Three Rivers Photos-Building the Decks

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August 6, 2004 - August 9, 2004

This weekend was long and hard! Three days of grueling work,
We left on Thursday night and started work on Friday morning. There had been significant progress made on the roads, and (thankfully) an access road to South Camp had been bulldozed in. In addition, our 4-wheel drive had now been fixed, so we felt more comfortable driving to South Camp.
Work started on Friday morning around 7am, and continued until it got dark. On Saturday, we started around 8am, and worked until 6 or so. But on Sunday, Loretta had run out of steam. So we started around 9am, and quit around 4pm. As you can see, we still managed to get a lot done.
(As always, click on the picture to get a larger picture that you can see better)

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South Camp at the beginning of the weekend	Rob built the patio in 8x8 frames, stacked on top of each other, while Loretta painted	It's a war! Loretta was already covered in paint anyway.	Rob took over the painting.
Patio frames laid out	Another view	1/2 of the patio is up after much hard work	Another view of 1/2 patio
Rob carries the posts to the work area	Frames are clamped together and then screwed together	Done! See how high the front is?	Completed patio, from the perspective of our chairs
Another view of the completed patio	We bought the planks last weekend, thinking we'd have time (ha!)	Starting to lay out planks for painting (but we didn't have time)	So, the planks warped. Check out the one on the far left and the far right!
But we prevailed! And the bathroom deck has all the planks screwed tightly in place	Finally, we sprayed tinted sealer on all the planks - cedartone.