Decking Day 1 - Pythagoras to the rescue
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Things got pretty busy at work leading up to me going on leave. So far, my holidays have been quite productive.
We have these rediculous trees in our courtyard which grow, and grow and grow and never let up. On Monday, I tore one of them out. That should send a string message to the rest of them. Yes, yes, I know, you shouldn’t cut down trees. Well this one was crap! It’s a non local tree so we were happy to be rid of it. Anyway, it would’ve intefered with our decking work! Teaching that thing a lesson took me the better part of the day (not being skilled in tree surgery department.) Eventually, we’ll replace the others with natives. For the moment, I’ll allow them to live a while longer.
Today we started preparing the ground for the new decking. After giving the overgrown lawn a haircut, we took a few good measurements and began constructing a few hurdles. They’re certainly no work of art themselves, but they do the job quite nicely. The hurdles are used to tie string lines to so you can begin lining everything up straight and to ensure you have nice right angled corners. Who ever said we wouldn’t use that pythagoras crap in the real world!
We then spent a little time measuring out where all the stumps would go. Tommorow we’ll be spending most of the day boring 20 odd 600mm deep holes into the ground. Here’s hoping Stanley doesn’t fall into one of them overnight! If we get some time, we’ll also put in the first few stumps. That’ll get things going quite nicely.
After that’s all done, a bit of relaxing and enjoying House in wonderful High Definition until the next day begins.