Here is a break down of how it progressed.
Tuesday 3rd Feb
We had already dug the holes for the posts which would hold the frame of the deck. We had to remove some excess soil so that the frame would be sitting off the ground.
Here the first bearer has been bolted to the house.
We then attached the joist hangers to the bearers.
Wednesday 4th Feb
Next we started to screw the perimiter beams to bearers.
We then dropped the joists into the joist hangers.
Thursday 5th Feb
Here is the frame finished with steel posts cemented into the ground.
Friday 6th Feb
We then started to lay the deck boards out ready to be screwed to the joists. This took a bit of working out so that we would not have too much waste.
We started to screw the boards down
We then couldn't do anything for a week due to work commitments.
Friday 13th Feb
We finished off srewing the deck boards down.
Just need to add a step down to the garden and some fascia around the front and sides. We also need to add 1.8m high privacy screens at the sides of the deck to comply with council regs.
4 comments:
Wow! Very impressed! Your family must have someone in the landscaping business to be able to do all these landscaping/decking stuffs all by yourself in such a professional way.
Great to see your house progressing every day, keep on the good work and show us more photos!
Cheers
Allan
http://building-our-first-house.blogspot.com/
May I ask who the manufacturer of your front door is?
Thanks!
Hello, we are in the process of building a house at West Ryde. Could you pls let us know what you have done with on site water detention at the end and the cost? Did you organise the work youself or thru the builder?
Thanks,
Fiona
Sorry it's taken so long to reply to you all. We have parents visiting from the UK so haven't had time for our blog lately.
Hi Allen, Thanks for the complements. We soon realised that we would have to do most of the landscaping ourselves as our budget barely covered the materials. We are both keen DIY er's so with the help of a few books, magazines and the internet we've managed to do most of the landscaping ourselves. The deck design is from a Better homes and garden magazine which we adjusted to suit our house.
Hi Wendy, The doors are made by Hume. Pretty sure they are an Australian company so you might not be able to get them in America.
Hi Fiona, We have posted in the past about our storm water detention check the following link.
http://housebuildingdiary.blogspot.com/2008/07/storm-water-installation.html
We contacted John who is in Ryde and is familiar with Ryde council. His website is
http://www.i-e-s.com.au/index.html
All up it probably cost us around $5000
Good luck with your build.
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