Scary Cabin

Replacing the deck has been on the list since day one. It appeared to be pretty much original to the cabin and probably needed replacing about 10 years ago. Some of the structural components have failed from rot and there are couple of areas where the decking has failed resulting in holes. The railing is more decoration than function. A while back we submitted our deck replacement design to the architectural committee and got approval to replace it. We got as far as adding some new footings.

We finally pulled the trigger and ordered most of the material to build a new deck. That meant it was time to start tearing down the old deck. The plan is to start with the front deck.

It only took a couple of hours to tear down the front part of the deck. That filled up the trailing and it took just about as long to unload it at the dump. On the way back from the dump we picked up 26 bags of cement. We then spent the rest of the day mixing cement to create new pier blocks for the footings and a sidewalk leading to the crawlspace door.