The Regenerative Home's video: How to Repair and Replace Old Rotten or Broken Deck Boards

In this video, I show you how to repair and replace rotten or broken deck boards and bring your old deck back to life! Below are some links to tools I use. ✔️✔️ Need Coaching on your project, homestead, or business? Schedule a free 15-minute zoom or phone consultation here. 👉👉 https://calendly.com/netregenerativelife Makita Circular Saw. https://amzn.to/3dSSSQs Milwaukee Plunge Cutter Multitool. https://amzn.to/2yTIzgf Universal Oscillating Blades. (10 pack) https://amzn.to/3cEoQja Milwaukee grinder https://amzn.to/3cGPDLQ Cut off wheels 50 pack. https://amzn.to/2ZbrlFx Diablo 40 tooth 7 1/4" blade https://amzn.to/2zI5b3i Large speed square https://amzn.to/2Z7NswC transcription. Hello, Mike Stokes lush planet design-build. today I'm going to show you how to bring an old deck back to life. So if you look down below here, you'll see we have these old rotted segments of this deck here, the framing underneath is still pretty good. We don't have the time or the money to replace the whole deck. So we're going to do is we're going to repair it. Let's go look at the deck we already did. So this deck that we have right here, we've already done a bunch of the patching work. So all of these seams that you see, we're all rotted out on the ends. And you'll find that with most decks, they would always rot where there's wood contact, and so you'll find the ends of the decks are the first places to rub. So all of these we did a plunge cut. Well, I use the circular saw and then the punch cutter. I'll show you how we're going to do it next. And then what we're going to do now is we're going to stain this whole thing and make it all match. But I wish I had a before picture of what it looked like because it looked just as bad as that one over. So now let's go back and I'll do the patch. tools I use for this is Makita portable saw plunge cutter and an A various assortment of pry bars depending on whichever one I need so I don't damage the other wood to a big square and a little square nail puller, hammer, and pets. So it does take a little bit of finesse to do this. So what I've done is I've made a beeline across the center of the joist here and it goes right through the nails. And I'm using an old Diablo blade Diablos are awesome, they will last through a lot of nails. So it takes a little bit it's a little challenging, but what you want to do is you might need to come over with this angle over here. So I've got a large square here. So I've got the tip of the fence right up against the blade and then I'm really looking straight down on top of it with one eye closed, and then I'm going to start sending the blade straight down. Okay, I'm gonna put on my glasses, or my earmuffs, and I'm gonna do that. That's as much as we're gonna go with the Ski saw. Now we're gonna take the plunge cutter, cutter blade, we're gonna hug if you look really close in that line, we're gonna hug the left side of the line over here, we're gonna hug this side of the line to make a really nice clean cut. And we'll actually try to back the blade a little bit that way. So that the top of the new piece will fit in real nice. So that's about as much as we're going to get with that. And now we're going to try to take the board out. It's gonna break a little bit And then we'll cut the rest of it out. See we got a little break left. And we're just gonna cut that little break off. And then actually I didn't bring out the grinder. We're gonna also need the grinder to get the last little bit of the nails out. Last week I forgot it's just a portable grinder. And a quick note for if you're doing any extensive building, the grinder wheel and oscillating blades are so important that I like to buy them in bulk. And it's not 100% you can see it's a little bit off, but it's pretty darn good. So, we'll just put in a new piece here, and it'll look great. So I got this board right here, perfectly good Redwood board that had been thrown away the dump, so didn't cost me any money. And I can take this old deck and bring it back to life. So here we go. lifted up a little bit here. I hope that was valuable. Please subscribe if it was and hit the notification button. I just wanted to say one of the reasons I wanted to make this video is to help anyone who has a deck and I know for me personally, you know, it just seems. So wasteful to throw out a whole deck because you got some rotting on the deck boards especially when you're framing members underneath are still looking good. So I hope to save you some money and some time and have a great day. Subscribe to my channel: https://bit.ly/3eGRbXB Lush Planet Design Build Website: http://www.lushplanet.net/ Wild Alive Education website: http://wildalive.net Follow me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-stokes-7615123 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/wildaliveliving/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LushPlanet This channel receives some affiliate commissions on sales.