Waldo's Deck

[Cliff Rogers]

The bottom rail on our steps in Cairns doesn't have a channel, it has a rebate on the inside & the uprights stand in the rebate.
That way it doesn't trap any water.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Just wondering... is there really any need for a bottom rail?

Why not just drill a hole at the correct spot in the end of each decking board (oh, for a morticing drill!) or mebbe every second one... and cut a tenon on each upright so it just drops in?

[Gra]

Just wondering... is there really any need for a bottom rail?

Why not just drill a hole at the correct spot in the end of each decking board (oh, for a morticing drill!) or mebbe every second one... and cut a tenon on each upright so it just drops in?

Oh where did I put that square drill bit..... I cant see any reason it couldn't be done that way skew. Maybe it would be harder to sweep the leaves off the end into the garden

[Howdya do that]

Build yourself a Rolls Royce router table and you could make any thing your heart desires.

Know any good router table builders

[Gra]

Will agree with you on the too much merbeu. it would be very brown/red.. The Ash or blackbutt suggested above would look good, not sure on the longevity though

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Oh where did I put that square drill bit..... I cant see any reason it couldn't be done that way skew. Maybe it would be harder to sweep the leaves off the end into the garden

Leaves? At Waldo's? I don't think his grass grows that big...

As for the contrast, it depends on how much maintenance he wants to put into it. If it's going to see a lot of exposure and only be oiled once every ten years when the outside of the house get's a touch-up (if it's lucky), then there's not much point in going for contrast. It all silvers up eventually.

However, if you plan on oiling it every year or two then it'd make a nice feature.

[Gra]

Leaves? At Waldo's? I don't think his grass grows that big...

I was being polite, I did mean vitamin skins

[Waldo]

The bottom rail on our steps in Cairns doesn't have a channel, it has a rebate on the inside & the uprights stand in the rebate.
That way it doesn't trap any water.

'cept I like the typical Qld handrail on stairs where the balustrates (typo?) (the vitamins have kicked in so excuse the brain phart) are mortised in. My earlier post is the way I'll go except I'm still no wiser on the what to use. Merbau for top and bottom rails are locked in.

Gra is with me, my gut instinct say merbau for everything will be overkill so I'll go with that. Ash or blackbut as pointed out again by Gra, anyone know of it's life? Yep, the plan is to oil yearly - heck if I'm spending money and not going with carp treated pine boards, then I'll be looking after it, the grass can do what it likes. Floorboard wise, would jarrah work for the slats?

Could just do a top top h/rail and mortise in, SWMBO will have to give approval if we go down that track.

Anyways I have a little bit of time before I get to doing the handrails. Skew and I will knock heads and see what's what.

[manoftalent]

if you want a nice contrast .....what about cyprus slats ?

[Waldo]

Well, it's been a while since I posted anything in here (please excuse and tytpos I mise, damn vitamins ).

The deck hit snags from day one. The neighbour and I strung up the lines for the posts, I hired a post hole digger and of 15 holes or so, all bar 3 holes hit teracotta pipe, PVC pipe, hot water and cold and conduit, useless Dial b 4 you Dig (the last 3 we found later from the neighbour ran off into who knows where for a granny flat)

Still on day one, we found that the outer permieter for the merbau posts hit t/pipe, punctured them and confirmed that they were indeed dead pipes. So no worries, we smashed 'em for the holes. A liitle bit down and still for the external merbau posts we hit PVC. If we went in further and made new holes we'd hit more PVC, so the deck by no choice got extended width wise. RThe next line of posts (to be cypress) we hit another line of t/pipes. I punched a hole in them didn't I said (Skew was there) they;re dead the next day it rained, so I thought I'll just check on the holes , they had water in ;em didn't they. - they were live pipes for the downwater from from gutter. So 2 days into the deck I was digging a trench - 2 days it took, so this brought me to the 4th day of proceedings when I was hoping to have the decking on it's way.

So anyway, today I finally got down to having the majority of posts concreted in (60 bags of cement later) all bar 2 posts for the steps done.

(what am I up to )

Yeah, I decided to go down the path of doing all visible posts and hanrails and pailings in merbau, sure it costs extra, but if I'm doing something I'd rather not cut costs and do it right. The top and bottom handrails, 85x40, will be have a 19mm channel down their guts which I'll have 70x19 merbau decking, which I''l cut down to size, and fill with merbau spacers, as per advice given to me by whatsit bloke somewhere in this thread, for the advice.

Anyway, so shots below of progress so far and a couple showing I have no rtoom in the shed at the moment given that it's full of stuff for the decking. And, oh yeah, I took back today 11 90x45 @ 3.6m and 2 140x45 @ 36m and another length @ 3.6m can't remember what sixze 'coz I just can't right now, they were all bananas and useless for nothing whatsoever.

(kepp getting, I've uplaoded 16 pics and I have a minium of 12 , I've only uploaded 4, so I'll come back later ok, yeah? Just imagine the pics for a bit ok?

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

At least the destruction is done and the construction has started...

[Waldo]

Too right Skew, too right.

Next time on the menu I should put some coffee beans on. Unless you're happy with the current one.

[DJ’s Timber]

Is that all you've done , Skews not pushing you hard enough .

At least you left some room in the shed for the missus car, can't have that sitting outside hey

[Waldo]

Is that all you've done , Skews not pushing you hard enough .

Should've seen the trench for the new stormwater and holes, then you'd get the idea of the time delay.

At least you left some room in the shed for the missus car, can't have that sitting outside hey

way. She's on holiday, but even still, if I hadn't I'd be shot. It was also laid down as a rule of law, that her car had to stay in the shed. :insertscaredofSWMBOsmilie:

Haven't posted it yet, but today I moved a stack load of dirt out of the way, and thre of us got the bearers up, tomorrow the joists and whatever else gets done.

[DJ’s Timber]

Should've seen the trench for the new stormwater and holes, then you'd get the idea of the time delay.

Excuses, excuses