Deck Safety and Maintenance

The crunch. That’s a sound you never want to hear when walking onto your backyard sanctuary. Three years ago, I […]

I remember a Tuesday morning three years ago. It was fifteen degrees outside, the kind of biting cold that makes

I remember the first major deck project I tackled back in the summer of 2012. I had spent weeks obsessing

I stood there with a heavy pry bar in my hand, staring at what looked like wet chocolate cake but

I spent the better part of a decade thinking I was a master craftsman until a bone-dry July afternoon proved

The Shovel-Tap Trick for Finding Hollow Spots in Old Deck Posts The Shovel-Tap Trick for Finding Hollow Spots in Old

I remember the Saturday morning clearly. The sun was hitting my expensive gray boards, highlighting every speck of yellow pollen

It happened last Tuesday after a light morning drizzle. I stepped out onto my back porch with my favorite mug,

I remember hosting my first big Fourth of July party after finishing what I thought was a masterpiece of a

I’ll never forget the sound of my boot sinking through a perfectly good-looking deck board. It wasn’t the board’s fault—it