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Mahogany Deck and Railings

The Mahogany railings for the elevated rear deck are being constructed, and Bob meets with Kevin Parquette who is doing the final assembly work. The deck features ample room for entertaining and is surrounded by a a simple, easy-to-construct railing. The railing is assembled from readily-available materials, and features decorative rail caps for a finished look. Parquette is using 8-penny stainless steel nails to assemble the railings. The nails are pre-coated with glue. When driven into the wood, the heat generated by the friction of the nail passing through the wood activates the glue, creating a strong and secure fastening system. Layout for the railing is done on the surface of the deck. The vertical balusters are sandwiched between two horizontal rails along the bottom, with a store-bought top rail securing the assembly. Once assembled, the railing sections are simply secured between the four-by-four-inch posts.

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Mahogany Deck and Railings

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" Our backyard deck really relates closely to the house into the sunroom and it's a good. Eight or ten feet in some areas actually about twelve feet above the grade because the backside of the property slopes away from the house so what we've got is. A wonderful party deck just big enough for family -- surfer actual little cocktail party idea and the wood that has been used is mahogany. Which is very popular these days it is a renewable sustainable commodity itself Philippine mahogany and it's been treated with a preservative which gives it that rich. Red color. And dust. The railings and posts and everything you could see over here are in place everything is essentially store bought the the the railings are mahogany these. Have not been treated with a preservative yet which is why you see that the kind of difference in color but you can order the balusters the sticks have you well. Bundled directly like this from a lumberyard. And you can put all these pieces together you can get posts that are laminated posts Kevin how -- Finally we'll talk with a -- second but -- hope that the he has not nailed yet these laminated four by four posts. Are also of mahogany there's a half dozen different pieces here that are all glued together and then there's veneer around it. The advantage of this is stability is not gonna warp and twist on you and you've got more strength to it and then these little. These old caps -- made by a little company up in Maine but little copper on top of everything here is basically bought at the lumber yard and assembled on site and you're getting ready to make up one of these right Kevin yes and this is a very simple design for the railing component. If you look at it in section you'll see that the balusters are held together by two rails at the bottom. And then at the top there's a simple cap detail that's also picked up at the lumberyard. Are you nailing these together. Basically we do our layout here first. So that we know where the baluster spacing us okay we tear to pieces. I'm down. Kids and you've got the other piece the other rail. At the other end temporarily yes just so that there are held kind of even while you nail it off yes -- What kind of fasteners are you shooting in there these are eight penny stainless steel finish now do they come with the hot -- Now we just pull out the other rail and could put her on top of the the size of the fasteners important because of their two big -- split the wood. Now do you want to stand it up to put the -- rail on her. Dirty needle marks on this one. Should go right yes. Does that correspond -- can't -- And we can stand it right up."

" This is the fun part getting -- getting monolithic."

" A couple of blocks here. And -- keep it up. And we shoot it right into place."

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