- 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.
Innerleithen
Pitlochry is a burgh in the area of Perthshire in Scotland, resting on the River Tummel. It is carried out as part of the council area of Perth and also Kinross, and also has a population of 2,776, according to the 2011 census. It is mostly a Victorian community, which became a vacationer resort after Queen Victoria and also Prince Albert checked out the location in 1842 and also bought a highland estate at Balmoral, and also the arrival of the railway in 1863. It stays a prominent traveler hotel today and is specifically understood for its Pitlochry Festival Theatre, salmon ladder and also as a centre for hillwalking, surrounded by hills such as Ben Vrackie as well as Schiehallion. It is prominent as a base for coach vacations. The town has actually preserved several stone Victorian buildings, and the high street has an uncommon period cast iron canopy over one side.