Porch Decking & Overloaded Trailer

[Magicman]

Both roofing contractors have been here, measured, made notes, and will furnish me with an estimate.  One would be all stick construction and the other would be all metal construction.  We shall see but I would prefer the all metal version.  I just hope that the estimates do not exceed my $$.

61 is soon.   

[doc henderson]

offer a little milling and barter.

[Magicman]

That may sound good on the surface but it would not an option with either of these contractors although we did talk sawmilling a bit and one of them may need some old timbers resawed.  They have materials to buy and labor to pay and I doubt that either of them would be interested in a whack of 2X4's.  

61 is soon. 

[Southside]

MM I think we may have a Palindromic sort of relationship here, for me 16 is coming.  

[Magicman]

I finished laying this second tier on March 21. 

It was laid tight with absolutely no gap between the kiln dried pressure treated 2X6's.

I took this picture this morning which shows:

Between an eight to a quarter inch spacing between the boards.  I am pleased.

An odd thing that I found while handling the 2X6's was:

I noticed that this one had a plastic plug indicating that the treatment facility had taken a core sample.  I suppose that they were verifying the pressure treatment penetration depth.

The plug was wood colored and you can see where I scratched the surface.

[doc henderson]

MM, kiln dried after treatment by you?  or just standard lumber, kiln dried and then pressure treated.  The saturation, weight and MC of PT wood varies greatly.  It seems like a good idea for more refined building with it, to get it down to a similar lower MC before building.  avoid the big gaps.

[JD Guy]

I finished laying this second tier on March 21.

It was laid tight with absolutely no gap between the kiln dried pressure treated 2X6's.

I took this picture this morning which shows:

Between an eight to a quarter inch spacing between the boards.  I am pleased.

An odd thing that I found while handling the 2X6's was:

I noticed that this one had a plastic plug indicating that the treatment facility had taken a core sample.  I suppose that they were verifying the pressure treatment penetration depth.

The plug was wood colored and you can see where I scratched the surface.

Thanks for the pics, especially those of the boards you butted up during installation. I know what I'm going to do when I replace my deck now

Very nice by the way!

[Magicman]

or just standard lumber, kiln dried and then pressure treated

Yes, Dried and then placed into the chamber where a vacuum is pulled, immersed in the chemicals and then pressurized.  

This lumber came out of the treatment plant the morning before I picked it up that afternoon.  It was soaking dripping wet.  I picked the lumber up on March 13th and had it all laid by March 27th.  I know, I'm slow but there ain't but one of me.