{"id":2841,"date":"2012-09-06T15:42:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2012-09-06T15:45:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:45:57","slug":"deck-joists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/deck-joists\/","title":{"rendered":"Deck Joists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, aside from the famous ledger, we hadn&#8217;t made much of a change to the actual house until the day we finally got to attach joists to the beam.\u00c2\u00a0 This made the biggest difference in the visual progress of the project, you can really see the size of this frigging deck, finally.\u00c2\u00a0 It was probably the smoothest construction day so far, with the exception of the discovery that the joists we picked were nowhere near the same width, in some cases almost 1\/4 inch difference, which caused some swearing and thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 But we managed to get it all attached, and\u00c2\u00a0the fascia board on too.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s looking darn good, if I do say so.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2848\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/deck-joists\/wp_000084-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000084-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Nokia Lumia 900&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1344111522&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0416666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hoist the joists\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000084-2-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2848\" title=\"Hoist the joists\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000084-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000084-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000084-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000084-2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/deck-joists\/wp_000085-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2849\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/deck-joists\/wp_000085-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000085-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Nokia Lumia 900&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1344111538&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0416666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Under the mighty deck\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000085-2-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2849\" title=\"Under the mighty deck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000085-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000085-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000085-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WP_000085-2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One note about the timing of these blog posts, naturally the progress is WAY slower than I thought given that I have no idea what I am doing, and I must rely on friends, and naturally we all have day jobs, so this work actually happened weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Add to that my blogging tardiness and you have a huge time lag there.\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned folks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/vallentyne-deck-build\/\">The Plan<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/12\/digging-a-hole\/\">The Hole<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Heat Ledger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/heat-ledger\/\">The Ledger<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Enter ye the trench of puns, and abandon all hope\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/enter-ye-the-trench-of-puns-and-abandon-all-hope\/\">The Footings<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Permalink to The Post Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/the-post-post\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Post Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, aside from the famous ledger, we hadn&#8217;t made much of a change to the actual house until the day we finally got to attach joists to the beam.\u00c2\u00a0 This made the biggest difference in the visual progress of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/deck-joists\/\">Continue reading <span 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