The deck is down!!!

So after a mammoth weekend of work, and with thanks to all my amazing friends that did such an amazing job to help out, I can say that the deck was put down in weekend. To go over the numbers, it took about 27 hours, at most 6 people but generally 1 or 2, to lay 26 square metres of deck. But it all went down fairly easily, just taking time, and I can say its no more than a mill out of square, and almost dead level the whole way, so thats a win by my book!!

But I can't thank the people that helped out enough, particularly Troy who spend at least 12 hours working on it on Saturday, and to Brian who was there for both days clocking up more hours on the tools than I'd care to recall. I'm indebted to these boys to a larger degree than the bank that loaned me a stupendous amount of money to buy a house, so thank you guys...!!

Now where does this bit go??

Chris holding that wall up as though his very life depended on it!!

We toook the opportunity to clean up some of the crazy long grass that resides over the fence. Gee that RoundUp stuff goes ok :)

Starting to lay the boards, with Troy and Brian.

Heading towards midnight, and we're still on the tools... But geez its looking schmick :)

The last half was the fun bit, and it turned out just dandy! All level and square, just the way it shold be.

Almost done, Brian doing some of his best thinking and working out our stratgy for the final pesky board.

The girls got sent to the naughty wall

FINISHED!!!

The place now looks a million bucks, almost like Jamie himself dropped a blitz on it, so here's to summer deck parties!!

The large amount of work that got done however meant that riding took a back seat, so that will have to get rectified during the week, so anyone thats got some rides going, I'd love to hear about it.

I'm destroyed after this weekend, and a bit bummed that I didn't do the bay ride. Awh well, a 300km ride in the Alpine shire in a few weeks will resolve that I guess :)