- 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.
Isle Of Tiree
Tiree is the most western island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The low-lying island, southwest of Coll, has an area of 7,834 hectares (30.2 square miles) as well as a population of around 650. The land is extremely abundant, and crofting, along with tourism, and fishing are the major sources of work for the islanders. Tiree, together with Colonsay, takes pleasure in a relatively high variety of total hours of sunlight throughout the late spring and also very early summer season contrasted to the standard for the UK. Tiree is a popular windsurfing place. It is often described as "Hawaii of the north". The island's population was 653 as recorded by the 2011 demographics a decline of over 15% since 2001 when there were 770 common locals. During the very same period Scottish island populations in its entirety expanded by 4% to 103,702.