“Honey Do” Hot Place

[Bert]

Looks Good! I've been doing some deck work around our place as well. As far as railing cost and ease its hard to beat the cable railing systems. Granted its all in the look you are going for and may not fit your taste but a spool of railing cable, some end ties and crimper is fast, easy and effective.

[SawyerTed]

Yes, I agree, cable railing is cost effective if building the cable system from scratch.  Less than $150 for 1000 feet of cable.  The hardware comes in kits as well for not too much money. I looked into cable before starting this whole project. 

Eight or ten horizontal strands would probably have worked.   

Pre packaged systems are either cheaply made or ridiculously expensive. 

Emily said it looks too much like high tensile cattle fence.  We both have strung about all the fence we ever want to.  Horizontal cable won't pass the grandson climbing test.    Part of this deck is 12' off the ground.  Grandson's parents, and his grandmother vetoed cable.    

[NE Woodburner]

Good looking deck. Nice thing about the black is they kind of disappear when looking through them to the scenery beyond.

[Bert]

I agree with that. It's a ladder effect and frowned upon by insurance. I do enjoy the open view though and is rigid enough to keep a cow in provided the grass is green enough.

[SawyerTed]

I'm sitting here on the finished deck trying to cool down a bit.  The deck addition and renovation of the old deck turned out pretty nice.  

Rolling gates keep the grandson contained and away from the steps and I found some nice pickets for the stairs.  

I've moved on to a new project that I've put off too long.  It time to build a fence to protect the Mayor of our community.  Dixie is my dog.    She has a tendency to visit the neighborhood but mostly my children's homes.  We have to go get her sometimes because she thinks her home is about 1000 acres.   


So in goes a fence for her protection and so see can go outside without supervision or being tethered.  


Good Ole Dixie.  She's 10 years old 

[SawyerTed]

It's been a busy few weeks.  Had to finish the fence.  Then we have transitioned to getting ready to go to Portsmouth Village on our annual volunteer stint.   

This is the gate from our upper driveway into the backyard. The 6x6 on the left is to mount Emily's farm bell.  We've had it for 30 years, this will be our 3rd post for the bell.  


Getting the camper ready, I found the 12 volt water pump wasn't working.   It was 9 years old so I went ahead and ordered one.  Amazon delivered overnight and I worked on trying to get it working this morning.  No luck.  It wouldn't self prime.  I figured it had a bad diaphragm.  I setup the return to Amazon.  

Drove to Greensboro to get one from Camping World. Installed it and had the same problem.  After  troubleshooting, which I should have done more with the first pump, I determined the problem was in this set of valves and connections and the pump was sucking air.  

A quick trip to the hardware store and assistance from one of the best hardware store men around I had the parts to replace the conglomeration.  


It worked.  This is the replacement. 


Of course, I had to be Papa Ted all along.  

[doc henderson]

Our first German Shepard, was a Winn Dixie.