Next Level Decking Design - Decking Inlay Prep and Install!

what's going on everybody welcome back to the Vlog in this video we're going to show you how we built this awesome decorators inlay we'll show you the framing the planning and the execution make sure you hit subscribe let's [Music] [Applause] go we're on to some of the fun stuff on this lower deck uh me and Aunt are going to start laying out for our inlay we've got a Diamond diagonal inlay going in on this lowest deck and it's going to be really cool but some math needs to go into that and make sure we execute it properly so that's what we're working on right now The A Team marking on our Center Good Start yep beautiful all right so that's our Center Mark all right beautiful good place to start I like I don't is that you think like if we do our inlay blocking and then that changes a little bit do you think the blocking will be messed up well no like but what you said yesterday with like the stairs where the stair do you want you want to make up that difference with the stairs you know like having this line like you were saying yesterday having this line you're measuring off the six byes right now to try to get the width of the deck that's not the width of the deck because that deck's hanging past the 65 yeah so I don't know what you're doing yeah I guess nothing really essentially we're dealing with uh a house and a pool that are not totally square and parallel with one another so what we're going to do we want this to appear perfect that's what we always want to do hide what's going to look the most obvious so with our inlay here if the stairs intersect that inlay in a weird way and not perfectly straight it's going to be noticeable so and came up with the idea we'll measure off of this to uh our our consistent point and then we'll pack out the front of this it's going to end up being about an inch and a half or so that we're going to have to pack this out at our smallest Point down there so we can do that later but this way the spot that you would see it you're not going to see it so you always got to think what's going to be the most noticeable and adjust accordingly so that's what we're going to do so we'll get a reference point off of here this is our biggest spot so we have that so we'll just need to Plum that line down measure that measure to this and and then do the same thing there and mimic that that sorry I was holding the flashlight for my dad go steady Cather yes you got to let you know when I'm intersecting that line what line the line you just made what where did oh okay are you good Sean y um over about right there perfect you want me to snap it you got it oh yeah you back up a little bit more too we're same h uh so we're going to have this uh bench seat built-in couch stairs and we're going to have like a minimal amount of deck showing so I'm thinking I want those cross sections like in the middle to be dead center so that's what we've got here 49 in off the edge is going to be our dead center of intersection but then I'm thinking we also want it to be centered off of the fire pit that's going this way you know what I mean sure so ran through a bunch of different numbers and it ends up being our squares instead of being 10t by 10 foot for our grid to snap on it's 1072 okay so that leaves us with our the end of our last grid being here so there's going to be like you know an intersection of our inlay right here at 49 kind of ends where it ends here but it brings us full all the way down to where the Ed edge of the inlay is same as it's going to intersect here I realized that might have been a little bit confusing so let me break it down for you we decided to make some slight adjustments to our inlay so that we have an intersection right between our stairs and our seat and we have an intersection right in front of the fire pit instead of our 10t x 10 ft grid we're making it a tiny bit smaller so that we hit all of those marks our next step is going to be snapping all of our lines to cut in our inlay blocking and and we need to find the outside of each square and then we can snap lines and that will give us our intersecting points to work off of [Music] [Applause] [Music] hi let me check I'll check for you dog uh it's unplugged [Music] That's What I Call locked in for justice yeah that's freaking awesome look at that it's locked in it's all one unit it's all one unit now all of that curving was all leading up to this so you can see check that out we've got it curved so nice so it just fits in there it just fits in there super nice super flush love that and this is stabilizing it so much this is going to be like the strongest deck frame probably in the whole world I mean it's a stretch but maybe this County at least this municipality yeah this burrow so I'm going around ahead of them and I just want to take a little bit of extra precaution with all of these curvs so we're taking out an inch and a half of material out of the top of each joist this is pressure treated rated for ground contact but we want to seal all of these internal Cuts especially because it's going to be low to the ground we're going to do flashing tape over the entire 2x8 so that'll all be covered this is just a little bit of an extra step I wanted to take and just filled up a little squirt bottle with some stain and it's actually working out really well so just spraying it down a little bit and then I can come back with a brush brush it all in and it's just going to seal it up give a little bit of extra protection so we know this thing is going to be here for a long time [Music] hey Sean do you want to talk about why sometimes you recess the blocking and sometimes you just cut in pieces well that's actually a really good question so sometimes we will cut in pieces in between which is a lot more I don't know if it's a lot more work but I prefer this way it works great here because we don't need a thickness of joist for spans and bearing capacity it's all sitting on the ground where if we were doing this elevated and we were going to use 2x10 we would have to then go up to 2x 12 to be able to cut out an inch and a half of material and sometimes in that scenario it just doesn't make sense too cumbersome to deal with 2 by 12s for every single joist and then curf them out so ideally I like to do it like this but we've done it both ways this is going to lock everything in so tight so much for justice this is going to be locked in and it's just solid it's solid has a rock Like a Rock Like a Rock but it's it's it's starting to come together very happy with it what's that it's starting to come together it always is only about 1,500 more times say that until uh it really does start coming [Music] together so you can see by notching this out curing it it's a lot of work but we now have a perfectly smooth consistent surface for our inlay and I like doing it this way too because it has a solid piece for everything that dies on the inlay so it's going to want to stay together uh the only places that we have to add blocking are at the ends here where it terminates this is going to be uh just far enough to catch our border and at the edges here where it runs into the side of our blocking for the exterior border so just a little bit of blocking needed so we also need it where these intersect so you can see this one is running straight through so we need a little bit of blocking here to catch this piece and there to catch that piece and it is looking freaking awesome I'm glad we picked up on this layout kind of issue where we're going to have this intersection perfectly lined up with our fire pit and will also have this intersection perfectly in the middle of our stairs fire pit and bench that's coming out here so it's going to be a little detail that's going to look awesome super pumped about this what are you guys working on now uh putting a beier board on here so that when we attach the steps it has something to screw into pretty solid and not directly into the retaining wall beautiful which I think is a no uh here we kind of want everything to be locked together but this way you know I think the the main objective was having this 2x 12 extend past down or 2x8 so that it's all laying on the same board and we do have a slight kind of back pitch to our retaining wall so we don't want to use that as our attachment for the stairs we want them to attach nice and Plum so that's why we're uh using this cuz we're going to have that s and 3/4 drop and then we'll have about uh I don't know 4 in or so 3 and 1/2 to attach our back plate of our stair riser it's going to be cool a lot of steps and what's your advice for that dealing with a lot of steps make sure you lift your feet up when you go up them that's good and one step at a time ah yeah it's obvious take it one step at a time unless you got really long legs then you could take it like three that's true yeah but I wouldn't do that in life only just steps it's good advice life advice with Nick tuck your shirts in [Music] how do you think we're looking on planing this what does that mean like do you think we need the plane yeah okay all right do we want to do we want to jump on that I think we should probably get the uh the tape on today before it snows I mean listen I if you want to do it have at it yeah my whole thing is we need to make sure we have a plane for electric yep and a plan for like the lighting cuz we're not going to have access over here where like if you're trying to get this Deck Down good point like we got to have a plan for that great Point great Point Hope have a plan for that we do a little bit uh John's coming on Tuesday to run rough like run like like the little starter wire yeah okay all right so maybe we won't jump on that right now yeah I'm not too like yeah I don't mind jump and like I know like off of here like we can leave like the you know 15 in of space yeah because like the steps are going to cover it yeah yeah again our low voltage there shouldn't be a problem we don't have over here all right I don't know how long are the leads on those lights they're long enough to get through there like 14 in yeah I'll I'll double check all right well yeah it's something to consider okay all right good work [Music] all our framing is done and now we're just applying a layer of black stain on top of the joist just so in between any boards you won't see that poking through it just kind of masks it uh you can do flashing tape on top of each joist I don't find that super necessary uh it's a it's a good step if you want to take it just a little extra insurance but we don't typically see any rot on single joist like this it's only on the bigger flat spots where water can actually sit so uh we're just staining those to cover them up so they disappear underneath our decking gaps and we can jump into laying our field boards this one's going to be I don't want to say really complicated but it's going to be complicated enough to make sure we get the look that we're going for and everything works out so we're ready to get going on that so I'm just marking out right now for where our first field board starts and we have have a 7 and 1/4 in outside border then we'll have a 3/16 Gap 3 and 1/2 3/16 Gap and then our line so just marking out each one of those counting for our overhang so we got 3 and 1/2 + 316 and 3/16 which is 38 so right here okay so we're coming in 9 in and this right here is going to be our Mark so I've got my Mark here for where we're going to start and this this whole area this whole uh portion of the deck is kind of intentionally built out of square because the pool and the house are not in line with each other and parallel so we had to kind of pick where we were going to make up that difference and what we're going to do is measure off of this deck and make sure that our line runs consistent with that and then we're going to pack out the front of this to make up that difference so we'll get to that later but we need to make sure that our line is the same distance on this side as it is over [Music] there make sure I'm getting right on [Music] that we've now got our line to start we'll be good it's going to be a little confusing with how we're going to run these boards but you'll see it come together soon enough all right we'll start running these 20s run right up the back of this uh no we're going to actually start uh oh yeah yeah yeah yeah right here we're going to follow this this line so we'll uh yeah yeah let's just we'll get a couple back here we'll start laying them out and then we'll uh we'll go from there because this lower deck is wider than 20 ft we're going to need to incorporate some seams with our field boards we decided the best way to go about this is install our 20ft deck boards along that first angle of our inlay that way we can step the decking as we go across that angle and we're going to pick it up on the other side and on the two ends we can put in scraps and everything will be covered by our cuts that we make for our black inlay so yeah my first cut I'm going to do the 3 and 1/2 cut on this side of the 3 and 1/2 for finished which will allow this all to be open and we'll just hand cut everything cuz I have a track a track we'll butt them tight then I'll measure off my cut three to half and then that'll be sweet batter Char cool I'd say if anything just cuz it is so cold I mean we know decorators is not going to expand and contract a lot but we won't run everything dead tight we'll leave maybe like 16 yeah sounds good um I I want to get it too close Okay I want to get a cool clip of him doing this oh hell yeah yeah but this one I feel like it's going to be cool cuz it's like open you know and then you can I you see the whole crosssection of what's happening and you can see that you're not like cutting the tape or whatever you know that morning cut so here's the edge of our blocking that's running on a diagonal and we're really really precise and deliberate with where we put this so we can measure off of this we have factored in 1 in for our field boards to catch our blocking that is going to be our first cut and then we'll have a 3 and 1/2 in dark slate board here and that should leave us with 1 in on the other side to catch up to pick up these field boards over here so snap this line cut the first one and uh go from there all right you want snap ready to snap brother I got to film or else I'd help match G [Music] that I'm back filling all of these dark slate pieces and all I'm doing is getting a scrap checking this angle you never know if it's going to be exactly 45° um this one happens to work out just perfect but we want to test that with a scrap make sure that's going to look nice this side we're sliding underneath the stairs so that doesn't matter too much and boom looks really good check this out a lot of times with decorators it's this sh Stone technology does it look weird how I'm Crouch over maybe get a little lower so you can see what see I can see it can you see the gapping that's what I want to talk about I want to just show you this gapping here so uh normally we'll install this really tight this is obviously decorators Shore Stone technology mineral based expansion and contraction is super minimal but we just want to leave a tiny bit of room right now because it's really cold out so this is the smallest that they're possibly going to be most of the time especially when it's hot out we're going to install it super tight and we don't really see any movement we're not expecting a whole lot of movement here either but we just want to give it just that that tiny bit of breathing room nothing major we've got like probably uh little less than an eighth uh of a gap on each side that's going to be perfect and we're good to go well that's it for our inlay hope you enjoyed that if you're going to try it on your own good luck in our next video we're going to show you how we built this awesome built-in bench we've got custom cushions for it we've got a fire pit area with a built-in planner over here it's going to be awesome so make sure you hit subscribe stay tuned and until next time this has been Premiere Outdoor Living he what say something huh say something like and subsscribe