- 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.
Shifnal
Shifnal is a market town and also civil parish in Shropshire, England, about 3 miles (5 kilometres) eastern of Telford. It has a railway station on the Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton Line and is near the M54 freeway. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 6,391, raising to 6,776 at the 2011 census. With a a great deal of on-going housing developments this is expected to pass 10,000 by 2020. In late 2018 prepare for a second, much bigger expansion of Shifnal, were disclosed by Shropshire County Council. The propositions, which created significant local controversy as well as brought about a public meeting, included up to an additional 1,500 homes, 40 hectares of work land and a bypass south of the community by 2036. Big areas of farmland would be required for the advancement.