How to Rebuild a Deck | Replacing the Deck Boards (Decking) | Part 2 of 3

we're transforming this old neglected deck and turning it into this beautiful backyard getaway we'll be taking you through step by step on how we did it in this video series [Music] in the first part of this project we took a look at all the problems we uncovered while trying to replace the deck boards and make this deck look new again in this part we'll pick up where we left off start replacing the deck boards and start moving this deck to completion so when it comes to choosing wood for your deck you've got a few different options one you could use press retreated lumber which lasts about 10 to 15 years you could use seer which lasts about 20 to 25 years or you could use redwood redwood lasts around 50 years or so in outdoor conditions now a lot of times people will choose higher-end options to which some of those would be IPE teak or Trex Trex is the manufactured option that is actually made out of plastic and recycled materials it's a really good choice if you're looking for a completely maintenance free deck but it's also the most expensive choice so for our case we're going to actually come back and use pressure-treated lumber the main reason for that is because we're not replacing every visible board on this deck and so since we're not doing that and some of the boards are in an ok condition but not great we're gonna coat the finished deck in a paint instead of a stain so since it's gonna be covered up with paint anyway there's not that much of a reason for us to go with a higher-end choice of wood the previous homeowners used this really thick deck restoration paint and in order to get the old decking boards off we need to get through that paint in order to be able to reach the screws now we could go and scrape everything off with a paint scraper but that's gonna take a long time so to shortcut that what we're using is a really strong rare earth magnet this is a neodymium magnet actually just off of a white board a magnetic whiteboard in order to locate the screws we're going to use this and then to get to the screw heads themselves and pull the paint off quickly we're going to use this grinder so I'll show you how this works so basically we'll run this over the board here and it finds a screw head like that so now we know we can take this off and we'll just grind through the paint real quick so now that the paint is scraped off you can see the hole where the screw head goes what we'll do is we'll take this utility knife and we'll clean out the screw head the rest of the way and you can see it right here and we'll take our driver now this is gonna be the same process for all of them we're just going to use this magnet make sure we locate our screw we know where it is we grind this down find the screw head we'll clean it out the rest of the way with this utility blade and then we'll use our driver to remove the screw [Music] replacing the deck boards is a pretty straightforward process as you remove the older boards you'll just have to put the new boards in place sometimes you'll have to remove multiple boards to fit the new boards in especially if the new boards have any kind of a warping to them so what we've done here is we've removed quite a few boards and we've just been replacing boards as we go so once the new boards are in place just make sure they line up make sure that your gaps are where you want them to be if there's too much of a gap then you'll need to make sure to bend the deck boards before you screw them in place so that way they're nice and straight also if the boards that you're using are pretty wet say if you're using treated lumber you'll probably want to have as little gap as possible because as these wet boards dry they'll tend to shrink up so sometimes people make the mistake of putting a gap in between each of the boards when the boards are wet and that just leaves a really big gap at the end once the boards are dry so make sure that you gap your boards appropriately depending on how moist the wood is so if you put a screw in and it makes the deck board raise up all you have to do is back the screw out a little bit and so the board flattens down and then screw it back in place that'll make sure your deck boards are laying flat so you can see on this board the board is tight down on that end there's no gap just the way we want it but on this end as you start to come up this way you'll see it widen out quite a bit and that just means that the board is warped so we'll need to make sure this is pulled over tight before we put a screw in it to hold it in place if this is a really warped board and we had to really fight it to make sure it was gonna be put in place evenly then we could use another board and tie it into this joist to use it as a lever to pull it tight and if we run into that I'll show you what that looks like so you can see here we've got this board in place it's tight on that in it's set on this end but here it's still gapped quite a bit so what we're gonna do is we're going to take a spare piece of wood we're gonna screw this into the joist and then we're gonna use it as leverage to pull it in place and start our screwing this board hold this until the gap was where we want to be and then what you do [Applause] [Applause] if you're having to fit a board around some posts like in this case here we've got to put this board in but the post interferes what you need to do is take the board align it where you want it to go and have it basically up against the posts you'll need to scribe on the sides of the post in order to accurately mark the width in order to get the depth width you'll need to do is you'll need to measure on the edge between the board and the object you're cutting around so the post in this case so here we've got it at 4 and 5/8 inches and on here we need to mark it at four and five eighths as well or you can do a little bit more if you're planning on trimming this out to hide any of the gaps you'll need to use out of both sides get the measurement transfer it to the board and then mark this board out and then in order to cut this away either use ideally you could use a jigsaw you could use a circular saw if you're careful I guess you could use a reciprocating saw - or even a hammer and chisel but it kind of depends on what tool you have available alright so what I've done is I've gone ahead and after I've scribed these boards I went ahead and took a square and marked the outside end to make sure that the head of a nice straight line and then I'm going to use a circular saw to go along and not this cutout now that the decking is complete in the next video we'll tackle the railing and all the finishing touches including painting in the deck itself as we wrap up this series you won't want to miss it thanks for watching this video and don't forget to like this video and subscribe to our channel if you haven't already a top homeowner our goal is to help you become the top homeowner in your neighborhood thanks again for watching and we will see you in the next one

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Length: 9min 51sec (591 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 10 2020