Treat Exposed Lumber Cuts

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