How To Replace Part Of A Deck Board
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2015
- In this video, I show you how to replace a part of a deck board. This video is useful for people that want to replace a small portion of a whole board that they have on their deck. The process is simple, and I even show you how to double-brace the deck joists in the video! The double-braced joists will ensure that your new deck board is completely secure!
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The only thing I would add is that you might have suggested that viewers doing this operation purchase a can of "Cut and Seal" (at Depot) so they can "pressure treat" all the freshly cut surfaces to protect against water damage. :-) Thanks for the video!
Thank you, I'm using this technique with great success. With regard to removing the old screws, I found that I had to clear the hole in the middle of the screw as they were full of rubbish from years of weather. Once clear I then used a small ratchet with the right bit. The key thing was to initially try to tighten the screw, seems counter intuitive but it breaks the seal. After that it was a case of loosening with the ratchet and then a powered driver. This worked for about 99% of the screws and saved a lot of drilling out.
It's good advice for someone who only has pieces of scrap deck wood and cannot afford to buy new wood, but if you can afford it, you should replace the entire board.
If they can’t afford the wood, they likely won’t have the needed tools to do the job.
Nice technique that I will be using to repair my deck. Thank you for sharing and take care!
Pry up the end of the board, and use a speed square and circular saw to cut it straight at the middle of the joist. Fast and accurate.
Prying up the board you plan to keep may damage that board by creating larger openings where the screws or nails are holding it down enough to guarantee quick future rot.
So happy to have found this video. The deck board that I need to replace runs under the railing posts. Some contractors have told me I need to take off the whole railing to replace that board. And I thought of the same idea but was unsure if it was sound.
Dude, just replace the whole board. You could have been done in 5 minutes and it would have been better supported. A whole board is like 10 bucks!
The board that I need to replace runs under the post and/or the stairs. So either the post or the stairs need to be taken off with a lot of labor involved. Sothis solution is perfect for my situation.
Before the pandemic
@@elinorgalbraith35 Ahhh... the good old days. Replacing the whole board for me means buying 20 footers, which are not as easy to find, impossible to transport myself (requiring delivery) and are expensive as hell. I think I saw some for $40-$50 online.
Awesome. No stone unturned, through! Thank you so very much.
How did you cut the wood what is particular name of saw you have used.thanks
Great Explanation! Thanks!
All the keyboard rangers are saying replace the whole board but if there are people who doesn't have a big car to bring the whole long board from a store ? what should they do then
Simply get it delivered. Many DIY stores deliver nowadays. Failing that, just ask a mate or ask on Airtasker etc. So many ways to get stuff to your home if you cannot get it yourself.
Hauling a whole board is hard; that is why I opt to use this method.
Very clear. Thanks!
someone got a new ryobi set !!!
That board didn’t need replaced.
Had a few years left
Great job !!!
All that time spent... should have just replace the whole board..... structural strength!!
Excellent. I really can use this. Thanks.
Good video, thank you.
Excellent instructions!
This was super helpful! Thanks for posting!
Excellent video !!!!!!
I really like this video!😊😊😊
Thank You
Enlightening.
I was thinking this was a good idea until I saw this video. Lol
Excellent
Useful to see how you did it. I liked the use of off-cuts for bracing. It might be time consuming but when time's your own and wood costs $3.60 per linear foot, it's good economy. Thanks.
P.S. Aug 2021. See many comments criticising this video. Seek professional content / advice.
As others have mentioned, using a couple end grain scraps to support the ends of the 48 inch replacement deckboard was an absolutely terrible building practice and will fail quickly. There is so much wrong with building practices in this video, I’m in shock. I even began to wonder if it was satire. It is much better to have the butt ends supported by a joist. However, if you must use a scrap piece, please use 2x6 with at least 12”-16” in length with the wood grain running parallel to the grain of the joist. In other words, horizontally. Never install a scrap piece perpendicular to a joist to support decking. Think about how it would split. It would only a matter of time before it split and sheared off.
@@snowsurfr I hope watchers of this video read your sensible comments.
The guy never drilled a pilot hole first before putting a screw in. I think drilling a pilot hole is a common practice. Lol.
Until you step on those make shift braces and they drop down.
Thanks I'm doing mine tomorrow bit I have to replace a entire slab.
Replce the whole board!!
"The deckboard that I will be replacing."
Thanks for posting such a helpful video..u rock :)
Thanks.
You don't know what you're doing. Your blocking has the grain running the wrong way and will split with weight on t
What kind of machine you used to cut the wood?
Reciprocating saw
awesome
This is pretty bad advice. At $1.50 per linear foot for cedar, and less for pressure treated wood, first you should go ahead and replace the whole board. Then, buy the right tools, like a compound miter saw and circular saw. Or at least use a straight edge with the jigsaw so you get straight cuts. Next, if you're sistering the joist, you need to sister horizontally. Those sisters will just break off in a few years and someone will fall through. Unfortunately TH-cam allows people to represent bad information like they are experts.
Ok expert
Agreed!
Agreed. This video should not be on YT.
And use a speed square for fuck’s sake!
Question: Regarding "if you're sistering the joist, you need to sister horizontally", are you referring to the fact that at 6:44 he oriented the sister vertically and screwed into the end grain as others have pointed out, or is there another problem? I.e., if he had used an appropriately sized square-ish piece of wood rotated 90 degrees and screwed into the side instead of the end, would that have been sufficient?
Thank you so much!
thank you so much
This video is a joke right
This is absolutely the worst video I’ve seen on TH-cam.
Screwing into the end grain of your blocking 👎🏼
Half-assery at it's finest. Well done
I don't know what I just watched.
They put screws in my deck boards, over the years the screws heads have rusted & broken off, the ENDS near the house the board shakes when walked on, is this how I would repair that board? I know I will have to add extra wood because of the 3 screw holes.
A10TOES the same thing happened to me my deck is 25 years old what you will have to do is you will have to cut your deck boards out and then pry them up with a pry bar where your screw tops have been broken off and then replace your boards
Annette Joe-Thanks for that tip, I've watched a couple videos since & yeah I'm also gonna have to cut some blocks for support, my deck is 14 years old, 5 boards were totally replaced & at the ends, the wood support is not as solid as it was. I was told this deck would last a life time....my life time....LOL I also need to restain it again but yeah it gets the south & west sun, so it's getting rough, I've heard good things & bad about RESTORE, so I might try that since it has grit in it & this deck gets very slick in the winter months.
well, that's one way to do it.
You didn't mention the type of saw used to cut the board!
He used a reciprocating saw. You can also use an ocilating saw too.
pretty sure those horizontal screws he drilled into the makeshit joists will shear and somebodys foot is going through that "repair"
You must know some really fat people!
Just replace the whole board. Now I know what not to do.
Well I would have to do it his way because I can't fit a 16 ft board inside my car! LOL Not everyone has a truck or a friends with a truck.
When it the longest length length board you can buy, and it's only bad at the seam. Why not !
this video is not about deck boards. it is about delivering content for idiots who cant fogure out how to cut wood rofl
WARNING: IF YOU REALLY NEED DECK REPAIRED WATCH SOMETHING ELSE!!! WATCH ONLY FOR COMEDIC ENJOYMENT!!! DO NOT WATCH TO LEARN ANYTHING EXCEPT WHAT NOT TO DO!!! UNLESS OF COURSE YOUR TRYING TO MAKE SOMEONE LAUGH!!!
Sorry Buddy but you should’ve watched a DIY video (from someone whom actually knows what they’re doing) first... Now people that don’t know any better are going to copy all the mistakes you’ve made... In return those people as a whole will become dumber and worse off from when they started..!
Rated E for Effort
the flaw in this video is about the scab added to support the replacement board & that a section of treated 2x4 attached instead of grain splitting board piece would be better. Otherwise, it is good economy when lumber is so expensive.
Secretly narrated by Jonah Hill.
pretty much everything done incorrectly in this video. blocking to support ends was installed in wrong orientation for starters - these will split and become a safety hazard. why not pull up whole 2x6 and replace? i see this type of cheapo DIY repair all the time in decks that i overhauled / replaced. that said, the guy is pretty clear in what he says.
Darren Singer What else is wrong aside from the orientation of the blocking? I'm looking to repair some rot in my deck, and this approach is appealing because I can't easily transport new full length boards to where they need to go. (The existing boards are 20' long.)
Darren Singer I don't know why people only replace part of a deck board you may as well go and replace the whole deck board
ajchovanec if you want to replace partial boards, remove fasteners in area to cut, scribe line on midpoint of joist, then adjust cut depth of circular saw to 1.5”, then slowly lower saw blade into deck board. complete cut with multi-tool blade. be certain to ease edges of both the old and new boards with sander to account for slight variation in thickness of different aged boards. In practice, I would only rarely remove a mid section of a board, and would thus only be making a single cut as described above. NEVER install a short piece that only spans 2 or 3 joists - this is a safety issue that I see all the time. $5 extra will make it safe!
By u a speed square
Are you kidding me?!!! If your not gonna replace the whole board why wouldnt you cut it so its supported on both ends by the actual joists.
Amateur hour. I’ll never get this 11 minutes back.
I've watched several of these videos, and no one has mentioned placing the crown of the board up. Crown down allows water to soak into the center of the board, and rots quicker.
Totally. I was going to say that.
In the time you spent messing around with cutting out a small section, I could have replaced the entire board. You’ve gotta weigh material cost vs time value of your labor, and of course final results. Also, looks like that deck is short on proper maintenance overall. And get the proper tools. A reciprocating saw isn’t used to make finish cuts, lol.
Replace them all. Then stain the boards.
Can’t you just replace the entire board??
Small defects in decking like these can be fixed with exterior wood preservative and wood filler. Bondo has a 2 step product. Elmers product is highly rated.
Let people know the drill bit size you used and that the saw was a reciprocating saw. Good job just a bit more detail needed.
if u need to tell them what a reciprocating saw is, odds are they have no clue how to do the deck...your such a meathead warren,,lousy video.
This is a how not to video
Did you cut the wood with your teeth?
😂😂😂
No offence, but that's one of the worst jobs I've ever seen. Assume this guy isn't a professional. Firstly I wouldn't have replaced the board, it seemed to have no rot. If the board did need replacing then just replace the whole board. The cuts were not straight. The supports were not at all straight and using endgrain to screw the boards into etc etc etc....
OMG WTF did I just watch
What an atrocity, my eyes are bleeding. What did that deck do to deserve that?
Even i know this is bad advice. If you don't want to replace the whole board then cut it at the joist so the ends will be sitting on the joist. Not on some hack wood piece. Dude.....
how do you cut it at the joist without affecting the other end?
@@Vlican i would use an oscillating saw and cut straight down in the middle of the joist. But that was only if i couldn't replace the entire board.
thanks for the reply, i'm a complete novice and didn't even know such a tool existed lol!
@@Vlican anytime! It's a great tool for tricky cut outs. I have the dewalt one ($100).
Listen.... replace the full length board. Its actually easier and you wont lose strength.
You pay for the truck rental and we have a deal!
I am dumber now.for having watched this video
Sorry but that seemed like a pointless exercise 🤷♂️🇬🇧
Waste of time,just replace whole board
Beginners, do not do this. Terrible workmanship.
That method didn’t make any sense at all because all you had to do is go to the center of both joist and cut the wood out. Then take a measurement and replace the wood. Screwing scrap pieces of wood next to the joists really isn’t good way of doing that simply because you could make that area of the deck weak because you screwed scrap pieces of wood into both joist and over time people will step in that area weakening that spot and could possibly fall through there. And you should never screw into joist because that would definitely weaken them over time in the same area which would create a more bigger problem than the one you already had in the beginning. The method you showed people in this video is incorrect and looks like something a jackleg carpenter would do. That method is very dangerous. I’m not saying this in a disrespectful manner towards you but in hopes that no one gets hurt trying to do it that way.
Are you saying just cut the piece of wood out. Put in a new piece of wood and only screw it to the center joists? Are you saying that you don't need to do any additional bracing?