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Install Shiplap Post Wraps

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How to Build a Simple Deck

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What happens here

Cedar shiplap boards are used to wrap the exposed structural posts, adding a decorative element and protecting the wood. The shiplap boards are cut to length and glued together to form a seamless wrap around each post. Wood glue is applied to the edges, and the boards are pressed together and secured with screws or nails.

Goal: Cedar shiplap boards are cut and glued around the structural posts to provide a decorative and weather-resistant finish.

Tools and materials

  • Cedar Shiplap Boards
  • Drill/Driver
  • Miter Saw
  • Wood Glue

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through [Music] so no matter how difficult and frustrating working on a six-year-old house could be there's some little bit of like a historical lesson you kind of learn so this piece of concrete right here this is the footing of the house right it's going along the entire way and these are the floor joist and the way they did it before is they would almost it looks like they would just pour the concrete around the floor joy so they would pour the footings and then P pour like an additional what looks like I don't know 8 in 10 in of concrete to secure them side to side I can't imagine ever having to replace one how much frustrating that would be but I guess that's what they did back in the day [Music] we got the deck wrapped into that little recess section looks phenomenal I'm so excited the fact that it actually all leveled across now this is going to be

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