Deck project – update with pics

As usual, the deck addition project has taken on a life of its own. The old part of the deck was painted when I bought the house and I painted it twice. So I started sanding the old deck and in the course of doing that, found a number of planks that needed to be replaced. In these AM pics, you can see the painted planks vs the replacements. The lighter wood color are the planks that I sanded.

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I also turned over a couple of planks as the other side was not painted and in good shape. Then the tiny belt the drives the belt sander broke (ordered a replacement but won’t be here for a week or so). I started to use the orbital sander but wow…. my hands hurt something fierce about 4:30 PM. So I counted the remaining planks and just went and bought more. Installed six of them in an hour.

Here’s what it looked like at the end of today.

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Now I’m exhausted and my hands hurt.

And oh yea, I was using my saw to remove old nails and slipped and jabbed my shin with the saw – nice painful hole in my leg now.

I’ll be glad when this project is done.

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