Doesn’t look like the weather is going to co-operate today so I won’t be getting much work done so we packed up the kiddies and headed off to Home Depot to get some ideas.  I orginally planned to replace the decking, but after talking to the guy in the deck department he suggested re-finishing is probably going to be a better route unless the decking is rotted out (which is isn’t)

So the new plan is to add some wrap-around steps, put up railings around the areas that won’t have the steps attached and to re-finishing and re-stain the surface.  That’s probably going to save a few hundred bucks easily.  The current deck is just a simple 12 X 16 deck surround by weeds, weeds and more weeds so I drew up a simple plan of what the finished product will look like.

We’re going to use composite railing or aluminum railing that attaches right to the surface of the deck.  For starters it’ll be much easier to install and I think a black railing with the darker stain we plan to use plus the simple landscaping is going to look great together.

I had budgeted $1500 bucks for the whole project and so far the costs are looking to be about $700 – $900 and most of that expense is going to be the railing.  The deck cleaner and stain will be ~$100, the facing for the steps, skirt and stair stringers will be in the neighbourhood of $200 – 300 all totalled.

Last year when we planned to put in fences on either side of the house, we had them toss in a quote for re-building the deck and they quoted about $2800 for the deck alone so I’m saving quite a bit of cash.

If the weather co-operates today I should be able to dig out the area where the steps will be installed and to prepare the area for the garden which right now has a couple of patio stones and whack of weeds in the way.

I’m going to try and get an ariel shot from our bedroom with the before/after states as well, can’t wait to tackle the rest of this and finish it off!

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