Deck refurb in progress

[Artie]

Got no GFI’s or Arcfaults in my shop. Yes I know I’m not in compliance with the code, you buy my place , I’ll make it compliant  

[Gene Howe]

Not only are all my 110 outlets, in the house and shop, GFI protected but, the breakers are all GFI, also. When we built, an electrical supply house was liquidating. 

[Gunny]

5 hours ago, Artie said:

Yes I know I’m not in compliance with the code, you buy my place , I’ll make it compliant

Someone tries to buy and tells me I have to change all that stuff over blah blah blah…  Here's my answer, this place comes, AS IT IS.  You want Dream house and all that, well the Borg is a mile down the street.  

[HandyDan]

[Artie]

I’ve posted this before, but I like it.      What’s black, crisp, and hangs from a chandelier? An inept electrician. 

[p_toad]

3 hours ago, Artie said:

What’s black, crisp, and hangs from a chandelier? An inept electrician

You can't believe how many lamps, chandeliers, and ceiling fans get "donated" to our Restore and a lot of them the condition of the wiring is something i can't pass along to anyone else (i mean burned off insulation, etc.).   T'ain't funny McGee.

[steven newman]

Front porch and the back patio have the "Outdoor" box with cover...and both have GFI  receptacles in them.  

 

I MIGHT be grandfathered in on those...they were there when I moved in.....

[Gunny]

4 hours ago, steven newman said:

I MIGHT be grandfathered in on those...they were there when I moved in...

well maybe a second cousin.  

[steven newman]

BTW..I was using the one on the front porch project....

back there by the crowbar...

Although..it is under a roof....of sorts..

With it's own gutter and downspout...on both sides...

[Gunny]

Busy couple of days. Managed to get the walls all painted, the floor painted, and finally got the only shelf framed out.  The top still needs more coats of paint this dry fit looked good this evening.   The threshold got cut, a nice angle cut to meet the deck boards.  Much easier to roll over it now.  This evening I remounted the lights after I made two boards to hold them, and painted them as well.  The ceiling is just rafters with vinyl soffit I had in stock.  Where I mounted the outlet I put a strip of OSB to have something to hold the light strips.  Had my thinking cap on, did it BEFORE I installed the soffit.

 

Just about done with the interior.  Next up is the two 31 inch wide doors. Have a few deck boards I am not happy with, will go buy some new ones.  These were given to me so you get not so good ones sometimes.  Still a few for free ain't bad.

 

Might get this finished up by end of the month.  Not a @steven newman speed project, but hey it's done in this lifetime.  Has to count for something.

 

 

 

[Gene Howe]

Looking swell, Gunny. 

[Gerald]

I like the look of the paint job. Must have taken many coats to do that on wafer board. You sure do have a lot of energy in this summer heat.

[Gunny]

9 hours ago, Gerald said:

Must have taken many coats to do that on wafer board.

2 coats of primer, used Kilz oil based.  Then 3 coats of color.  Two was okay but I expect it to get a lot of wear from chairs and fan being taken in and out.  Floor got same treatment.

 

9 hours ago, Gerald said:

You sure do have a lot of energy in this summer heat.

True, but when I hit the sack at night, I am out like a light.

[Gunny]

The details in this project consume a lot of time.  Sure I could just leave it but why not take it up a notch and do those things most would ignore?

 

The main power junction is on this wall.  As I am bad about adding later I wanted this box to be accessible, just in case.  A normal junction box cover only covers the box itself.  So even if you cut the best of holes a gap will exist all around the box as it comes through the wall.  Didn't see any oversized ones available.  Maybe @Artie knows where top get them?  Either way this was my solution.  I made a oversized cover out of 1/4 ply.  Glued 1/8 strips to the back to stand off from the wall slightly.  Painted orange, my way of knowing this is a power junction.  The metal box cover is still attached to the box but this now goes over the top covering all the holes.  To my mind makes for a more finished look.  Is it code?  Maybe @Artie can enlighten us?

 

This is type of box used, next picture is a plastic cover but same size as metal one.  

 

 

 

This is with the metal cover installed.

 

 

This is with my cover installed over the metal one.

 

[DuckSoup]

 That looks good Gunny. I would suggest that you write the circuit number on the metal cover for future reference.

 Code says that a j-box has to be accessible, its common sense but people do bury them in walls. 

[Gunny]

37 minutes ago, DuckSoup said:

That looks good Gunny. I would suggest that you write the circuit number on the metal cover for future reference.

Good idea!!

 

I wrote a diagram on the back of the metal plate telling me what wires went where but didn't think about the circuit breaker number.  Have to retrofit a few others with same information.  Not the first time I have used this method.  

 

Easy enough to do, already have number kit available AND knew where it was.  

 

 

37 minutes ago, DuckSoup said:

its common sense but people do bury them in walls.

Very true, early on in remodeling the house I ran into this issue a few times.  Fixed them but it was a challenging task at times.  Thankfully the house is done.

 

Now the shop, yeah I have few nightmares to be addressed one winter.  

 

 

Edited August 18, 2019 by Woodbutcherbynight
forgot picture

[Gunny]

Managed to get some J channel for the last of the vinyl siding on the front to be finished up.  Having pre cut and dry fit all the pieces minus the J channel it still took a bit of time to put all together.  I am NOT going to make money doing vinyl siding, takes me way too long.  

 

Did manage to get 1/3 of the deck painted with Behr Deck Over, same color as sides.  Or at least same formula.  I can see the shade is slightly off where I primed to edges and such.  No big deal.  

 

Tomorrow is another day.

 

Before siding on front                                                                                          After siding and J channel installed

 

            

 

 

Beginning of painting the deck itself

 

 

[Artie]

You have a UL listed cover, for the box. All is code complaint. From a sparkles point of view, I would have put a flat 2 gang plaster ring on the 4 inch square box, then used an oversized 2 gang plastic blank plate on that. It would just have been easier for me, than making the plywood strips, BUT I’m not trying to take away any of your fun LOL.

[Gunny]

2 hours ago, Artie said:

I would have put a flat 2 gang plaster ring on the 4 inch square box, then used an oversized 2 gang plastic blank plate on that.

I asked the guy at the electrical place if they had anything that could be put together.  Somehow I knew there had to be a way.    When I 1st made one for another building I made 4, knowing they would get used.  This was the last one left...

 

Knew I should have made 10.  

[Gunny]

Weather has been good as in no RAIN.  Heat on the other hand, been a tad warmer than I enjoy working in normally.  Managed to get the railings put up and leveled out.  Now on to the uprights, 60 in all to cut, paint and then install.  I have 16 at a time I can finish, first dozen is done and started with the install.  Next couple dozen should go much quicker, I am all set up now.  Made a jig for drilling all those holes, keeps the project moving along on the tedious work.

 

Once I put up the railings the first thing I noticed is how much smaller the deck feels now.