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Deck Part 2
2005-10-06 |
Begin demolition! Well, almost. First I had to prop up the roof so that it didn't fall down - go boom. I used two boards
under each corner rather than the traditional one per corner. Call me crazy, but I wasn't in the mood to test Murphy and his
cursed law.Side note: In England, their equivilant of Murphy's Law is Sod's Law. There are several uses of the
word "sod" as a result. Some examples include...
sod about / aroundsod-allsoddingsod it!sod offsod this for a game of soldiers!sod this for a
lark!sod you!
Imagine replacing all those with Murphy instead of Sod. You would sound silly, wouldn't
you? I tried for one day, using just a crow-bar, to break apart the concrete slab. Then, I decided I'd need a
sledge hammer. The sledge hammer made short work of breaking up the slab. 'fer and I had a great time busting it
apart! That boy swings a mean hammer. The hardest part was breaking the cement off of the supporting rebar. I'm not sure
how they originally got that slab into place, but I don't think I'd want that job.
Watch that first step
Dad, you're not going to leave it like this, right?
From BBCK's point of view
Not a bad start, right? This being Saturday, I was nowhere near done. We were just getting warmed up! The next step was to
tear down that wall Mr. Gorbachev! I have this grand idea to make an outdoor fireplace near one of the sides of the deck, so
I wanted to save as much of the bricks as I possibly could. That kind of takes the fun out of demolition, but not entirely.
There was an odd mix of bricks making up the back porch. There was the red brick which made up the face of the structure.
Behind that there was a wall of 4X8 cinder blocks above grade. Below grade, there were at least two layers of 8X8 cinder
blocks. Oddly, the area near the stairs was made up of 8X8 blocks both below and above grade. We were able to save a great
deal of each type of brick/blocks. I'm looking forward to learning how to lay brick and making my very own backyard
fireplace. I do need to find a source of firebrick, though.
  
Bricks, bricks, bricks.
'fer and I developed a little game out of
necessity where he would stand on one side of the wall and I would stand on the other side. Taking turns, we would
donkey-kick the wall; him, then me; him, then me; him, then me until the part we were kicking would break free from the remaining structure. It was both fun, and effective. We got about 3/4 of the way done when the pizza fairy brought dinner. So, we ate.
 
Mmmmm pizza
Tired and full belly, or stoned? You be the judge!
We finished with the demolition on Saturday leaving bricks strewn about the lawn and a pit full of broken jagged remnants of the back porch. We did attach a couple of 2X6 boards from the back door to the ground beyond the pit so that the dog could get out to do her business. Of course, she refused to use it, preferring to jump down into the pit of sharp edges and metal objects.
 
Ready for construction
On Sunday, I filled in the pit of death with dirt that
I dug from the part of my back yard where it abruptly changes height from low to high in hopes of eventually raking that area
smooth and creating a gradual slope rather than the drop off that existed in the past.
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'fer Fri Oct 07 02:01:36 AM 
and the sledge is my friend 
if my dads back didn't hurt today we proably would have finished it but oh well another day will come.
BigBro Thu Oct 06 03:39:49 PM 
BizB Thu Oct 06 01:55:04 PM 
sopops Thu Oct 06 01:43:27 PM 
Talix18 Thu Oct 06 11:06:33 AM 
Betty Boop Thu Oct 06 10:42:36 AM 
