After delievery tax title license chipping damaging and bad attitude from one idiot that works at lowes (Who the manager probably aint real happy with because he had to wind up giving me a 10% discount on the whole order to make ME happy afterward) the grand total came to $1403.. . . . . uhm and some change.

ANYWAY it should all be delivered today.

2x8 joists
2x6 decking
corrugated galvanized tin
all pressure treated lumber. . . .

ARR ARRR ARRR ARRR ARRR (Tim Allen mangrunt)

GoodOlBoy

unless I missed something...I still not heard how you plan to attatch the roof to the house. I am asking because I know I will get information that I can use soon....

Not attaching the roof to the house. The roof will be freestanding as part of the porch. The 4x4s that hold up the roof (12 of them one every 5 feet around the edge of the porch) will hold the subfloor, and the roof.

Delivery was made about two hours ago. . . . :D

GoodOlBoy

Ok...GOB...will be awaiting pictures here..

WOOT ya win da prize dat was da magic wordiness.

Future porch!

GoodOlBoy

Interesting: I just finished a 16'X16' deck and the story goes like this = Well grandpa got the kids a pool for the 2 and 3 year olds, now this is not the small pool I should have got but the big one.
Problem 1 was that it needs a level spot to set it up and all my land has a great deal of slope. Hence comes the deck but the kids love it and grandpa lol

Just a quick note from my experience. You may find the pressure treated 1x4 wants to curl and twist. I would use pressure treated only where it is going to be in contact with the soil or moisture, for long periods of time. I see lots of people use it for decking and in no time the boards twist so much that they break off the heads of the screws. Using it for the joists might not be a bad idea- probably don't have to as you are going to use boards for the deck- there will be spaces in between for the water to run out. Just my two cents worth.

I have had the same problem with that treated junk in the past.

The new plastic wood products they use now is great stuff...I have used it and not only is it easy to work with but is no warp..rot....nothing and easy to drill , cut etc etc...might be worth checking into...and....if you are into the recycle thing....helps there too..

TREX is a brand name but I think Lowes sells something of same nature but diff name..Not other work is needed like waterproofing etc you need do with real lumber...Looks like wood but mix of materials...great ...maybe just use it for your deck boards????

Skeet,
Judging by the stack GOB has there it's a little late to swap to a Trex product.
Trex is a nice product as you described, a little on the $$ side.

29.00 per 5/4 x6"x12' stick

We all may need a little more economic stimulus ... Dear George ...

Don't get me started about economic stimulus. If we had all saved some money during the last decade, we wouldn't need anything from the government, all of which we will eventually have to pay back. I don't know what generation is at fault. There may be several to blame. Maybe the baby boomer generation for letting things get out of hand with social security, medicare, and medicaid, and the national debt. Most definitely my generation for not saving any money. I have a bunch of clients in financial straights, and it is all because they have absolutely nothing in savings and they cannot weather even the slightest down turn because they owe so much on credit that they need $7,000 to $8,000 per month to "live" which I guess "live" equates to avoiding bankruptcy or foreclosure.

Now, the government has to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and about 400,000 homeowners from foreclosure to the tune of $4 billion. The cost could end up being as high as $25 billion some say.

This entire fiasco has been brewing over a decade or more, and there isn't any one person or individual generation to blame.

Now, back to the original subject. When/If we build a deck on our next house, I will most definitely use TREX or a similar product, and put plastic railings on the deck. I love the minimum maintenance feature and cannot stand power washing and staining my current deck. I'm probably going to go with plastic fencing around the yard so I can avoid having to deal with maintenance on that, but I am debating brick columns and iron fencing.

So GOB where are the pix of your new porch?

pics will be comming, the decking, the porch, even the roof rafters are done. The roof isn't on because I decided to try and see if I could make a #2 square bit go all the way to the bone through the top of my left thumb. Turns out I could do it, and could stop the torque of the drill in the process. Soooo roof will have to wait for another weekend. Yep wish I had known about the treated 1x4s, they are already bowed twisted and torqued all over the place.

GoodOlBoy

My thumb is pulsing just reading about that. Get better quick GOB, and I'm sorry to hear about the 1x4 boards. Hopefully, your experience with your thumb and the boards has taught you a lesson, and hopefully, others will learn from it too.

Used to be you only had to worry about bashing it with a hammer!

Now you have the aid of technology to really hurt yourself!

Hope it gets better soon.