How I built our floor level timber decking
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Our decking project is finally complete! In this video I’ll show you how we built our decking and give you some tips if you’re ever tackling a project like this. We opted for a softwood timber deck for reasons I’ll explain on a later video. If you haven’t watched part 1 yet, this deck measures around 7m wide by 3.4m deep, so about 24m2. A quick reminder for the trolls, I don’t make sponsored videos but I love winding you up.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:15 - Fitting the deck joist tape
02:05 - How long does it take?
05:50 - Install timelapse
06:28 - British weather!
08:05 - Inset step detail
12:07 - Tomatoes
12:25 - Installing the last deck boards
15:31 - Building the step
20:40 - Trim and poor timber quality
24:24 - Finishing with decking oil
26:20 - Final reveal
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Download the plans I made for this deck and nerd out on loads of extra detail over on the Member Zone: members.gosforthhandyman.com/ 👍🌞
Was in B&Q last week and some guy asked if i wanted decking.
Luckily i got the first punch in...
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The lesson I learn from all of your videos is attention to detail. A beautiful job, as usual.
You should be really proud of this Andy, very few pros will ever go near that level of detail, unless you have endless money! Top job 👌
Bloody beautiful as always 🙌🏼
Turned out just beatiful! Lovely space for a nice cup of tea.
👍👍👍 Looking forward to the coming videos. Thanks Andy
Grand job done there Andy👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
So much care and attention to detail. Fantastic job 🌞
Thanks so much Ray! 😎
Great video. Our deck was built before we bought house. It was slippery when wet, but pressure wash each year and No Nails deck oil applied and it’s non slippery and lasting - we have now been here 8 years. Annual maintenance is I believe the key. Especially with such a fab build ……
I am so grateful for you there is a number of reasons why I watch your videos first of your content is well put together from the years I Been watching second I like you as a individual your inspirational and my dad is from your neck of the woods he was a handyman like what I am but he was more on the building side of it all
I been asked to look at a deck that needs some tlc and I am glad I watched your videos on decking I have picked up some tricks and tips
For any project that will come up in the future thank you so much
Please do keep up the fantastic work you do
Well done Andy! I really love your videos, your attention to all the details is really valuable!
Thank you - glad you enjoy them!
Fab job Andy
Cheers!
Great job and very thorough Andy, well done
Cheers!
Really detailed and informative. Thanks!
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Hi Andy that’s looks absolutely beautiful , and so in keeping with the rest of the build . Your final remarks regarding the continual maintenance is so important , many people have fallen out of love with decking because it can lose its look over time. And even become a green slippery mess , but it doesn’t have to be that way . Thank again for yet another inspiring video 👍
Cheers and you're exactly right! Bit of yearly maintenance and it can last for a long time. 👍
Well done! Such patience and attention to detail. That is easily the best in the world. Can’t see any contractor going to those lengths (pardon the pun). I did a small area a long time ago and used one of the matrix kits on top of gravel with hand rails to my credit. I found that demanding enough. It lasted 10 years so I can’t complain. If I make it to 80 I’ll watch your inspection video then 🙂.
Andy that garden looks unreal, I can’t get my head around how you’ve managed to turn it from what it was to what it is. I salute you 👍🏼
Thank you! It's getting there, although a bit damp this year! 😂
@@GosforthHandyman mate honestly, I’m just down the road from you in Durham and it’s woeful isn’t it, can’t even wash the bloody car 🤦🏼
Oh what a pleasure for my eyes! Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you!!
That is so nice. Looks close to perfection to me. We lived in a house where we could open the door and walk straight onto the deck. We loved it. You will love yours as well, for many years.
Cheers - makes such a difference and the cats love it! 😍
looks mint
Great job Andy....deck envy!!
Cheers! 👍
looks awsome
Cheers!
With your attention to the details your decking looks fantastic and fits your new extension really well. Nice to see the decking boards the right way up too!😂 Thanks for the video. Cheers.
Thank you! Hopefully easier to maintain this way too! 👍
Very nice job mate be proud of your self 🏆🏆🏆
Thank you!
Nice job 👍🏼
Thank you!
Hi Andy, good job on the decking, a shame the weather turned against you towards the end and continuous rain for days, you got the job done and it looks great. nice finish with the decking oil just looks amazing. Your tomatoes, veg and plants are looking good in the green house. Now the hard work is done, just sit back ans enjoy your fruits of your labour with a nice cold drink. As always a great video catch you soon Take care
Thank you - that was a week or so ago too - the tomato plants are nearly at the roof! 😬😂
Andy that’s a really nice decking you have installed. I was sharing the pain on getting the boards aligned - I have OCD too when it comes to this sort of stuff. But when you are working with natural materials you know it is going to move but you cannot stop obsessing.😀👍🤣
Love Your Videos thankyou. Thanks to You I can build a bathroom for my Mum.
That's awesome - thank you! 😎
Nice job Andy. All the best from Australia.
Cheers and greetings to Australia! 🦘😎
Looks awesome. I remember when that area was a mud bath.
Me too - so nice not to fall out the back of the house any more!
Thanks Andy, that looks great, I appreciate your attention to detail, I'd be the same as any inconsistencies would bug me every time I looked at it ! Looking forward to the ancillary videos, perhaps you could also add one "simple wood-working projects from deck-board off-cuts" ?
Somebody from the road leading to ours had a deck laid about 20 years ago and they had a great pile of off-cuts to be chucked away so your's truly asked permission then took my wheelbarrow and filled it twice, it makes me smile as the deck was ripped out and replaced about 10 years ago and I'm still using up the off-cuts today ! 😉
Ha that's awesome! I do have a LOT of very short off-cuts. Yet to come up with a project for them. 👍
@@GosforthHandymanmy vote is planters :)
Great job Andy 👌, my deck has been down 20 years now, still good & I didn’t use any of that fancy tape, probably didn’t exist back then 😂 so yours should be ok I reckon 👍😄.
Actually! Tha IS the best deck in the world! - I'll be signing up
Thank you for the videos I'm definitely looking forward to doing my own decking you made it look so much simpler than I was expecting we had decking down when I first moved in to my house but had to rip it up as my wife and kids walked on it and went through it luckily it wasn't high hoping to have decking with a pergola but looking forward to the challenge
Fantastic stuff - best of luck with your project!
I used pvc DPC roll for the top of the joists stapled down. The deck was there for twenty odd years and the joists were still solid. If we didn't have to pull it all up because of a bamboo infestation it would still be there now. 'er indoors wanted a redesign with a couple of large raised planting boxes in oak and as I'm now over seventy we decided it was prudent to get someone in. 😁
That's really interesting to know! I've certainly seen decks with zero joist or timber treatment that have lasted 20+ years. Hope you got the bamboo sorted! 😬
Same, and it's about 5 quid for a massive long roll, wide enough for the water to bead off too
Hi Andy, Looks great. Watch out in the winter when it’s icy. My mother has a similar set up and in the cold weather it is very hazardous.
Thank you!
Looks great Andy 👍
Looking forward to the obligatory pergola and hot tub 🤣
Ha ha - perhaps a pizza oven! 😉
@@GosforthHandyman Even better!!
Outrageous. You have fitted the deck boards the correct way up!
Ha ha of course! 😂👍
What an awesome deck you made there. Your attention to detail is equal to mine. Your skill is far above mine. Well done!
Thank you!!
I'm sure, like me, you reviewed many ways of protecting your joists. I used this tape a couple of years ago. I had to rebuild my deck around my hot tub, 😮which lasted 16 years. The joists were rotting from the top, probably from where moisture could get to. Anyway, I made the decision to use this tape. It was quick and easy to lay along the top of the joists. I also used it to seal all the end grain of my noggins, too. It was expensive, but I feel I made the right decision from the various other methods I reviewed. I used 3 rolls. I used composite boards to top my decking. I'm only a diy-er
Hi Andy, albeit from Birmingham, I live in Sweden and decking is unbelievably popular and very common over here. Much more than say brick patios. I don’t know anyone who uses this tape you have used on the joints and we have long winters with huge amounts of snow during this period, not to mention loads of rain as well. Almost as bad as Blighty 😂. As long as the wood is fully treated (impregnated) from factory and reasonably maintained over the years, it will not rot and last for many, many years. Sorry Andy but based on years of experience and much harsher weather, you have in all honesty spent £60 odd quid on something you didn’t really need. Albeit done a nice job. 👍👍 By the way Thompson weather seal does a great job of protecting the decking boards and stopping any algae and moss forming. 👍. Also no two boards are identical, so trying to get every board to line us to the mm is definitely a bad case of OCD mate. 😂🤯
Ha cheers! I suspect the timber is much higher quality and better treated over there. 👍
I wouldn’t bank on that Andy. To be honest getting good wood here and especially quality sheet material is a nightmare and bloody expensive. 🤯😩. But love how you did the decking and always nice regardless to see a person take pride in their work. Definitely better than most contractors for sure. 👍👍
Looks great!
Cheers!
Nice work mate. When I did mine, the boards were still green and absolutely saturated, so I decided to butt them up with no gap. I figured they can't expand anymore. Now I have a pretty big gap in summer and next to none in winter. This annoys me with timber decking. Sometimes I see people with 10+ mm gaps.
Fantastic work! One quick comment, I've watched many videos similar to this and they tend to always use wider deck tape. Also, a perimeter board tends to look better, for the cornes they meet at 45 degree angle so it's seemless. Other then that, looks great!
Cheers! I debated going for a wider tape but wanted to try this DeckTape Pro stuff and it only comes in 50mm. 👍
Very professional job.
Can you educate screws . Different place different screws in this job . Appreciate
I’d have set the step boards at 90° to the main deck. Helps with the visual perception of a step too, especially for the elderly. Just a personal thing.
Great video as usual.
Could do! Cheers!
I was thinking the same, th eamount of time to get them all perfectly in line, I'd have given up and put them in at 90 degrees so it wouldn't matter.
wow the disappearing mrs mack at the end was a cool trick
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Stunning attention to preserving the life of this deck.
Take care laying timber boards one after the other though.
Most of the time the boards are swollen in the middle more than the ends so if you pull them to a 5mm spacer each time you'll start bowing every board.
Its good practice to mark out every forth or fifth board to a line then infilling each section.
This looks great though top job 👌
Yeah, checked every few boards and used different spacers to suit. 👍👍
Fantastic job, well executed, nicely filmed. Personally I preferred the building without the decking, but its not my house!
Thank you!!
Andy - just get a 4x4 pop up gazebo and you can work away in the rain and keep us entertained!
Hi Andy. This is a different brand name tape than what I use, but I'm pretty sure it's the same (vulcanised tape). Don't worry about that tape sticking. I would rather wish you good luck trying to ever getting that tape off again.
I always left an overhang on the deck boards. About 1" or so, just to help keep weather off the framing (like a roof overhang and give it a trim look.
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Lovely installation and workmanship! Can I ask where you got the deck boards from? And what they were called? and size if possible? Thank you!
Hi good evening i am very impressed with your Deck build its beautiful however it missing a veranda to protect it from rain and other natural elements
Aah Andy. I was full sure you said ‘insect step’ not ‘inset step’ in the last video. I even paused the video and googled ‘insect step’ for 15 mins. I’m going building a deck so I was thinking if Andy put in an ‘insect step’ then I better too 😂😂
I'm honestly tempted to add one now! 😂
Nice Andy, inset step and all. My 2 penny’s worth mitres way to go, opening up or not 👍🏻
Cheers! I'd tend to agree on the mitres. 👍
This is the best deck in the country
Ha thank you!
You've done a great job mate, looks awsome for the occasional sunny day we get in the Newcasrte area. About the step, did you use the cut ends in the same order and orientation as you cut them off? As you know, planed wood has 'nominal' dimensions and depending on the wetness of the wood, each plank will be slightly different. Great Job!!!
Thank you and spot on with your other comment! No, foolishly I mixed them up when I picked up the step boards which is one of the reasons I had to spend so long mucking about with the spacers afterwards. 😂👍
Mr G try the product made here in the USA called prosoco!
I love your attention to detail. I think this is a case of an ‘amateur’ job being superior to a ‘professional’ one because you spend the extra time to be really thorough. I think the step would have been easier if you’d done it on the short side of the deck so that the boards ran longways.
Cheers! We may add one on the short side too. 👍
I like that you ran the wood out from the house not horizontally. Admittedly diagonal looks nice but presumably a mither to fit.
Cheers! Yeah, this was defo one of the requirements. 👍👍
One of the most common mistakes that I see people building decks is spacing the deck boards.
After a couple of years, there will be plenty of space opening up between those deck boards as they shrink, believe me.
I built my parents deck. My father and I pried each board tight against each other so there were no gaps between the boards. Three yaers later there were huge gaps between the boards, some as much as 3/4".
Defo! With this being on a shady north facing wide we want plenty gaps for airflow. 👍
We've bought decking from many places over the years and never been truly happy with the quality..
That rain is here to (northern schermany). Protects us from some brutal heat on the other hand...
We briefly had some sun... but it's gone now. 😭🌞
Great decking Andy and the right way down seen too many with grooves up. Are you doing a rail at the other end or surround? Flawless Cleaning are looking for help for an elderly couple to help fix their conservatory from collapse I thought of you maybe you can lend your skills? well done on the garden as well :)
Great work Andy, as we've come to expect. Using the plain side of the boards looks so much better than those silly ribs, that then gather all of the detritus. Did you return the defective boards? They were terrible.
Any thoughts about how slippery the deck may get?
Hi Andy great video as usual. The De Walt drill looked good . What one was it you got was it a twin pack 🙏🙏🙏
6:00 - I did not get the math: 6x50 = 150?
Yeah 300 mins is 5 hours. No wonder
Yeah I lost the plot. 😂
Why not use a DPM roll on the joists?
My personal theory is that during the summer everyone and their granny wants to build a deck. So the decking lumber gets produced on mass with close to no regards to the quality because there just isn't enough lumber available to treat and make decking boards of.
So you should probably try to build your deck early to mid spring so that there is enough quality lumber around.
Very possibly! Although this looked like it had been sitting in the builder's merchant for years! Some boards had tyre marks on. 😂🙄
50 x 6m == 300 minutes chief. Great video as ever nonetheless Andy.
Yeah lost it 😂😂
I've read conflicting opinions about whether to fit the boards with a gap or not. Some claim treated deck boards *always* shrink, others claim the gap is necessary. Hopefully you'll do an update in a year or two so we can see how it's holding up. Looks great now!
If the boards are fitted after a spell of dry, warm summer weather they probably won't shrink much further and I would fit them with very slightly less than the desired gap. However, if fitted damp, or in the winter I would fit them almost touching, as they will shrink a lot in the warmer weather.
What warmer weather?
I've gone for quite a big gap (5mm) - again mainly for airflow and easy water run-off between the boards. 👍
Mrs Mac magically disappeared in the background😂
She does that. 😂😉
How does this work if the deck goes above the house dpc?
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For a moment, I thought you said "Not enough Flowers in a day" :)
There's never enough flowers in the day! 🌸🌹😁
Seeing all those screws go in makes me think " thank f*** for cordless tools"
What's your opinion about the deck height... shouldn't it be 150mm below DPC?
awesome work Andy. A question on visitors getting under the decking, are you hoping the cats will take care of that?
If it was me I would have done a picture frame edge with the decking running left to right
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Oh man.. for the top surface, get a soft floor brush and a baking tray and put it on with that. Done in no time, even finish. Still looks good your way, just more brush strokes. It would still run down the edges, gives your knees a break
Nice watch! Ticwatch Pro 5? :D I have Pro 3 Ultra
Well spotted! Enduro 👍💪
Looks great. Could you give a rough indication as to how much you spent on the materials for the deck. Uk £. Cheers
Great job Andy why are the grooves on the decking facing the floor ,will the decking not be slippy when walking on the smooth boards when wet .
I was cheap and put gapha tape on mine.
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Would have layed them other way and a nice border round the outside and the same with the steps with a nice facia
It's all about 'leading lines', makes the deck appear longer as the paralel lines go off into the obviously short distance, inline with the long garden. Especially when you have to sit inside looking out at the North East rain....
@Bokooda hit the nail on the head. It's about matching the lines of the internal flooring all the way out in to the garden. Kinda infinity decking... but that sounds pretentious. 😁
Plain looking just saying
Sorry for the dumb question but when you use the plunge saw how does the track stay in place? Do you fasten it down with a couple screws?
There's a bit of foam stuff on the bottom of the track and it's REALLY grippy (as long as the surface isn't dusty). If you're on a surface where it feels like it might move you can clamp it but it's amazing how well that foam stuff works. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman thanks so much!
I was wondering this aswell,so thanks for the question and thanks for the answer.
That decking tape looks like thin Flashband - would that do the same job?
Possibly! It feels more like gaffa tape tbh! 🤷♂️
Beautiful deck! What's the plan for recovering items from below the deck? Any cards can easily slip through e.g. driving license or a credit card of your guest who came over for a bbq. Cheers!
Can just whip a board up worst cast - couple of mins. 👍👍
Hi Andy 👋🏻 trying to understand how it works when it rains. I know you'll have it sorted, but how does it work with the damp proof course when the deck butts up to the render? Is there a gap between them? Thanks 🪚👍🏻
Why flat top to the side?
Does it not make a wet deck even slippier?
No deck railings?
Only 290mm high so not really needed.
For the screws to be aligned with the underside grooves. Did you screw so they come out in the groove? Or not in the groove? Thank you!
In the groove, so basically same position they would have been in if the boards were reversed. 👍
Andy I’m guessing you didn’t use composite decking because of how much it costs? Cracking job btw.
Cheers - a few different reasons but will cover on a separate vid. 👍
@@GosforthHandyman i can’t think of one advantage wood has over composite apart from price but I shall wait to watch your video. Cheers.
Colour fade & scratches are what concerns me about the composite I've just laid. What's your opinion about getting the level threshold? ...doesn't it have to be 150mm below DPC ?
The heat of composite on a hot sunny day is also another reason not to 🌡️
@@mgastra I think most now have a 10-25 year non colour fade guarantee fwiw but yeh maybe scratches could be a problem although I bet you can buy a paint pen to colour them in.
I'm pretty sure 50 x 6 isn't 150 , but maybe it will spur you on !!
13ish dodgy decking boards at that price each……can they be taken back and replaced??
@16:06 Hope your wife doesn't use that measuring bowl to make BBQ sauce!
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Have you put anything to prevent rats nesting under neath