I would have salvaged that deck 100%. That deck is in solid shape. Just as he did, I would also take out the top seats and store them somewhere in the back yard to be processed later. Take off at least 10 boards at a time, flip them and resurface the back of the wood applying wood putty on the holes to sand them. I would treat them with 2 coats of wood oil and reinstall them. I would do the same for the benches. I restored my deck which was way worse than that one reusing the back side. I invested on deck screws, sand paper and wood putty and deck wood oil thus saving thousands in a time when wood is premium at big box stores. Good luck to all of you out there doing this project and excellent work building that deck Everyday Home Repairs.
I would love to have seen that, I see all this videos about salvaging and repairing old or rotten wood. What is a good one, there are so many and I don’t want to end up wasting money. If you have a thought please let me know.
@@Goat4964 I became very creative when the wood prices started soaring so I carefully uninstalled all the top boards. I then sanded them and used the wood dust to sprinkle over the glue I put on the holes and indentations. I bought an oil type deck sealer so it could seep into the wood planks and the structure and simply installed the brand new boards again. I used the back side of the boards since it was in excellent condition. It is still holding up to this day.
@hill4472, did you do anything to treat the original tops of the boards that were weathered? Or did you only treat the backside that became the new topside?
It does not look like that deck is rotten. Could have easily sanded it down & painted it. Would have saved a bunch of lumber and money. Despite that, thanks for making this video there is definitely a lot of good information in here.
Thanks for the kind words. More to come on this project in the coming weeks as we put on the new deck boards and build up the planter boxes and seating. 👍
He may not be the guy to give that particular advice. No contractor waste wood of that condition. Made me shiver but rich guys can do what they want right? Lol
I have a large deck (built in the 80s or 90s), it's still sturdy and though mine looks better than the one on your video it needs rebuilding and your great video has given me the SOBER courage to do it myself. Great Video and Thanks.
Wow THANK YOU SO MUCH for not having music on your time lapse!! I can not tell you how annoying it is when people play generic house/dubstep music to their video. So informational as well, really great job! Keep it up!
My deck is quite large was going to tackle in sections . It’s also fairly high off the ground . In that situation would you remove a couple boards and replace them and repeat or still strip the whole deck first
Around here, we have a bulk trash pick-up day that will take that sort of stuff for you every other other week. For free. Or if I didn't want to wait that long, there are drop off points, like the one you went to, but it's free to drop off. (Tallahassee, FL)
Good video. I found it after demo the floor of my Mom's deck. It was rotten very bad butbthe joists were good. I started demoing with a sledge hammer and a flat pry bar. Till my uncle came up. He had talked to another reletive that does contracring. Tip to to remove the boards was 2 2x4s one as a brace one as a lever. I had a somewhat good 2x4 for the brace and used a 5' piece of angle iron for the lever. Went much easier than the flat bar and i did not have to by a tool i probably will never use again
What if the decking is secured to the beams with decking screws? What is the best removal method? Also, what about planing the decking? Would that be a good option for recycling / reusing the decking?
You should always cover your waste load. One board flying out of the bed of your pickup truck, is a major issue. You are risking lives here man. If a board hops out of your truck bed you could cause a major accident. I hope you no longer make this major mistake. Take care.
not sure if you mentioned...you can also call for a roll-off dumpster etc. seems like around $340 for 20 yard for about a week. you fill it..then they come back by and haul it away.. it's more expensive than doing it yourself, but they take it away...you keep working..
Hey Fred, not a bad option especially if you have more things to toss from your home/projects. 20 yard dumpsters are $500 around me. Maybe I need to start negotiating a bit more 🤔
You know, I was actually going to watch this 3 part series until all of the begging for likes and subscribes throughout the video which I know is going to lead into the other two videos of begging for likes and subscribers and there's nothing worse than begging for those and it gets old.... so, I will not be watching the rest of this video or the other 2..
Were there nails or screws holding down your deck boards? I'm replacing deck boards that are held down with screws. I'm thinking to grind off the screw head and pull the board, then cut down what's left of the screw to the surface of the joist leaving. I really enjoyed watching parts 1-3. Thank you!
My deck boards are caving in from the wood under rotten due to water. What would you recommend using to reinforce the deck boards, I’ll likely have to replace all the rotten boards but I don’t know what to put under them to replace the beams or “joist” idk what there name is.
Can you tell me what the job cost? Or a rough estimate. I'm in a similar situation. I got a deck that needs to be rebuilt. Looking at getting it done in the spring.
At the end of this video th-cam.com/video/JQm_kOreYNI/w-d-xo.html which covers the same deck project but is the part 3 of the series I go over the cost at the end being $2,275 for a 336 sq ft deck. This is just for materials using pressure treated deck boards. If I were to hire my deck out I would guess the total cost of material and labor would be around $8,000 - $12,000 for the job. There are many factors that can increase or decrease your project cost but those are the numbers for my project. Best of luck and make sure you get multiple quotes.
Do you have a video or short explaining "when is it time to replace decking board?" How much organic growth is too much? How do you know when board is too water logged? How much splintering is too much? etc Warped/sagging, broken, soggy wood is clear but before that point... When is removing organic growth, good scrubbing, careful pressure washing, sanding (if needed?), & re-staining not advised & new decking recommended instead? Thanks for your content. This is my favorite home DIY channel.
Are the heads of the screws still in good shape? If so, I would use my compact nut driver and just quickly back out each screw or at least as many as I could. Let me know how it goes.
Hey man do you remember those looney tune cartoons as a kid when you were growing up? Your channel reminds of that mexican rodent Speedy Gonzales. Man I love speedy not even slyvestor the black cat could catch him. Anyways great channel. Could you imagine if people could move that fast in real life we could probably get 10x more stuff done and make more money if humans could move that fast. In the future I heard it might be very possible when you have artificial intelligence merging with human beings.
When demolishing the deck, only thing I would say is try to hammer the nails flat before you begin hauling it off. It is a hazard to you and people at the landfill. Also, you are NEVER supposed to burn treated wood. It is a environmental and human health hazard.
2 thoughts. 1. you suggested possibly taking old deck where wood is burned. Pressure treated wood should not be burned due to the chemicals in the wood. 2. if you started the floor tear out at the house and worked your way out, you always have intact floor boards to use with the crow bar for prying leverage and it saves jumping in and out of the framing. enjoyed the video
Pressure treated wood is now usually just a simple teat treatment, and not injected with a lot of antirot chemicals. It's why HT boards are safe to use with vegetable crops now
Pretty simple. Our transfer station is a bit cheaper here in RI luckily. One word of advice…get some safety glasses on! Like the gloves but imagine life without eyes my friend..one wrong flick of a nail, board, etc..food for thought. (25 years+ in construction/industrial building field)
I’m fixing my parents deck and I originally thought it was just going to be a deck board swap. Turns out the frame was rotten, damn that sucks. Start pulling the frame and some of the posts are rotten. So what was thought (and planned) as a simple week project turned into digging out concrete supported posts that had been left to rot since the 80’s. I’m 26 with no experience in carpentry other than natural ability and what I can find online. Dug out old posts and re-cemented them. But I’m in over my head. I can swim but damnnnnn
My deck is hilariously bad and built by an absolute, ummm, well, moron. Seriously I've never seen anyone ever cut all the roof support posts and shove the railings in-between them. The railings have rotted so bad that they are literally like paper mache to the touch. The housing market was so nuts even with that and a bunch of other things the house needed they still got full asking price for house. A price that would normally be for if all the corrections were done.
Dang. That looks so much better than mine. I step through one. Stuck. 9:00 at night, no phone….🤦🏼♀️ Anyway. Time to replace. Cresant Bill Bar. Game changer! I am a 64 year old widow. I removed it all and replaced that. No salvaging this stuff. Joist was in good shape. I still have 2 sections to work on next. Can’t find anyone to come so this, and I work cheap. Next is 16 x 12. Buy that bull bar. My first dee was 5’ off the ground. Lol.
I did have separation on the corner due to a tree falling from hurricane Zeta. I had a friend come help me. I had the right idea, just could t do it by myself. Yep. It was a woman…. Where are the guys around here??? Watching part 2 now. Tips before my part two. Treated wood is in my garage now. 😢
Kind of an idealistic deck to remove. Still helpful tips, but not all / most decks are not rectangular in shape and held together with nails... Mine was held with old + screws, most with bad heads or will break inside as soon as the impact driver touches them... Let's just say it took more than a sledgehammer and prybar to remove those lol (Saws all with medium metal demo blades, grinder with cut off wheel etc...) Wood boards could be donated for free on craigslist if you are around a metro area.
Hey Ricky, I have only done the removal part this past weekend and since I have a truck my cost is only $175 for material disposal at the transfer station. More videos to come in the next few weeks. I need to do some work on the structure then replacing the decking with new pressure treated boards. I will make sure I add my costs to those videos as well.
Great video. My deck is 12X12. We began with bare ground after tearing out all the previous rotted out deck. First we strategically placed nine concrete bases. Upon that we ran 2X6 es. All wood is pressure treated. Atop those boards we added 2X4 s 16” apart. On top we placed composite fake wood decking. Top layer in place with hidden metal fasteners. et vala! Good looking life time deck.
I’m working on deck here in Sept, now October, replaced six 16 foot long cedar pieces, sanded, power washed, washed with mold removal stuff, borrowed some tools, all in all I salvaged the deck, replaced only a handful of large pieces, but cost including primer paint? Rented truck, Gonna be about 400 bux, Not cheap! Cant even imagine what it would cost if I replaced it all, I’d say at least 3000? Just on material
Great video. I’m taking my parents deck apart and needed a little guidance.
Best of luck on the project!
I would have salvaged that deck 100%. That deck is in solid shape. Just as he did, I would also take out the top seats and store them somewhere in the back yard to be processed later. Take off at least 10 boards at a time, flip them and resurface the back of the wood applying wood putty on the holes to sand them. I would treat them with 2 coats of wood oil and reinstall them. I would do the same for the benches. I restored my deck which was way worse than that one reusing the back side. I invested on deck screws, sand paper and wood putty and deck wood oil thus saving thousands in a time when wood is premium at big box stores. Good luck to all of you out there doing this project and excellent work building that deck Everyday Home Repairs.
I would love to have seen that, I see all this videos about salvaging and repairing old or rotten wood. What is a good one, there are so many and I don’t want to end up wasting money. If you have a thought please let me know.
@@Goat4964 I became very creative when the wood prices started soaring so I carefully uninstalled all the top boards. I then sanded them and used the wood dust to sprinkle over the glue I put on the holes and indentations. I bought an oil type deck sealer so it could seep into the wood planks and the structure and simply installed the brand new boards again. I used the back side of the boards since it was in excellent condition. It is still holding up to this day.
Dang I wish I had that type of time but I work out of town.
@hill4472, did you do anything to treat the original tops of the boards that were weathered? Or did you only treat the backside that became the new topside?
@@hjmattos I sanded both sides and treated both sides before I reinstalled them. They are still going strong.
It does not look like that deck is rotten. Could have easily sanded it down & painted it. Would have saved a bunch of lumber and money. Despite that, thanks for making this video there is definitely a lot of good information in here.
Your explanation & tips are so helpful to someone like me, who is learning in preparation for my own DIY project. Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words. More to come on this project in the coming weeks as we put on the new deck boards and build up the planter boxes and seating. 👍
What's the easiest way to make a
Large deck smaller
You touched on, but did not explain, how to determine when a porch deck is worth saving and when it is too far gone to refinish.
Usually when someone has put their foot through accidentally in my experience.
@@matthewwright57 🤣
He may not be the guy to give that particular advice. No contractor waste wood of that condition. Made me shiver but rich guys can do what they want right? Lol
@parochial2356 I have the same question
Besides wasting a ton of good wood. Good vid
I have a large deck (built in the 80s or 90s), it's still sturdy and though mine looks better than the one on your video it needs rebuilding and your great video has given me the SOBER courage to do it myself. Great Video and Thanks.
Best of luck on your project!
Wow THANK YOU SO MUCH for not having music on your time lapse!! I can not tell you how annoying it is when people play generic house/dubstep music to their video. So informational as well, really great job! Keep it up!
Glad I could help! 👍
POV : nobody asked for this but you got it
To much time in the video dealing with the garbage
My deck is quite large was going to tackle in sections . It’s also fairly high off the ground . In that situation would you remove a couple boards and replace them and repeat or still strip the whole deck first
Mt tip for demo-. Use a deck wrecker a special decking removal pry tool
Around here, we have a bulk trash pick-up day that will take that sort of stuff for you every other other week. For free. Or if I didn't want to wait that long, there are drop off points, like the one you went to, but it's free to drop off. (Tallahassee, FL)
That is a pretty awesome setup!
Do you contract work? thanks.
Good video. I found it after demo the floor of my Mom's deck. It was rotten very bad butbthe joists were good. I started demoing with a sledge hammer and a flat pry bar. Till my uncle came up. He had talked to another reletive that does contracring. Tip to to remove the boards was 2 2x4s one as a brace one as a lever. I had a somewhat good 2x4 for the brace and used a 5' piece of angle iron for the lever. Went much easier than the flat bar and i did not have to by a tool i probably will never use again
What if the decking is secured to the beams with decking screws? What is the best removal method?
Also, what about planing the decking? Would that be a good option for recycling / reusing the decking?
So sad about the planter boxes! Those definitely could have been saved !
You should always cover your waste load. One board flying out of the bed of your pickup truck, is a major issue. You are risking lives here man. If a board hops out of your truck bed you could cause a major accident. I hope you no longer make this major mistake. Take care.
not sure if you mentioned...you can also call for a roll-off dumpster etc. seems like around $340 for 20 yard for about a week. you fill it..then they come back by and haul it away.. it's more expensive than doing it yourself, but they take it away...you keep working..
Hey Fred, not a bad option especially if you have more things to toss from your home/projects. 20 yard dumpsters are $500 around me. Maybe I need to start negotiating a bit more 🤔
You know, I was actually going to watch this 3 part series until all of the begging for likes and subscribes throughout the video which I know is going to lead into the other two videos of begging for likes and subscribers and there's nothing worse than begging for
those and it gets old.... so, I will not be watching the rest of this video or the other 2..
I think you should remove 1/2 the old then put down new, then pull up and replace remaining half, that way the old frame stays square.
Pressure wash, full prime and 2 coat and you could get another 10 years out of that deck
That deck did not need to be replaced.
Were there nails or screws holding down your deck boards? I'm replacing deck boards that are held down with screws. I'm thinking to grind off the screw head and pull the board, then cut down what's left of the screw to the surface of the joist leaving. I really enjoyed watching parts 1-3. Thank you!
Are the heads still in good condition where you could back out the majority of the old screws?
That wood wasn't that bad and could have been sanded and stained.
Have you ever tried the DemoDek for removal?
My deck boards are caving in from the wood under rotten due to water. What would you recommend using to reinforce the deck boards, I’ll likely have to replace all the rotten boards but I don’t know what to put under them to replace the beams or “joist” idk what there name is.
What if my deck is unleveled? What can I do to level it ?
Can you tell me what the job cost? Or a rough estimate. I'm in a similar situation. I got a deck that needs to be rebuilt. Looking at getting it done in the spring.
At the end of this video th-cam.com/video/JQm_kOreYNI/w-d-xo.html which covers the same deck project but is the part 3 of the series I go over the cost at the end being $2,275 for a 336 sq ft deck. This is just for materials using pressure treated deck boards. If I were to hire my deck out I would guess the total cost of material and labor would be around $8,000 - $12,000 for the job. There are many factors that can increase or decrease your project cost but those are the numbers for my project. Best of luck and make sure you get multiple quotes.
@@EverydayHomeRepairs thank you
Do you have a video or short explaining "when is it time to replace decking board?" How much organic growth is too much? How do you know when board is too water logged? How much splintering is too much? etc
Warped/sagging, broken, soggy wood is clear but before that point... When is removing organic growth, good scrubbing, careful pressure washing, sanding (if needed?), & re-staining not advised & new decking recommended instead?
Thanks for your content. This is my favorite home DIY channel.
I see your deck was held together by nails. Mine is with screws, would I take off the decking differently because of the screws?
Are the heads of the screws still in good shape? If so, I would use my compact nut driver and just quickly back out each screw or at least as many as I could. Let me know how it goes.
If the deck is old and rotten the screw heads are mostly no good. Also people use ring shank nails. How to best handle?
Hey man do you remember those looney tune cartoons as a kid when you were growing up? Your channel reminds of that mexican rodent Speedy Gonzales. Man I love speedy not even slyvestor the black cat could catch him. Anyways great channel. Could you imagine if people could move that fast in real life we could probably get 10x more stuff done and make more money if humans could move that fast. In the future I heard it might be very possible when you have artificial intelligence merging with human beings.
What would you charge for a deck removal?
When demolishing the deck, only thing I would say is try to hammer the nails flat before you begin hauling it off. It is a hazard to you and people at the landfill. Also, you are NEVER supposed to burn treated wood. It is a environmental and human health hazard.
2 thoughts. 1. you suggested possibly taking old deck where wood is burned. Pressure treated wood should not be burned due to the chemicals in the wood. 2. if you started the floor tear out at the house and worked your way out, you always have intact floor boards to use with the crow bar for prying leverage and it saves jumping in and out of the framing. enjoyed the video
Pressure treated wood is now usually just a simple teat treatment, and not injected with a lot of antirot chemicals. It's why HT boards are safe to use with vegetable crops now
Good tear out work for just one guy, cool to see you working so hard. Good job
Pretty simple. Our transfer station is a bit cheaper here in RI luckily. One word of advice…get some safety glasses on! Like the gloves but imagine life without eyes my friend..one wrong flick of a nail, board, etc..food for thought. (25 years+ in construction/industrial building field)
You would look more professional with a DEMO-DEK tool....... It would save you days.
❤ OMG IT SHOULD BE A CRIME TO BE THAT GORGEOUS LOL You do all that work yourself without any help ?
NYC would have been about $800.00 disposal fee.
I’m fixing my parents deck and I originally thought it was just going to be a deck board swap. Turns out the frame was rotten, damn that sucks. Start pulling the frame and some of the posts are rotten. So what was thought (and planned) as a simple week project turned into digging out concrete supported posts that had been left to rot since the 80’s. I’m 26 with no experience in carpentry other than natural ability and what I can find online. Dug out old posts and re-cemented them. But I’m in over my head. I can swim but damnnnnn
What a shock when you find out your repair man brings loads of the old board to his grandparents and burns it in the huge backyard.😮
My deck is hilariously bad and built by an absolute, ummm, well, moron. Seriously I've never seen anyone ever cut all the roof support posts and shove the railings in-between them. The railings have rotted so bad that they are literally like paper mache to the touch. The housing market was so nuts even with that and a bunch of other things the house needed they still got full asking price for house. A price that would normally be for if all the corrections were done.
Any tips on how to remove decking going in opposite direction and the ends under the J channel of siding. Sawzall?
Glad I found your channel -- very well-instructed.
Dang. That looks so much better than mine. I step through one. Stuck. 9:00 at night, no phone….🤦🏼♀️ Anyway. Time to replace. Cresant Bill Bar. Game changer! I am a 64 year old widow. I removed it all and replaced that.
No salvaging this stuff. Joist was in good shape. I still have 2 sections to work on next. Can’t find anyone to come so this, and I work cheap. Next is 16 x 12. Buy that bull bar. My first dee was 5’ off the ground. Lol.
I did have separation on the corner due to a tree falling from hurricane Zeta. I had a friend come help me. I had the right idea, just could t do it by myself. Yep. It was a woman…. Where are the guys around here??? Watching part 2 now. Tips before my part two. Treated wood is in my garage now. 😢
can anyone please PM me if you have knowledge of deck repairs????
Kind of an idealistic deck to remove. Still helpful tips, but not all / most decks are not rectangular in shape and held together with nails...
Mine was held with old + screws, most with bad heads or will break inside as soon as the impact driver touches them... Let's just say it took more than a sledgehammer and prybar to remove those lol (Saws all with medium metal demo blades, grinder with cut off wheel etc...)
Wood boards could be donated for free on craigslist if you are around a metro area.
What about rusted screws? Did that one really have nails? 😂
Do you have to get a permit to replace rotted boards?
How much did cost this project, good work !
Hey Ricky, I have only done the removal part this past weekend and since I have a truck my cost is only $175 for material disposal at the transfer station. More videos to come in the next few weeks. I need to do some work on the structure then replacing the decking with new pressure treated boards. I will make sure I add my costs to those videos as well.
Everyday Home Repairs thanks for the video keep the good work
ReStore will take it for free if wood in useable condition
Really helpful and you describe the process so efficiently and easy to understand. Many thanks
Need a video doing this on a second floor deck. Easy to do what standing on the ground. I guess it's basically the same.
What about if the joists are rotted?
Or use the old deck to make raised beds.
dont plant veggies in pt wood....chemicals...but great for flowers
@@jfkesq the wood isn't pressure treated. Also, I made boxes with them and then wrapped them in plastic just Incase.
Don't deck screws destroy joists if you just pry off?
I love your videos
I burned my old deck.
Yeah, the drawback of living in town with a HOA.
Damn you are the fastest worker I've ever seen
And a case of beer
No railing
Good working
Focusing on a what?!
Great video. My deck is 12X12. We began with bare ground after tearing out all the previous rotted out deck. First we strategically placed nine concrete bases. Upon that we ran 2X6 es. All wood is pressure treated. Atop those boards we added 2X4 s 16” apart. On top we placed composite fake wood decking. Top layer in place with hidden metal fasteners. et vala! Good looking life time deck.
Option 3: Dump it in the woods. It's natural anyway.
I’m working on deck here in Sept, now October, replaced six 16 foot long cedar pieces, sanded, power washed, washed with mold removal stuff, borrowed some tools, all in all I salvaged the deck, replaced only a handful of large pieces, but cost including primer paint? Rented truck, Gonna be about 400 bux, Not cheap! Cant even imagine what it would cost if I replaced it all, I’d say at least 3000? Just on material
Nice, work keeping what you could 👊
What truck?