Below you can see that they are working on the deck behind the master bedroom through what will later become the French doors there that open out onto the screened room.
This shows the guys getting the support post plumb before nailing it to the joist's and their frame above.
Here Brandon and Steve are marking where the joists will be attached.
As they finished for the day the back deck joists are about 75% of the way completed across the back. They had to wrap it up for the day and get their tools put away for the day (and for the week really).
The deck at the back is going to be somewhere near 16 feet from the ground. This is taken from the driveway area looking up toward the underneath side of the deck. As you can see there are a LOT of support posts around the house since the deck will go all the way around the house.
The bottoms of the support posts will be bolted to the concrete footers. By the way, I learned something today that I had not known for sure before since I had not been there when they poured the concrete footers for these posts. There had been iron re-bar left over and left on the job site by the company that poured the concrete footers for the basement walls. So, the crew working on the footers for the posts cut up the re-bar into short segments and used it in the concrete footers for the posts.
Maybe next week the temperatures will cool off a little bit. They have been consistently in the 105 to 106 range this week even up on the mountain. In fact, for nearly 2 weeks it has been over 100 every day. It was less brutal today since there were some clouds to keep the sun off.
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