2019 Deck Project

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Painting and Repairing our <strong>Deck</strong>s: <strong>2019</strong> It’s been 10 years since we painted them, which is really quite good, but we decided this year that we’d have to repaint, starting with the front deck. FRONT DECK: Here’s what we decided to do: 1. Replace the top blue rails with composite (mixture of wood and plastic) as it would not weather, wouldn’t need painting and will be a generally low-maintenance solution. 2. Some of the wooden upright railings were rotting and would need repair (filling with wood filler). 3. At the left corner where the rails joined the main post, they were rotting at the join (and so was the post). The rails would have to be replaced and the post repaired with wood filler. 4. The front deck plank is weathering badly in places, and cannot be removed because the posts stand on it. Instead I will fill and repair the cracks with epoxy filler that should preserve the wood for years to come. 5. The blue paint on the woodwork around the door and windows needs redoing. 6. The deck floor will have to be repainted. We will use stain instead of paint: it looks the same, but stain adheres to the wood much better than paint.
Getting started: The top (blue) rail has already been removed. This is the corner post where I had previously filled and patched the hole caused by wood rot with foam before smoothing and painting over it. Now it all has to come out so that the hole can be filled with solid wood filler.
Page 1: Summer 2019 Home Project Mike & Jud
Page 5 and 6: Here the top cross rails have been
Page 7 and 8: Looking along the front deck, with
Page 10 and 11: This lower step is badly rotted. If
Page 12 and 13: I then fixed all the bad pieces of
Page 14 and 15: This corner is looking a lot better
Page 16 and 17: Certainly looking a lot better, and
Page 18 and 19: … and this is the new.

2019 Deck Project

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