Day 10 - Joist Being Silly

 


We're back. Our walls held. High-five! Our goal for the next two days is to get the deck on. It's really the makings of the first floor. I don't know why it is called the deck, but it is.


This is a boom truck. This guy delivers the lumber that we need for our deck.


He has a crazy-long arm, like the pump truck. Not as crazy-long though. We wanted him to heave the lumber over the wall and into the house, but he couldn't do it. Maybe next time.


This is our lumber. We have I-joists, rim joists (Don't quote me on that. I didn't ask about these things, the ones with the green on them), and Advantec. Advantec is that special plywood that we used for Tommy's deck a few weeks back, the tongue and groove stuff.


Joey and Steve are making the sills, getting silly.


The sills start with PT wrapped with ice and water shield. Steve drilled holes in the PT so that the anchor bolts that we set in the concrete can come up through the PT and be used to hold it in place.


Next is a piece of KD on top of the PT. There are partial holes drilled in the KD so that it can sit on top of the anchor bolts and stay flush with the PT.


The I-joists went on next, and now we have a base for our deck!


I-joists sit on top of the KD and are nailed down. They are also nailed to the rim joists (again, don't quote me) after all I-joists are in place. Tomorrow, Advantec!

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