Why I was so busy. Pictures !

**frodobaggins** · 10-04-2003, 05:34 PM

Just finished building this for a co-worker.

**frodobaggins** · 10-04-2003, 05:35 PM

**frodobaggins** · 10-04-2003, 05:35 PM

**frodobaggins** · 10-04-2003, 05:36 PM

**frodobaggins** · 10-04-2003, 05:37 PM

**freestyler** · 10-04-2003, 07:02 PM

man the monkey works hard

that looks awesome....nice place to chill

**albysure** · 10-04-2003, 08:55 PM

as someone that has a ton of decking in his backyard i can appreciate the hard work you did. in la how deep do you have to dig the posts? up here in mass i have to go at least 4'--sucks! only one thing...i don't know how the pressure trested wood dries out down there but if i did that up here the spaces would almost double in size by next summer. how do i know that? my first deck is spaced out farther than the additions i did to it! lol

again--great job and design

**frodobaggins** · 10-04-2003, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by albysure

as someone that has a ton of decking in his backyard i can appreciate the hard work you did. in la how deep do you have to dig the posts? up here in mass i have to go at least 4'--sucks! only one thing...i don't know how the pressure trested wood dries out down there but if i did that up here the spaces would almost double in size by next summer. how do i know that? my first deck is spaced out farther than the additions i did to it! lol

again--great job and design

I used deck blocks, only a couple of the posts are buried, I go about 2.5' to 3'.
The frost line here is like 10" or less so you don't have to go deep.

It's pretty humid here, the spacing now is 1/4 inch, it looks larger because of the
bevel on the boards, I expect it to get to about 3/8 before it stops but it might
get to 1/2"