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Building a Redwood Deck and a Redwood-Cedar Fence

Bob helps Ryley build a redwood deck. Bob emphasizes the use of stainless steel nails when working with redwood due to the wood's acidity. Then, Danny Ruffini installs a custom-made redwood and cedar fence on the perimeter.
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Building a Redwood Deck and a Redwood-Cedar Fence

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" You know we were building the frame for the deck last week. Now -- you can see we've got most of the redwood decking in place down here and it really is beautiful even though we're in a rain and we just put a -- over ourselves. It really looks pretty arrogant cause the -- didn't get it done now one of the neat things about. Running a miter like this is that it's a very elegant and pretty detailed but -- what have you done to keep it from splitting up. The sentence while -- has had -- around all the -- and Iraq so you -- and job you've taken each one. And after you've made the miter cut. You kind of run it through routers. To get just a little bit of a bevel on there right right has got to remember this as -- pitching away from the house yeah. So this is that to a degree back -- just a little bit of a crown to it right yak right OK. The important thing is to use space. Stainless steel nails when you're working with rent it definitely and the reason for that is that the acid in the -- would stop and -- causes certain. About a black staining -- Kirk if you used just regular steel nails. And the other thing that you really want to concentrate on is you're nailing pattern. Because this is really up finished deck there's not going to be any stain on. And you want to make sure that all the nails lineup. Right alone. The whole section of deck so that you have that nice architectural feel to it. You gotta go slow right -- I don't -- point Russian at this point. Absolutely beautiful. You can tell it's also redwood but it's the type of fence design that. While being kind of a classic nineteenth century tonight it also provides. I'm very elegant pence from both sides of the neighbor doesn't have to look at something that isn't pretty and it's finished right. This which could be -- labor intensive is actually store but you can get four by eight sheets of lattice. Made out of cedar just like what you see here you just have to order of the heavy duty stock that cost about fifty dollars for four by eight -- and obviously we've just cut sections to put in. But the rest of the work that you're looking at here it's just been made on site the tops of the job. Of the fence have been cut on the table saw that there's a bevel that -- the weather runoff. The tops of the folks have been decorated with -- applied at half round beat -- molding that. We cut right here with a rather as well as the molding that you see here and the caps of the folks. But let's get together with Danny graffiti who's been working on the on the fence identify. The rain is interfering a little bit but this is really looking beautiful. Before we look at the detailing though the post that you've got in there."

" How far into the ground that you put those can put that in about three feet. And consider -- that which means that you just mixing Portland witness of dirt until thank them. And Brock looked at a -- of the post is pressure treated but it's been dressed out with the redwood. So that you end up with a very elegant looking both. How are we doing me the actual -- inches -- one side. Let's move on the other thing congress of it's almost left side of that side. There's no way -- ground around the whole perimeter ever each panelist that life which again is redwood has just been ripped the side. On the table saw flight then we take her sat up. And we -- at all so that we have you -- spacing on both lands that's a good tip. It did you just start putting them in on one side when he flies when you end up at the finish what you might have to rip a board down that. Perhaps an inch or less than a residue that's -- iron rule that we unveiled look cool side. We just factored in here. Again we're using that little -- right there was little else."

" OK now how do you nail the last one and Danny boy you don't this is should be just free floating -- exactly is gonna have room to expand and contract depending on the weather in the season and what really -- in place. Into the ground well that have to be put end. Around all four sides. This is put another section of trellis. That's just cut out of the four by eight sheet to fit into this arched. Section of rail. Lucky guy -- fit perfectly now react well that's because across the conference the bottom please thank him. And these again -- just tacked into place using one inch brad we're using the at stainless steel nails north custom. OK so you've got a little doubt that they're not quite as -- on -- a line as a blunt ends no conflict and put the blood."

" So they're pretty straightforward but what about putting the ground that goes. Under the arch the -- sense -- but those to have assistance in little things yeah. And you haven't put any curved cuts on that at all knowledge has been a rip down a Waterman and so we're gonna double up on it. OK and up into peso has -- a quarter inch it'll bend without. Without snapping in half and then you'll add a second -- it's also quarter inch that you've built up. Through the necessary thickness right -- move us together I hesitate to watch him. And one thing that I do want to look at is up. Capital that still hasn't been nailed down here this is interesting this is Danny's idea but he's he's run the grain. Of the -- in one direction and then there's the second board that's run in the other direction. So that if you think about it you're getting that action and extra strength by running the wood grain into opposing directions then of course it's just been dressed out with a half round applied all the way around the corner."

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