WHAT"S NEW? ? ?

After we put down the ceramic tile in the utility room My Husband took out the small window and purchased a new door for that room. He then took out the old door and replaced it with the small window. Lots of work, I only had to help a little now and then with holding the door etc.

Here you can see the new installed door. This was when we had two doors next to each other for a couple of days.

You can see the small window has now been put in place and Monday Sep. 10th He started with the 6' by 16' deck. I did have to help with that. We originally wanted it 20' long but by cutting it down to 16' we could literally save hundreds of $$ since the 16' boards were greatly on sale!

Now this is some Maple flooring that was purchased several years ago. We have it in our family room and it surprisingly looks great. It came from a Gym floor. That wood from the Gym floor has since covered 5 floors, made 250 beautiful cross's for the LWML Convention, about 50 other cross's for Easter craft project for our Indian Mission at Porcupine and you guessed it, now we are using the left over wood to cover our new deck. After all, it is just laying around doing nothing right? It would also save us from having to purchase deck flooring. If you think the ceramic tile looked like a lot of work, just read on!

Each of the 88 6 foot long pieces had to be run through the planer about 5 times to get all the old stain and varnish off. A plane is a carpenter tool for shaving a wood surface to make it smooth or level.

This is the Craftsman planer that I gave to my Husband several years ago for Christmas. It certainly had done a lot of work and paid for itself time and time again. You can see how each individual board has to be fed through the planer. It is very loud so ear plugs are a must!

Here is a pile of hard wood that is about ready for the deck.

Saturday we started putting the maple flooring on the deck. We are using screws as you can tell.

This is as far as we got on Saturday. My Husband did most of this himself. I did help with the last few boards. Those long pipe like things are big clamps that work very nicely to fit the wood pieces tightly together.

This is another wood clamp that my Husband has used numerous times for numerous projects and it sure saved the day with fitting this flooring together. You can see from the edge how the groves fit.

Look at the nice job My Husband did fitting the flooring around the banister post. He is very handy and sure has done a lot with wood these last couple years.

We attended our Church this morning and then went to a 50th Anniversary of a Pastor being in the Ministry. It was late today when we got started on the deck but after 43 boards in place, we are at the halfway mark. We are hoping to finish tomorrow between our School Bus runs.

I really want to get it stained and oiled as soon as possible. We are expecting rain on Tuesday and we certainly don't want it to rain on our Maple deck before we can get it waterproofed!

I will update my blog once this project is finished!