Start-to-Finish 3 day DIY Floating deck - BIG REVEAL!

all right guys if you're just tuning in here's what you've missed so far we had an old deck we stripped it down but we saved the framing then we reframed the deck and then we started to put the new decking material on to the both the old deck and the new deck today we're going to wrap this project up we're going to complete the decking we're going to put in the new staircase we're going to put in the handrails and wrap this entire thing up so let's just get right into it as we lay out the decking we let the tail ends overhang the framework at the very end of the job we'll snap a string line and we'll cut all of those at once that'll give us one consistent line down the entire length of the deck now the decking goes down fast but the screwing off takes a long time but before we can even get to that we've got some detail work that we've got to address hit the gap we don't want screw holes going every which way but loose so we snap a string line to keep everything in a straight [Music] line this moisture shield does offer a hidden clipping system but we're not using all one board in fact this entire deck is built up of scraps from different projects that we've accomplished in the past and so we're just face screwing everything and then there's a little trick that we can show you how you can cover that up if you don't like the way it looks so this is the cool little trick to make your deck screws disappear but you've got to use a heat gun and not a torch i tried a torch and trust me it doesn't work but we've still got a few specialty cuts we've got to make before we can finish up the top deck down we got to rip down the board to put matt go on the end so we gotta rip one down over here frankie to get this little sliver what's our overhang plus yeah we're gonna put an eyelash on it or whatever and that'll even everything out so let's do that next to cut the piece we need means we also need a table saw skill sponsored this video and supplied us with the tools we needed to complete the product big thanks goes out to those guys we're going to use one board but rip it into multiple pieces to get that little trim edge we need [Music] do you need the guard on no i don't i don't use it at all let's leave it off just yeah we should use it but this is the way we work so let's just work that way by being careful with our cuts we're able to make two pieces out of the same board we don't want the board to go flush with the framing we actually want it to overhang but we've still got another trim piece to add so we compensate the measurement to allow for enough of that and still leave an overhang my experience using this moisture shield is that it's definitely different than using wood but there is a reason why i prefer it and let me just show you what that is yeah they don't it doesn't rot right it just does not it doesn't make a difference what you do where you like let's look at it come here look at this stuff look at it this is the let's it's been buried in that for two years look at that it's freaking amazing but it's heavy so although it'll never rot on you it is this stuff is also cool to your feet so you guys know because you can get the cool tech whatever cool touch because sometimes it gets hot uh and it's also heavy and flexible so so there's some good stuff to it and some bad stuff to it you might as well know about it so this doesn't give us anything to screw to some of the old deck framing doesn't give us enough meat to screw into so we scab on pieces where needed to save time frankie and i divide and conquer i focus on getting the rest of the deck screwed off that's what she said and he works on the steps so let's just dive into the steps and see how frankie is working hey frankie can i ask you a question some of the guys may be asking about the stairs yeah um i noticed you did not use joyce hangers on the stairs you you uh screwed it in on the back side yeah is that because you think that that's stronger or why did you do that and not use trace hangers hangers you can't you got to get special joist hangers and we didn't have them because of the angle okay the joist hangers come straight out okay from the bottom and i i guess i've always i've never have i've always used i've always screwed them back now i got a six inch screw in every one so it's there's three inches of screw inside going inside here it's three inches and another three inches okay so that's what you use a quarter inch by six and three in each stair trigger yep okay [Music] when this same deck was wood these stairs were supported by just three stair stringers but because we're switching it over to moisture shield we've got to add two more stair stringers to make sure that we don't get a spongy feel below our feet stairs are done raced up propped up ready to go posts are next we start with an eight foot four by four timber and our goal is to make two posts out of that and in just a moment i'm going to explain what all of these measurements mean okay so here's the process we go 48 inches from the top down on this side and 48 inches from the top down on this side so that we make sure we have a true 48 inch post the small center section in the middle gets cut out then we've got a notch out an inch and a half so that we can set the post on the deck still have enough meat that we can screw the post into the side of the deck but i also have the post resting on the deck that's where this notch comes into place so then we're going to cut out this notch an inch and a half down all the way to the base this part of the meat will get screwed into the deck this part of the meat gets disappeared okay first i set the saw at depth you know okay so i'll cut all these so that way i'm moving it back and forth but she'll cut this line right there right that's the plan that's our job yeah yeah so [Applause] and then we'll set it all the way to cut the other side for the other pieces okay [Music] okay and i sent it all the way okay so you want to hold them up okay here keep them there and i'm going to clean them with the skill set up a little bit i kind of cleaned that one up okay i still know i still get that ribs though because when we put them on there then they'll stick crooked from one side to another oh you gotta get that real frankie uses torque head leg screws to connect the post to the deck we sheed the exterior framing with the fascia board made by moisture shoe because the material is flexible we push it up into place as we screw down the line now remember when you screw this off you can only come down you know five inches our plan was to use a chalk line to create a straight edge to cut all the tails off from the deck but then it started to rain and washed our marks away so instead frankie gets a little creative with the level we don't have a top rail for this deck and so we've got to get a little bit creative okay i'm still not sold on this idea of what we're going to do for a top rail it's got to wrap all the way around it i want to show you a handrail that i made that frankie and i made a while back and we're going to scout and see if we can duplicate it so everyone thought i was crazy when i wanted to do this but you see this it's live edge i found this in the woods let me show you what it looks like this is i think this is amazing looking wood and you know it would be more maintenance but if i can find that wood that would make an amazing but i would need a lot of it let's go in search off hi lucy let's go now frankie suggested we use the moisture shield for the top rail of the deck but i'm not sold on that look i kind of wanted something more custom and so we're going to go back out into the woods where i found that top railing for that banister and see if there's more of it the material for that banister actually was part of the roof framing on this old lean-to we got one good one we could pull that one out else do we got i don't think it's gonna be enough so i'm gonna go check the barn to see if i can find any hidden gems in there all right well this is the farm i grew up on let's see if this old barn we may not have enough wood out there but maybe in here this looks pretty safe doesn't it of course i always like to leave loader arms hanging by a strap all right oh what do we got look at that don't fall on me look at that oh that looks kind of amazing i bet that would be flipping cool rough sawn oak i don't know anything in here we can use oh hey welcome to our uh this is where we did all our repair work this was it right here nothing in here stands out so i'm going to pull that oak down and bring it back to our site and see if we can use that all right well we got him down let's take a look at what we're going to be dealing with that don't look too bad i like how it's rough hewn and straight this wood's got to be whoa don't hit that hot wire with the wood not only does it have that super cool cross hatching but just to know that that piece of wood is probably 150 maybe even 200 years ago and that thing started to grow it's just a cool fact by itself at least it is to me i don't know if these are gonna work i don't i think they're only eight foot long hey frankie those those timbers are only eight foot long oh that ain't worth doing and you gotta put them post every four feet i would say no [Music] yeah because it would hover right there it would end there it wouldn't end on a post ain't gonna work what's that frankie it just wouldn't be worth it so we go back to our original plan to use the moisture shield as a top rail but it's so flexible that it needs to be supported 100 percent below it otherwise it's not gonna work so frankie comes up with this system and i always start it high see how high yeah and then i suck it in it'll take it down notice you see that yep just one on the top you don't put nothing on the bottom no no that's the the second screwings all the labors which is frankie's way of saying that it's my job so this is the moisture shield top rail it actually doesn't look that bad it actually kind of looks sharp no i was a little worried about it [Music] i don't want the view of the lake blocked from the deck so i'm going to experiment i have actually used barge channel rope in the past but i'm actually running short of it she didn't like to say grope nope she don't like cutting rope this is a bit of a gamble because i've gotta actually drill through my post to get the barge channel rope to hang the way i want it to look but i'm still not really sold on using this material all right here you go bud i tape the end so the rope doesn't fray when i cut it you got both impacts here i do how come because i'm a hog i'm an impact in a perfect world i'd have four to five strands of this barbed channel rope as my railing but i don't have enough material to pull that off but here is a few details on how you install it just in case you guys want to try to pull this technique off at your own on the end post we only drill halfway into the post the barge channel doesn't have to go all the way through it now on the center post we drill all the way clean through and then whenever we come to a 90 degree corner we drill partially in on each end [Music] okay the rope gets secured to the post just using deck screws that's what she looks like i'll put it in there dead end it and then there frankie told me to try drilling a hole with the impact instead of the regular drill driver so that's what i'm going to do here how is that fly still sitting on the pulse while i'm drilling right next to it [Music] and that's the impact yeah i kind of kind of like the impact better i don't know the top rail for the steps will go down at an angle so the posts have to be cut at the same angle here's how frankie does it that gets a handrail over the top so that's the angle oh sorry frankie's my dust going in your face my dust [Music] so [Music] all right so some of you guys are gonna think i'm nuts for just i fell in love with this wood there's certain things i like about it but what i really like is this cross hatching the saw cut marks are still in it and just to know that this piece of wood has got to be at least a hundred and some years old and look at how straight it is so it's been taken care of for a long time i'm not letting that go to waste i'll reuse this somewhere else but i gotta clean it up i gotta store it right to make sure the wood stays in good shape i stick it in one of my trailers all right guys that's our video for today frankie what do we got left to do nothing i'm kind of tired i am two i'm more out yeah until the heat the heat yeah big deck three days this big deck let me say it was 11 23 34 feet by 12 34 by 12 that's just that section right yeah then this is and then this was whatever 10. that's it we still we're gonna put on a stair stringer and then we're gonna let that we're gonna let the deck adjust because we got an old deck and we've got a new deck we're gonna let these two adjust and then we're gonna probably raise up the box yeah we'll put a center beam but we're going to let everything go to where it's got to go that's what we got what nothing we have good tools yeah for the job no no uh no complaints on really i think i mean you're really picky about tools nothing like seriously nothing no no they all worked i didn't use nothing to mine dude i liked i liked them too yeah this was all right this was a surprise to me the 12 yeah 12 volt this it did yeah i thought i used the first thing and this is all i would use for my preference this thing super light super light and i charge change batteries two or three times in a day at the max and they would be charged up so yep anyway big thanks to skill big thanks to you guys for watching and that's our video god bless go get them and we'll see on another one have fun all right see you frankie thanks man everything i think is done i mean you need to ride back up no no okay see ya