The last piece of demolition was the deck. Originally we did not plan to remove it ourselves, but Jeremy was glad that he decided to do it himself. We saved a lot of the boards under the deck. Now that lumber is the price of gold, we were not throwing away any piece that could be used for another project (like raised garden beds).
Jeff came with his truck and helped Jeremy with most of the project. The first order of business was to move the deck steps to the porch so that we could use the front door.
That plan worked out perfectly.
Next step was to attempt to save the flat piece of deck to reuse. Jeremy knew it was just sitting on beams, but he wasn't sure if it would hold up being drug off the beams. It did! Jeff pulled it off with his truck and moved it to the back of the yard.
Then it was a matter of deconstructing the remaining piece of the deck. They cut it in pieces and used the truck to pull them off the foundation.
At the end of the day we were left with a bare space where the deck used to be! Jeremy left the step out of the doors and will take them out at the last minute. We have 19 years of habit going out the back door to break!
Now we wait to get to the top of the mason's list for the foundation.
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