Boards

The typical southern afternoon thunderstorms have kept me from finishing the staining touch up on the deck, but I did make a little progress after work today without opening a can or handling a brush. I borrowed a friend and his pickup truck to make a trip to BBHIW to buy the required boards I needed to replace the top boards of the railing.

Even though I have tried to stay ahead of the curve with staining, a few of the top boards of the railing do need replacing because of warping and cracking. Rather than replace just the couple of bad boards, I decided to replace them all with some of that newfangled recycled 2-liter soda bottle stuff. The composite decking is expensive, $20 for an 8′ piece, but it does come with a 20 year warranty.

There were 8 separate boards that need to be changed and it would have taken seven 8\’ sticks because the next two smallest boards I have after one 2′-9″ piece, are 4′-6″ and then there is another one that is 4-8″. I did manage to save a few bucks by buying 12′ boards because I could combine it down to 4 pieces.

We might have been able to deal with the 8′ pieces in the Miata, but 12′ would have been a little dicey, so we called for help.