Phil shows you how to lay out a wooden deck, and how to adjust for your board widths. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Intro00:22 You want to account for board width01:00 Deck layout and how to measure/mark01:10 Using 16″ centers instead of 20″04:30 Measure twice, cut once06:20 Layout is complete06:32 follow us 🙏 Subscribe, 👍, it helps a lot!!➤❓/ … Read more
Now, when it comes to building a 12×12 with a dress upside, and the covered sides. You have to allow that in reality in a three and an eighth, three and a quarter smaller, because boards are inch and a half, inch and three quarters. So, it be 3 1/8, 3 1/8, it’d be 6 … Read more
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⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 The deck was connected to the siding 00:22 Put a brace in the middle 00:42 We put extra support because the rim joist is rotted 01:10 Recommend double bracing on the side of a hill
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Transcript: This deck was connected to that siding, and the siding was gone for about half of it. And the other half is doing all right. So instead of just going in the middle and normally I wouldn’t go more than six feet and this is less than six feet, but they did about 12 feet without a support in the middle. And we put one in, but they pulled it back from the middle toward the back to help support this back here.
And then we jacked up, put the four by fours in and then lag bolt through the two, the two by sixes on each side to support it. And then because it’s still not connected very well to the what they would call a rim joist. Which is the two by six that runs on the outside of the floor joist that’s pretty rotted.
Um, so we put braces so that this side would stay no matter what. So we’re supported back there and we’re braced, and that would be something I always recommend that you get when you do whenever you go on to a side of a hill with a deck, it’s going to want to go down the hill. So you want to put supports in no more than six feet at a time should be a support through, and then you ought to put some diagonal braces. And that’s what I was going to show you.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 What we’re doing on this job 00:16 Estimating a job, don’t forget this 01:23 You want to account for board width 01:55 Deck layout and how to measure/mark 02:05 Using 16″ centers instead of 20″ 05:26 Measure twice, cut once 07:20 Layout is complete 07:45 Secured it to the fence 08:12 Why we laid the deck out the way we did 08:45 Who knew Phil spent all day screwing off, literally 09:10 Finished deck
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Gazebo on, We’re going to have a wood walkway out here in this beautiful little yard. Take you through it step by step. The first thing that I had to learn when I started out in the business was really not estimating. Of course, that. Is a part of it. You sit down, break down how much you’re going to have, allow 10%. But one of the fatal mistakes that I made. Early on, over and over again. Is I would forget the time that it took to go get the materials, that is.
Load up a trailer, air up the tires. Driving the town. Go in there, load up all those materials, put them on the trailer, strap it all down and bring it back. Walk it into the places you’re working on. So whenever you’re doing it, say if you’re doing it for somebody or if you’re doing it for yourself, you need to allow that much time.
There’s probably an hour and a half altogether moving it around. So but other times you got to go another hour to the job, sometimes 2 hours. You might have five, 6 hours with two guys, three guys you have all that time. So, you need to be careful.
Now, when it comes to building a 12×12 with a dress upside, and the covered sides. You have to allow that in reality in a three and an eighth, three and a quarter smaller, because boards are inch and a half, inch and three quarters. So, it be 3 1/8, 3 1/8, it’d be 6 1/4” smaller than 12’ is what we’re going to cut the runners, keep in mind when you’re doing it yourself.
So, you got to allow for the outside. This is going to have the frame and then it’s going to have a dress up board to cover the ends around it to dress up nice.
I have the boards running this way. So I have to make the framework go this way instead of go two-foot center, we’re doing 16” centers, which is a little more cost for a lot more strength. So here we are. You’ve got to remember to allow for the wrap around it. And that’s going to be three inches. But let’s say that I’m going to have the board going.
This way first. So, I allow an inch and half past to the outside and center of the first one would be 16. If you notice, I have both sides. So, they’re both prepared at the same time. That’s the center. So if the board is inch and half, it would be three quarters back, then inch and half is the width. So now we’re dead center and we’re on 16 inch.
And then from that point, I mark an X right here when I go 16 inches from the side with the same. Center to center and side to side. And then I mark which side it goes. 16 and 32, 48, 54, 80, 96, 112, 128. So go back an inch and half, then I got to allow for all said and done.
Six and eight. So, inch and half, and four and five-eighths. Okay. Cut that part off. Measure twice, cut once. Now if you notice, I made these marks. I have. This speed square here, I can. Do both at the same time. You deal with a framing square the same. And a plastic one works just as good. It’s just not quite fancy. Not quite as professional. It will work. I’m marking where the stud goes. And they can see it.
All right. There it is. We’re going to start setting it all up.
All right. What we did was. Everything’s on 16-inch centers. Like I said, probably cost $15 more to do it on 16-inch centers as opposed to two foot, just for revenues in making it look pretty. So the edges are going to show and I want it to be uniform. So I put this board behind there. He wanted it fastened against the or up against the fence.
And then we put all kinds of supports underneath this so that it won’t bounce when we put the wood on it. And you see, there’s a lot of bricks around because we don’t have beams to support. So we’re ready to now start laying the boards across on with a space of the thickness of a pencil and why we’re laying it this way instead of this way, because I figured he’d be looking for the living room and see in that will look longer with the floor joists I mean the floor cover going this way, whereas it went this way, it kind of looks shorter.
But also we’re going to have the walkway boards going this way also. So I kind of look all uniform and big from the living room. So that’s what we’re going to do. We’re building this to have a ten foot by ten-foot metal good metal gazebo and everything’s done with screws.
It’s like I was telling you he was saying, It’s the proof that I screw off all day long doing. Three screws per. Trying to keep the gap pretty even in. Usually this tightens it up, big time. But we’re coming together. I’ll show you some pictures as we go along.
This deck yesterday, but people were playing on it as quick as we got finished. But this is the finished product. He has a dress up board on the outside, all the more discreet off.
We had a little runner to the steps, but here it is. This is what they’re going to have for a gazebo that’ll be on another video.
Went through and completely replaced the front porch for the customer. He did change his mind, so as always, we work to make the customer happy.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 Some joke about hands in his pockets–couldn’t make it out 00:19 We are lowering the deck down and completely re-doing it 00:29 Dug out an area to pour concrete 00:39 Stom coming so we had to hurry. We poured concrete 01:05 Framed in the deck, it is bigger than they had 01:17 Will have steps on both sides after done 01:48 Put even steps like the other side 02:20 The final product
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Hey guys, you see me with my hands in my pockets more this year it will be because I like my pockets??? The project we’ve got here, lowering that deck down so that whenever snow gets on there it doesn’t catch. We’re going to be 5 inches down. So that it will slip off the sides. It’s going to be low enough that we’re probably not going to put handrails off to the sides. And then the steps going to go on top of the concrete here that we’re going to pour. Which we’ve already dug out, you missed out on that. Little bit of sweat, when we got to that. So we’ll give you videos as we go along.
We had to get in a hurry because we’ve got a storm coming. So we did. Sorry we didn’t take you all the way through this. But to explain we had makes the concrete. Put it in. Finished it, to get some soup on top and get the rocks down. Rush finish on that, hopefully that’ll be as you can see, it’s green stuff they call green concrete. And this is, you know, older, gray. That’ll turn gray and it’ll be almost light gray tomorrow. Then we frame to a bigger the actually deck was smaller than is now. And we made it bigger so they could come out around the door. The step will be over that way. And then they can go in with the groceries. And then what I did over here was I split the steps. So it has three even distances. Later on.
Tomorrow, we’re going to fill all this in with solid wood. All that will be solid wood. And then we’ll do the same on this side tomorrow. We’ll see more tomorrow.
What we’ve done is made it with the steps are even like we did on the other side. This is how we supported it, because it’s less than five and a half inch. It’s as far as width support. We had to use 2 to 4 and then support them and we used materials we had here, and maybe more than what we needed.
And so we’ll fill this in with, with two by sixes and then we’ll come along and fill all this solid underneath, all the way around and it will hold up to heavy duty loads.
Hi guys. This is the final decision. He changed his mind and wanted to put some handrails up and we put some handrails up and filled in everything solid. Later on, whenever the moisture gets out of the boards, two months, three months. We’ll stain it and probably paint this too.
At the same time accent color all the steps are even. And now, when he puts a carport over here, he can get it from either vehicle. So job is accomplished, and everybody’s happy.
