- 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.
Filey
Filey is a small town as well as civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, it is part of the borough of Scarborough in between Scarborough and Bridlington on the North Sea coast. Although it was a fishing town, it has a large beach and also ended up being a preferred tourist resort. According to the 2011 UK census, Filey parish had a population of 6,981, an exact number being 2001 UK census 6,819. Filey goes to the eastern end of the Cleveland Way, a long-distance walkway; it starts at Helmsley and also skirts the North York Moors. It was the 2nd National Trail to be opened (1969 ). The community goes to the northern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail which starts at Hessle and crosses the Yorkshire Wolds. Filey is the finishing factor for Great Yorkshire Bike Ride. The 70-mile (110 km) trip starts at Wetherby Racecourse. Filey has a train station on the Yorkshire Shore Line. A second station at Filey Holiday Camp railway station to the south of the community served the former Butlins vacation camp. The camp has actually been re-developed into a 600-home vacation housing development, The Bay Filey. It is just one of the largest coastal advancements of this kind in the UK and also the very first homes were finished in 2007.