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Demolish Existing Wooden Railings

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From Trash to Class: Dream deck makeover.

What happens here

Begin by assessing the existing wooden deck and its railings. The deck is made of green-treated wood, estimated to be less than 10 years old, and is heavily weathered due to exposure to rain and lack of sun in a corner location. Start the demolition of the old wooden spindle railings by using a long demolition tool, specifically a pry bar (also known as a wrecking bar), to leverage and pull apart the existing railing sections from the deck posts and structure. Continue this process around the perimeter of the deck where the railings are being replaced, carefully detaching each section.

Goal: Remove all old wooden spindle railings from the deck structure.

Tools and materials

  • Demolition Tool — Prying apart and removing old wooden railing sections
  • Old Wooden Spindle Railings — The existing railings to be removed

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All right, guys. We're cracking open another project. It's time to crack open another one. Frankie Frankie's already started. We don't like to wait. He can't wait for a camera. Nope. When I don't ever ask him to wait. I just say go. Yeah. I don't even say anything. He just goes. Okay. So, we've got a deck and it is definitely It's a green treated deck. And how old is this deck, Frankie? Would you say less than 10 years? >> I would imagine. >> Yeah. Somewhere in that neck of the woods, right? >> Yeah. >> And uh it's just a it's a in a weird corner of the house, so it's gets a ton of rain, gets doesn't get a lot of sun. It's just ab used and abused pretty much. And so we're going to be stripping it off and giving it uh an update, a facelift, and uh taking you guys along for the ride. Frankie's got no mercy on that wood. My shoes broke off. You know, they're stripped out and broke off and got to get out somehow. >> The goal is to refinish this deck without destroying the deck, but still to give it a fresh new look. It had the old wooden spindles that you see on so many decks and that needs to be updated. And we're also going to update the handrail itself. But otherwise, the bones of this deck are going to stay the same and we're going to clean it up and give it a facelift. So, let's just take you along for the ride on this one. [Music] We decided to shorten the handrail from inside of the house. It was always difficult to see through the handrailing and it just looked like you were looking through prison bars. So, it needed to be upgraded. One of the options we decided to do was just take the handrailing down a little bit. [Music]

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