2014-05-17 Deck Day-3 -- Floor Joists

After Mike Thigpen Construction was finished replacing the rotted sill I could finish installing the joists close to the house.  In the pic below, you can see about half of them were installed.


I temporarily laid down some old plywood and set blocks by the deck so we could get in and out of the house.


Here are more temporary block steps.  In the space between joists, I stacked 4" X 4"s.  I had to put them someplace and doing this seemed practical.


From this angle you can see what a sizable gap I had between the deck and the pool
That's where the deck's upper level goes.  You can also see my grandson's cat in this picture.


The deck wasn't the only project we had going.  We also got Mike Thigpen's crew to wire my 2nd storage building which has never had electricity.


Here's another view of the wide gap between pool and deck where the 2nd deck level goes.


Backing away, you can see from this shot how the 20' X 24' deck is all on one end of the house.  From the house to the closest (center) point of the pool is actually 24 ft. 6 inches.  From the house to the farthest point of the pool that touches the deck is 28 feet.


In various emails, I've mentioned the "Polaris."  Here it is, the magical little water-propelled pool cleaning robot.


Here's the Polaris all stretched out.   The line closest to the camera is how the Polaris receives water from the pump.  The Polaris is laying belly up.  The 2nd line coming from the bottom of it is attached to a net bag which you can see in the picture as a white object at the end.  This hose blows a jet of water over the pool bottom which stirs up trash that's then caught by the net.



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