New Deck, Fence and Trim - Phase One

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Phase One --- Had a large selection of those scratchy type of evergreen bushes taking over the front of my house. They were planted 30 years ago and were terrible looking, most were eight to ten feet tall. After taking four large trailer loads to the landfill, I was left with the biggest selection of trash and other crap that ended up under them over the years. The space was 12 X 30 feet in size. Decided to put up a fence four feet out from the house for a work way and build a small deck for my wife. I used the better grade of cedar fencing, a lot of 8-foot 4X4 posts and a lot of 2X4s for the fence. All posts and 2X wood were the treated type. The deck was made with 2X8s with all kinds of bracing under it. The top was the plastic that looked like wood. I then realized the original deck looked like crap now, so went ahead and put new trim around it also. Everything was then sprayed heavily with a wood sealer, it will eventually darken to match the deck. I used around 15 lbs. of weatherproof screws of different sizes. I will now build planters and other things to border and fill in the open space. I will also have to plant grass in the area outside the given area to cover where the bushes killed it out. My wife has all kind of ideas for this area, lucky me. She will also be putting, (meaning me), various things on the fence. We have decided this will be my last large project I will do, am getting too old and my body with the new hip doesn't recover as quick anymore. The last picture is what it looked like right after taking the bushes out. I never thought of taking a picture with the bushes still there.   Mel

Switch over project.

Great job on the deck and the fence, a nice little space you have there. Have you finished that "Honey Dew List" around the deck and on the fence now. You mentioned it was a transfer. 

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Eric - My next project post, shortly.
Ok, Jumped the gun.

Transfers seem to take a bit. I am still working on mine. Then finding the photo's to attach.

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I just go to the " other post ", enlarge the pictures and save as - goes into my computer pictures for browsing and pick them. Enlarge them first before saving or they will be very grainy on the new post. I then just copy the old stuff and paste it to the new post. I just learned this a couple projects ago, and believe me, if I can do it anyone can.
Something good will come out of it , I'm sure...

...woodicted

The grainy photos is what got me, so I just copy the text into a word document on the PC, then paste from there. I started writing my post in Word, then copy to the post.

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