Since the car is well sorted and running well, I needed a project. Knew when we bought this place almost two years ago that the rear deck was gonna go. It was old, ratty, built terrible and not all that sturdy. Deb and I started on it last Wednesday and I finished it up today.
This is what it looked like before we bought it. The screened porch was not touched!
I went to town with the sawzall and the chainsaw.
Had to do some frame repair behind the old ledger board. Fixed that and added more insulation behind it and finished it off with a piece of flashing. I tried finding more of the vinyl siding, but no luck. Got a gallon of ext paint matched to the siding. Primed all with Kilz and then topcoated everything.
Once the repairs were finished, I had to address the dirt. While there has never been a water intrusion problem, I decided to work the ground and get the slopes a little better. That's where the Tiller came in handy. Two days on that toy took care of the dirt. Once I got that ground where I wanted it, I addressed the areas under the windows. Dug out more dirt and added walls and river rock. The entire area that was under the old deck was a combo of pea gravel and dirt and was that way as far as I dug down (at least 2'), so again, was not worried about adding a drain down to the weeping tile system.
This is what it looked like before we bought it. The screened porch was not touched!
I went to town with the sawzall and the chainsaw.
Had to do some frame repair behind the old ledger board. Fixed that and added more insulation behind it and finished it off with a piece of flashing. I tried finding more of the vinyl siding, but no luck. Got a gallon of ext paint matched to the siding. Primed all with Kilz and then topcoated everything.
Once the repairs were finished, I had to address the dirt. While there has never been a water intrusion problem, I decided to work the ground and get the slopes a little better. That's where the Tiller came in handy. Two days on that toy took care of the dirt. Once I got that ground where I wanted it, I addressed the areas under the windows. Dug out more dirt and added walls and river rock. The entire area that was under the old deck was a combo of pea gravel and dirt and was that way as far as I dug down (at least 2'), so again, was not worried about adding a drain down to the weeping tile system.