However, if fitted damp, or in the winter I would fit them almost touching, as they will shrink a lot in the warmer weather.
Hi Andy. Want to do a similar set up for the deck. Did you deck over the bifold threshold/cill? I tried to see in various angles throughout the video but couldn't. Nothing on the Internet that's helping either. Looks great mate!
Oh man.. for the top surface, get a soft floor brush and a baking tray and put it on with that. Done in no time, even finish. Still looks good your way, just more brush strokes. It would still run down the edges, gives your knees a break
There's a bit of foam stuff on the bottom of the track and it's REALLY grippy (as long as the surface isn't dusty). If you're on a surface where it feels like it might move you can clamp it but it's amazing how well that foam stuff works. 👍
One of the most common mistakes that I see people building decks is spacing the deck boards. After a couple of years, there will be plenty of space opening up between those deck boards as they shrink, believe me. I built my parents deck. My father and I pried each board tight against each other so there were no gaps between the boards. Three yaers later there were huge gaps between the boards, some as much as 3/4".
My personal theory is that during the summer everyone and their granny wants to build a deck. So the decking lumber gets produced on mass with close to no regards to the quality because there just isn't enough lumber available to treat and make decking boards of. So you should probably try to build your deck early to mid spring so that there is enough quality lumber around.
Beautiful deck! What's the plan for recovering items from below the deck? Any cards can easily slip through e.g. driving license or a credit card of your guest who came over for a bbq. Cheers!
Download the plans I made for this deck and nerd out on loads of extra detail over on the Member Zone: members.gosforthhandyman.com/ 👍🌞
The lesson I learn from all of your videos is attention to detail. A beautiful job, as usual.
You should be really proud of this Andy, very few pros will ever go near that level of detail, unless you have endless money! Top job 👌
Looks stunning Andy !!!
Great video. Our deck was built before we bought house. It was slippery when wet, but pressure wash each year and No Nails deck oil applied and it’s non slippery and lasting - we have now been here 8 years. Annual maintenance is I believe the key. Especially with such a fab build ……
I respect the dedication of your two resident inspectors, Orange Marmalade One and Orange Marmalade Two. They have grown much since the remodel and extension build. Just doing a bit of binge watching on Sunday afternoon here in Indiana U.S.A. I appreciate your attention to detail. New subscriber to both your channel. ❤ God bless
I admire the attention to detail you put into this
Decking is not something i personally like, but i admire how you did it, and the attention to detail you put into it
Each to there own, and the end result was excellent.
This is as close to perfection as you can get, well done!
Was in B&Q last week and some guy asked if i wanted decking.
Luckily i got the first punch in...
😂😂
Docking?
Andy that garden looks unreal, I can’t get my head around how you’ve managed to turn it from what it was to what it is. I salute you 👍🏼
Thank you! It's getting there, although a bit damp this year! 😂
@@GosforthHandyman mate honestly, I’m just down the road from you in Durham and it’s woeful isn’t it, can’t even wash the bloody car 🤦🏼
Hi Andy excellent video, I've just ripped up my old decking to enlarge it. The original installation was similar to yours being slightly elevated, we also had pots etc all around the edge.
The deck was slightly elevated like yours. When I ripped up the old deck the only rotted areas were on the joists below where the plant pots had been. I didn't use deck tape, but the rot wasn't there it was on the sides.where there wasn't any plant pots the joists were fine. The decking had been down about 24 years. In rebuilding my new deck I've allowed for a solid concrete base for a large planter in the middle of the deck. Just might need thinking about.
Well done Andy! I really love your videos, your attention to all the details is really valuable!
Thank you - glad you enjoy them!
I’d have set the step boards at 90° to the main deck. Helps with the visual perception of a step too, especially for the elderly. Just a personal thing.
Great video as usual.
Could do! Cheers!
I was thinking the same, th eamount of time to get them all perfectly in line, I'd have given up and put them in at 90 degrees so it wouldn't matter.
That is so nice. Looks close to perfection to me. We lived in a house where we could open the door and walk straight onto the deck. We loved it. You will love yours as well, for many years.
Cheers - makes such a difference and the cats love it! 😍
Been a while since I watched one of your videos - I don't get much time to watch these days due to my 1 year old running around terrorising me all the time 😂
Must say I really enjoyed this video. Your attention to detail is superb. Love to see people taking pride in their work.
My OCD approves of your OCD!!
Love Your Videos thankyou. Thanks to You I can build a bathroom for my Mum.
That's awesome - thank you! 😎
Looks fantastic... Really well made.
Hi Andy, albeit from Birmingham, I live in Sweden and decking is unbelievably popular and very common over here. Much more than say brick patios. I don’t know anyone who uses this tape you have used on the joints and we have long winters with huge amounts of snow during this period, not to mention loads of rain as well. Almost as bad as Blighty 😂. As long as the wood is fully treated (impregnated) from factory and reasonably maintained over the years, it will not rot and last for many, many years. Sorry Andy but based on years of experience and much harsher weather, you have in all honesty spent £60 odd quid on something you didn’t really need. Albeit done a nice job. 👍👍 By the way Thompson weather seal does a great job of protecting the decking boards and stopping any algae and moss forming. 👍. Also no two boards are identical, so trying to get every board to line us to the mm is definitely a bad case of OCD mate. 😂🤯
Ha cheers! I suspect the timber is much higher quality and better treated over there. 👍
I wouldn’t bank on that Andy. To be honest getting good wood here and especially quality sheet material is a nightmare and bloody expensive. 🤯😩. But love how you did the decking and always nice regardless to see a person take pride in their work. Definitely better than most contractors for sure. 👍👍
Well done! Such patience and attention to detail. That is easily the best in the world. Can’t see any contractor going to those lengths (pardon the pun). I did a small area a long time ago and used one of the matrix kits on top of gravel with hand rails to my credit. I found that demanding enough. It lasted 10 years so I can’t complain. If I make it to 80 I’ll watch your inspection video then 🙂.
Andy that’s a really nice decking you have installed. I was sharing the pain on getting the boards aligned - I have OCD too when it comes to this sort of stuff. But when you are working with natural materials you know it is going to move but you cannot stop obsessing.😀👍🤣
Great job Andy 👌, my deck has been down 20 years now, still good & I didn’t use any of that fancy tape, probably didn’t exist back then 😂 so yours should be ok I reckon 👍😄.
Great job and very thorough Andy, well done
Cheers!
I used pvc DPC roll for the top of the joists stapled down. The deck was there for twenty odd years and the joists were still solid. If we didn't have to pull it all up because of a bamboo infestation it would still be there now. 'er indoors wanted a redesign with a couple of large raised planting boxes in oak and as I'm now over seventy we decided it was prudent to get someone in. 😁
That's really interesting to know! I've certainly seen decks with zero joist or timber treatment that have lasted 20+ years. Hope you got the bamboo sorted! 😬
Same, and it's about 5 quid for a massive long roll, wide enough for the water to bead off too
Actually! Tha IS the best deck in the world! - I'll be signing up
👍👍👍 Looking forward to the coming videos. Thanks Andy
So much care and attention to detail. Fantastic job 🌞
Thanks so much Ray! 😎
Fab job Andy
Cheers!
I'm sure, like me, you reviewed many ways of protecting your joists. I used this tape a couple of years ago. I had to rebuild my deck around my hot tub, 😮which lasted 16 years. The joists were rotting from the top, probably from where moisture could get to. Anyway, I made the decision to use this tape. It was quick and easy to lay along the top of the joists. I also used it to seal all the end grain of my noggins, too. It was expensive, but I feel I made the right decision from the various other methods I reviewed. I used 3 rolls. I used composite boards to top my decking. I'm only a diy-er
I am so grateful for you there is a number of reasons why I watch your videos first of your content is well put together from the years I Been watching second I like you as a individual your inspirational and my dad is from your neck of the woods he was a handyman like what I am but he was more on the building side of it all
I been asked to look at a deck that needs some tlc and I am glad I watched your videos on decking I have picked up some tricks and tips
For any project that will come up in the future thank you so much
Please do keep up the fantastic work you do
Hi Andy, good job on the decking, a shame the weather turned against you towards the end and continuous rain for days, you got the job done and it looks great. nice finish with the decking oil just looks amazing. Your tomatoes, veg and plants are looking good in the green house. Now the hard work is done, just sit back ans enjoy your fruits of your labour with a nice cold drink. As always a great video catch you soon Take care
Thank you - that was a week or so ago too - the tomato plants are nearly at the roof! 😬😂
Walther strong £36 from Eurocell in Durham for 20m 100 mm Walther strong 20m 50 mm £19.20 free postage over £50. Very informative videos👌
Hi Andy, Looks great. Watch out in the winter when it’s icy. My mother has a similar set up and in the cold weather it is very hazardous.
Thank you!
With your attention to the details your decking looks fantastic and fits your new extension really well. Nice to see the decking boards the right way up too!😂 Thanks for the video. Cheers.
Thank you! Hopefully easier to maintain this way too! 👍
Grand job done there Andy👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Turned out just beatiful! Lovely space for a nice cup of tea.
Bloody beautiful as always 🙌🏼
Outrageous. You have fitted the deck boards the correct way up!
Ha ha of course! 😂👍
Hi Andy that’s looks absolutely beautiful , and so in keeping with the rest of the build . Your final remarks regarding the continual maintenance is so important , many people have fallen out of love with decking because it can lose its look over time. And even become a green slippery mess , but it doesn’t have to be that way . Thank again for yet another inspiring video 👍
Cheers and you're exactly right! Bit of yearly maintenance and it can last for a long time. 👍
Nice job Andy. All the best from Australia.
Cheers and greetings to Australia! 🦘😎
Nice work mate. When I did mine, the boards were still green and absolutely saturated, so I decided to butt them up with no gap. I figured they can't expand anymore. Now I have a pretty big gap in summer and next to none in winter. This annoys me with timber decking. Sometimes I see people with 10+ mm gaps.
Bl00dy marvellous.....
5:16 and also 15:20. When you say, that round-over the ends of the deack boards give much nicer finish, that's true But what really makes nicest finish, is actually picture frame board, that closes ends of all deckboards running perpendicularlly to them on the edge of deck. .. Just a thought..
Love your mitres on the step trim….I can never get a perfect fit…
Thanks Andy, that looks great, I appreciate your attention to detail, I'd be the same as any inconsistencies would bug me every time I looked at it ! Looking forward to the ancillary videos, perhaps you could also add one "simple wood-working projects from deck-board off-cuts" ?
Somebody from the road leading to ours had a deck laid about 20 years ago and they had a great pile of off-cuts to be chucked away so your's truly asked permission then took my wheelbarrow and filled it twice, it makes me smile as the deck was ripped out and replaced about 10 years ago and I'm still using up the off-cuts today ! 😉
Ha that's awesome! I do have a LOT of very short off-cuts. Yet to come up with a project for them. 👍
@@GosforthHandymanmy vote is planters :)
Oh what a pleasure for my eyes! Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you!!
Stunning attention to preserving the life of this deck.
Take care laying timber boards one after the other though.
Most of the time the boards are swollen in the middle more than the ends so if you pull them to a 5mm spacer each time you'll start bowing every board.
Its good practice to mark out every forth or fifth board to a line then infilling each section.
This looks great though top job 👌
Yeah, checked every few boards and used different spacers to suit. 👍👍
Looks awesome. I remember when that area was a mud bath.
Me too - so nice not to fall out the back of the house any more!
Really detailed and informative. Thanks!
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looks mint
Very nice job mate be proud of your self 🏆🏆🏆
Thank you!
What an awesome deck you made there. Your attention to detail is equal to mine. Your skill is far above mine. Well done!
Thank you!!
Fantastic work! One quick comment, I've watched many videos similar to this and they tend to always use wider deck tape. Also, a perimeter board tends to look better, for the cornes they meet at 45 degree angle so it's seemless. Other then that, looks great!
Cheers! I debated going for a wider tape but wanted to try this DeckTape Pro stuff and it only comes in 50mm. 👍
Hi Andy. This is a different brand name tape than what I use, but I'm pretty sure it's the same (vulcanised tape). Don't worry about that tape sticking. I would rather wish you good luck trying to ever getting that tape off again.
Fantastic job, well executed, nicely filmed. Personally I preferred the building without the decking, but its not my house!
Thank you!!
Thank you for the videos I'm definitely looking forward to doing my own decking you made it look so much simpler than I was expecting we had decking down when I first moved in to my house but had to rip it up as my wife and kids walked on it and went through it luckily it wasn't high hoping to have decking with a pergola but looking forward to the challenge
Fantastic stuff - best of luck with your project!
Great job Andy....deck envy!!
Cheers! 👍
Looks great Andy 👍
Looking forward to the obligatory pergola and hot tub 🤣
Ha ha - perhaps a pizza oven! 😉
@@GosforthHandyman Even better!!
Very professional job.
Can you educate screws . Different place different screws in this job . Appreciate
A fix for the lines near the step in my opinion would've been to run a board perpendicular to the deck boards, wouldve also indicated a step and help blend the transition
wow the disappearing mrs mack at the end was a cool trick
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Nice deck mate, I personally would have gone for a floating deck style. Just means you don't see the crude posts
I like that you ran the wood out from the house not horizontally. Admittedly diagonal looks nice but presumably a mither to fit.
Cheers! Yeah, this was defo one of the requirements. 👍👍
I always left an overhang on the deck boards. About 1" or so, just to help keep weather off the framing (like a roof overhang and give it a trim look.
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looks awsome
Cheers!
Nice job 👍🏼
Thank you!
Hi good evening i am very impressed with your Deck build its beautiful however it missing a veranda to protect it from rain and other natural elements
This is the best deck in the country
Ha thank you!
Hi Andy 👋🏻 trying to understand how it works when it rains. I know you'll have it sorted, but how does it work with the damp proof course when the deck butts up to the render? Is there a gap between them? Thanks 🪚👍🏻
Hi Andy great video as usual. The De Walt drill looked good . What one was it you got was it a twin pack 🙏🙏🙏
Andy - just get a 4x4 pop up gazebo and you can work away in the rain and keep us entertained!
Nice Andy, inset step and all. My 2 penny’s worth mitres way to go, opening up or not 👍🏻
Cheers! I'd tend to agree on the mitres. 👍
Great decking Andy and the right way down seen too many with grooves up. Are you doing a rail at the other end or surround? Flawless Cleaning are looking for help for an elderly couple to help fix their conservatory from collapse I thought of you maybe you can lend your skills? well done on the garden as well :)
Great work Andy, as we've come to expect. Using the plain side of the boards looks so much better than those silly ribs, that then gather all of the detritus. Did you return the defective boards? They were terrible.
Any thoughts about how slippery the deck may get?
I love your attention to detail. I think this is a case of an ‘amateur’ job being superior to a ‘professional’ one because you spend the extra time to be really thorough. I think the step would have been easier if you’d done it on the short side of the deck so that the boards ran longways.
Cheers! We may add one on the short side too. 👍
Aah Andy. I was full sure you said ‘insect step’ not ‘inset step’ in the last video. I even paused the video and googled ‘insect step’ for 15 mins. I’m going building a deck so I was thinking if Andy put in an ‘insect step’ then I better too 😂😂
I'm honestly tempted to add one now! 😂
Looks great. Could you give a rough indication as to how much you spent on the materials for the deck. Uk £. Cheers
You've done a great job mate, looks awsome for the occasional sunny day we get in the Newcasrte area. About the step, did you use the cut ends in the same order and orientation as you cut them off? As you know, planed wood has 'nominal' dimensions and depending on the wetness of the wood, each plank will be slightly different. Great Job!!!
Thank you and spot on with your other comment! No, foolishly I mixed them up when I picked up the step boards which is one of the reasons I had to spend so long mucking about with the spacers afterwards. 😂👍
I've read conflicting opinions about whether to fit the boards with a gap or not. Some claim treated deck boards *always* shrink, others claim the gap is necessary. Hopefully you'll do an update in a year or two so we can see how it's holding up. Looks great now!
If the boards are fitted after a spell of dry, warm summer weather they probably won't shrink much further and I would fit them with very slightly less than the desired gap. However, if fitted damp, or in the winter I would fit them almost touching, as they will shrink a lot in the warmer weather.
What warmer weather?
I've gone for quite a big gap (5mm) - again mainly for airflow and easy water run-off between the boards. 👍
Hi Andy. Want to do a similar set up for the deck. Did you deck over the bifold threshold/cill? I tried to see in various angles throughout the video but couldn't. Nothing on the Internet that's helping either. Looks great mate!
Great job Andy why are the grooves on the decking facing the floor ,will the decking not be slippy when walking on the smooth boards when wet .
50 x 6m == 300 minutes chief. Great video as ever nonetheless Andy.
Yeah lost it 😂😂
That rain is here to (northern schermany). Protects us from some brutal heat on the other hand...
We briefly had some sun... but it's gone now. 😭🌞
What's your opinion about the deck height... shouldn't it be 150mm below DPC?
Mr G try the product made here in the USA called prosoco!
awesome work Andy. A question on visitors getting under the decking, are you hoping the cats will take care of that?
How does this work if the deck goes above the house dpc?
If it was me I would have done a picture frame edge with the decking running left to right
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Oh man.. for the top surface, get a soft floor brush and a baking tray and put it on with that. Done in no time, even finish. Still looks good your way, just more brush strokes. It would still run down the edges, gives your knees a break
Sorry for the dumb question but when you use the plunge saw how does the track stay in place? Do you fasten it down with a couple screws?
There's a bit of foam stuff on the bottom of the track and it's REALLY grippy (as long as the surface isn't dusty). If you're on a surface where it feels like it might move you can clamp it but it's amazing how well that foam stuff works. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman thanks so much!
I was wondering this aswell,so thanks for the question and thanks for the answer.
One of the most common mistakes that I see people building decks is spacing the deck boards.
After a couple of years, there will be plenty of space opening up between those deck boards as they shrink, believe me.
I built my parents deck. My father and I pried each board tight against each other so there were no gaps between the boards. Three yaers later there were huge gaps between the boards, some as much as 3/4".
Defo! With this being on a shady north facing wide we want plenty gaps for airflow. 👍
My personal theory is that during the summer everyone and their granny wants to build a deck. So the decking lumber gets produced on mass with close to no regards to the quality because there just isn't enough lumber available to treat and make decking boards of.
So you should probably try to build your deck early to mid spring so that there is enough quality lumber around.
Very possibly! Although this looked like it had been sitting in the builder's merchant for years! Some boards had tyre marks on. 😂🙄
Nice watch! Ticwatch Pro 5? :D I have Pro 3 Ultra
Well spotted! Enduro 👍💪
Beautiful deck! What's the plan for recovering items from below the deck? Any cards can easily slip through e.g. driving license or a credit card of your guest who came over for a bbq. Cheers!
Can just whip a board up worst cast - couple of mins. 👍👍
How can you build up to dpc minimum 150mm to ground level please explain.
Why not use a DPM roll on the joists?
6:00 - I did not get the math: 6x50 = 150?
Yeah 300 mins is 5 hours. No wonder
Yeah I lost the plot. 😂
For a moment, I thought you said "Not enough Flowers in a day" :)
There's never enough flowers in the day! 🌸🌹😁
Looks great!
Cheers!
We've bought decking from many places over the years and never been truly happy with the quality..
Have you put anything to prevent rats nesting under neath