The Regenerative Home's video: How to Repair a Deck and Remodel Tour

Today's video is a remodel tour in Northern California that we did last year. I Mike Stokes and this is a design bill. The first thing I'd like to show you is well the stairs. So this particular build, the clients just wanted to repair stuff. Learn more at http://www.lushplanet.net/ So we took the existing stairwell which was kind of just went straight down like this, and then widened it and made these angled steps and then basically just repurposed and reuse the existing railing. If you look over here, you'll see a ne w trying to get away from that light. You'll see a new beam that runs the length of this deck. And again, the client didn't want to redo everything they just wanted to repair. So often when I find that we are rebuilding stuff, we're following up incomplete and incorrect construction. So this had those beans. You see those four by six beans, they came straight out of the house. And they were made a dug for. This beam that goes across was also made out of dug for us where the posts were placed those all with Redwood, and then the challenging part of the repair on this build. If you want to keep your house from rotting, you have to try to put it right above this like you got to separate the framing from the wall. So that's a half an inch separation. See right there. Right there. I think you can see the spacer there. So a little plastic. Yeah, right and There's a little plastic half-inch spacer, and those are everywhere in this build. So all we did was we cut out there were these four by sixes came straight out of the house. So we cut the old ones off because they're all rotted, sealed it super good. And then put this new ledger board across the whole deck and then installed new beams. This particular deck they built incorrectly to there was only a beam every four foot so it was really spongy up on top. And then also this Redwood, which you can't see from down here very well. But this Redwood, the original red one was construction Greg Redwood, which has SAP wood in it and will never last so you can never use construction grade, Redwood, for decking I don't know why they even sell it in decking but it's just a waste. So Another thing that we did on this remodel again, the client wanted to repurpose as much as they could. So we, we kept the old railing. We kept whatever beams that we could, then we replace the deck. And then we put a nice little corner seat. And there were these just like these all the way across the face, and they didn't like the way that it broke up the view. So we added this metal paneling to make four-inch wide railing which is safe and code for this giving a much more open look. And since we attached it to the existing posts that were there, these two by six posts that are right next to each other then we put a furring strip in the front so that it wouldn't look all hokey with just the metal on the face of the two by sixes hidden into the house so it's gonna be hard for me to remember everything that we did here because this was a few years ago. I just didn't, wasn't making videos back then turn on some lights. This whole room. You see this whole room here in the living room, go back around here so that you can see the kitchen in the living room. So this section had a wall so we knocked out that wall. Then this roof was really low so we raised the roof up. And these were two different colors and the roof and so we matched and stained that portion of the roof to match this portion of the roof. And then we added the island, we added these wood floors. And then we added the counters redesigned the kitchen so that went back over that wall and put in new windows and doors all the way throughout the house. And these walls were that sort of ugly old 70s wood paneling. So we ripped out all the panels and then had it all cleaned up all the sheetrock and had it textured. This is what we call an old-world smooth so it's got imperfections in it. It's a really nice look. I like it a lot. And basically, we went through the whole house and redid everything, all the electrical And all the walls, all the floors and can't really see this very well but super nice room. It was super dark and dank before but now it's bright. Good tone colors. That was a tough window to install. Thank you for watching my videos. I hope that they help you. I want to share everything that I've learned. You can check out more videos right over there, and also click ‘subscribe’ so that you can watch all of these videos. Subscribe to my channel: https://bit.ly/3eGRbXB Website: http://www.lushplanet.net/ Follow me on: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-stokes-7615123 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/wildaliveliving/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LushPlanet