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Install Picture Frame Perimeter Boards

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DIY How to build a Deck - Step by Step Guide to Composite decks pt2 of our "Idiot proof" series

What happens here

The deck is designed with a 'picture frame' border, where the outer boards follow the frame's perimeter, and the interior boards run in a different direction. Install these perimeter boards first, ensuring they overhang the substructure by 1.5 inches. This overhang allows for the later attachment of a fascia board, which will reduce the final overhang to a standard 0.75 inches, creating a finished look. Use an impact driver and appropriate screws (like GRK Fin/Trim Trim Head Screws) to secure these boards to the deck frame.

Goal: Create the 'picture frame' border of the deck with proper overhang for fascia.

Tools and materials

  • Composite Decking Boards MoistureShield — Building the picture frame border
  • Impact Driver Makita — Driving screws to secure the decking boards
  • Measuring Tape — Ensuring accurate overhang measurements
  • GRK Fin/Trim Trim Head Screws GRK — Securing the composite decking boards to the frame

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so this deck is gonna be picture framed meaning that the outside of the deck the boards will follow the framing of the deck material and the inside field will run differently and when you go to cut your own material this moisture shield just handles like a dream absolutely was so impressed with how well this cuts so now your picture framing this deck in yep so tell me a little bit about that if you don't mind well I guess we got face nailed our face screw these with your finishing nails the Trib males they call them but I'm gonna start at one end and I'm gonna work my way right around so I keep my joints tight then to keep my insert and I'm doing an inch and a half over inch and a half overhang why is that Frankie that face board will go on and that'll be they'll take up three quarters of an inch but we'll till when we're finally done we'll have only like a three or three quarters of an inch overhang which is always good okay so without tightness take stuff like that if you need to so what do you some about is this overhang right here the picture framing starts out at an inch and a half over but by the time you put your fascia board on that shrinks that up so that is a nice tight

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