- Start in one corner of the sub-frame and position the first board across the inner joists. You want the deck board in the opposite direction to the inner joists, ensuring that it’s flush with the frame. Position any end-to-end joins between the deck boards halfway across an inner joist so you can screw both boards into the joist for stability. Make sure you keep a gap of between 5-8mm to allow for expansion of the wood.
- Begin to screw your deck boards to the joists. You’ll need to secure the deck board to every joist is covers along your deck frame. Use two screws for every joist. Mark where you’re going to add your screws, ensuring that they are at least 15mm from the end of the board and 20mm from the outside edges. Drill pilot holes for the screws, being careful to only drill through the deck board and not the joist. Then screw the decking screws into the holes.
- Continue to screw in the deck boards, ensuring you leave the correct expansion gap. You can stagger the deck board joins across the deck for more strength.
- Sand down any cut ends if you need to before applying decking preserver to protect the timber from rotting.
Alcester
Alcester is a market community and civil parish of Roman beginning at the joint of the River Alne and River Arrowhead in Warwickshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) west of Stratford-upon-Avon, and also 8 miles south of Redditch, close to the Worcestershire border. The 2011 census tape-recorded a population of 6,273. Today the town features architecture from the Middle ages, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian as well as 20th century. The earliest residence seems The Old Malthouse at the edge of Church Road as well as Malt Mill Lane, which most likely dates from about 1500. The clock on St Nicholas Church (Grade 2 *) is in an unusual setting on the south-west edge of the 14th-century tower, making it visible from the High Street. The church also houses the burial place of Fulke Greville, grandpa of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke. The church's Georgian nave with Doric columns as well as plastered ceiling is thought to have actually been designed by Francis Smith of Warwick, manager of its rebuild by Woodward brothers of Chipping Camden in 1729.
