There has been more deck progress! We talked about it here, but that was just to say the deck was partially gone. (Thanks Jimmy)
Here it is more gone.
Check out the giant cave that the previous owners’ dogs left. This is now our tornado shelter.
After removing the deck, we still had a lovely 7 inch thick pad of concrete. Michael stubborned his way through a section of it with a sledge hammer (stubborning is a verb that Michael is adept at; it takes qualifications).
And then decided that a jack hammer (called demolition hammer by all the rental places) would work a few months more quickly.
We got a 4 hour rental for a 70 pound demo hammer from Home Depot for $56 after tax. They had hammers as small as 11 pounds, but those are not intended for 7 inch slabs.
It took Michael an hour to go from this…
To this:
That’s the same amount of time it took for him to sledgehammer off the first section. PS: If it sounds like Michael did all of the work… that would be because he did 😀
In other news…
We also got the deck lumber order. It was entertaining/terrifying to watch the forklift navigate over the fence, budge forward 3 inches, and then duck under the power lines.
Tada! Our Deck:
The wood is still banded together, and we tarped it right after it got rained on. We’re hoping to delay as much shrinking until after installation as possible.
Our next steps are to clear the site, shorten the ledger board, and dig and pour the footers. Then it’s deck party time 🙂
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