- 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.
Newcastleton
Newcastleton, is a village in the Scottish Borders, a few miles from the border with England, on the Liddel Water. It is the website of Hermitage Castle. Newcastleton is 10 mi (16 kilometres) eastern of Langholm, 17 mi (27 km) south of Hawick, 24 mi (39 km) north of Carlisle and also 74 mi (119 kilometres) south of Edinburgh. Newcastleton was developed as a result of the land clearances in the 1790s when people were compelled to move from Old Castleton village. There has been an individual festival at Newcastleton given that 1970. "Copshaw Holm" (one more name for the town) is celebrated in the track "Copshawholm Fair", composed by David Anderson in 1830, as sung by Willie Scott among others.
