Good morning. So, another day.
Yesterday, you can see they did
a lot of progress, had some
help yesterday.
It was quite good to be two
people to set up, two or three
people to set up the decking
ball.
Sometimes you have to push it
quite hard to have the 4mm
space between each deck.
Using a kind of plastic spacer
helped me, but still have to
push it because some boards are
a bit bended.
But quite happy with the result
, that straight line.
And then screw that on every jo
ist, you can see the line of
screw every time.
With half way past half way to
the deck, here is a bit of a
custom cut.
And I guess it's good, it's
looking good for me.
Today I'm alone, I'm not going
to keep going on the decking, I
'm going to wait tomorrow, I may
have some help to do that.
But today I'm going to set up
some beginning the handrail.
This board is certified by Nike
, that would be the main
structure of the handrail.
I put three boards like that on
every handrail pieces.
One at the bottom, that sense,
one at the top, like that, and
then the cap would be like that
at the very top.
So I'm going to start probably
by the row next to the stairs.
And if I got some time I'll
clearly do the stairs part.
For the stairs I did both.
Those pre-made stairs for posts
, you got the right angle.
And I'm going to just bolt it
to the stairs and then apply
the same thing, put the hand
rail the same way.
And to close out the handrail
there will be some ballies
there, but we'll discuss about
that later, and we'll talk
about later how we're going to
put the ballies there.
This handrail is a bit of an
experiment again, I think it's
a simple model that I find on
the internet.
And before doing that I need to
do the cut to all those posts.
So I did yesterday, I measured
them, I'm going to show you
what tool I'm using to measure
them exactly.
Here it is, it's a laser level.
I used it already to actually
do the level of the decking
floor.
And now I might as well decide
to use it to do the level of
the posts.
So it's kind of a low power one
, so during a daylight like that
you can't see anything.
But yesterday at night I took
it out, put it on so it would
display a perfectly horizontal
red line all around at 180°.
Then I mark the pencil where
was this line on each post.
I choose one meter, I mark at
one meter the pencil.
And my deck being already quite
flat, quite horizontal, this
one letter actually matches for
all the posts.
It's the same one meter, plus
or minus 5mm, quite happy, it's
good.
And then I will cut those, that
's going to allow me to cut
these posts exactly one meter.
And the cap, this is what I was
talking before.
I will put one board like that
in the horizontal on the top of
every post, and that will be
the cap of the handrail.
So this is 30mm high, so
totally the handrail will be 1
meter and 30mm, which put me in
a proper handrail for this kind
of deck.
So yeah, now it's a stressing
part, I will cut, make sure I
will double check I got the
right height again and cut at
one meter.
And that's it.
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