Speaking of decks, I'd like to tell you of another project related to it. As mentioned previously the deck was one of my first priorities as it was the first one I had ever owned or lived with...? I feel like to say it was in a state of disrepair may be a little dramatic but I'll just say it hadn't looked like it had been maintained for minimum 5 years. It was majorly splintered, the stain was obviously coming off and many of the floor boards were loose. I knew I had to spruce this baby up so I
did some research and looked for the first long weekend available to tackle
this project. I bought the house in late March/early April so I planned for
Memorial Day.
Let me tell you, I am so happy we did it on a 3-dayer. Remeber me talkign about how happy I was that this thing was so big? I cursed myself for feeling excited about that in the middle of this project. As I had mentioned I'm pretty sure this thing hadn't been touched for minimum 5 years. Therefore, every inch needed to be sanded. It. Took. For... Ever. At one point our poor next door neighbors were having a Memorial Day cookout and invited us over. We are positive that was done in order to get a break from the sanding for a few minutes.
We spent countless hours in the sweltering heat sanding and sanding. Some of you may be wondering what took us so long. We had rented a floor sander to make the main floor part easy. But it was the railing. All of those rails. Those flipping rails. I'm pretty sure most people don't waste their time with them but I wanted it all sanded! After days we ended up getting the worst part finished (sanding) and moved onto painting. We made a little bit of a mistake in that we purchased color that was a little more red than we had intended but 3 or 4 years later it has grown on me a little. We ended up painting the majority of the deck that weekend but had to touch it up a few days later that week.
I can't seem to find an after photo immediately after finishing it soa photo of it today will have to do! (See the before photo in the previous post).
Let me tell you, I am so happy we did it on a 3-dayer. Remeber me talkign about how happy I was that this thing was so big? I cursed myself for feeling excited about that in the middle of this project. As I had mentioned I'm pretty sure this thing hadn't been touched for minimum 5 years. Therefore, every inch needed to be sanded. It. Took. For... Ever. At one point our poor next door neighbors were having a Memorial Day cookout and invited us over. We are positive that was done in order to get a break from the sanding for a few minutes.
We spent countless hours in the sweltering heat sanding and sanding. Some of you may be wondering what took us so long. We had rented a floor sander to make the main floor part easy. But it was the railing. All of those rails. Those flipping rails. I'm pretty sure most people don't waste their time with them but I wanted it all sanded! After days we ended up getting the worst part finished (sanding) and moved onto painting. We made a little bit of a mistake in that we purchased color that was a little more red than we had intended but 3 or 4 years later it has grown on me a little. We ended up painting the majority of the deck that weekend but had to touch it up a few days later that week.
I can't seem to find an after photo immediately after finishing it soa photo of it today will have to do! (See the before photo in the previous post).
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