Your Doing What Frist?!?!?!?!?

Ok so I know you must be asking yourself "why would you build a deck first, shouldn't that be the last thing you build?" On most projects I would agree that decks are last but to gut a Spartan on the top of a mountain is different. You need a place to work and inside the trailer is not always an option. Space is limited and in our case, floor that is not rotten is limited. So to us it made sense, besides it is our getaway and we bought the place for the views so why not enjoy them during the project. I can tell you that a cold adult beverage (beer or wine) sitting on the deck watching the sun set is one of life's little pleasures.

So on a warm June day My wife and I went up and started the process of leveling the spartan. We used the original instructions as our guide.

The trailer was sitting on it old tires and the tongue jack. So I filled the tires up as best we could to get a reference height and using the instructions placed 8 jacks under the trailer.

The following weekend we gathered up or kids and headed to the local big box lumber yard to load up on supplies and headed out.

My two boys turned out to be expert deck builders by the end of the adventure and we now have a deck that runs the entire length of the trailer and 12 feet out from the trailer (can you say deck party?).

On the next installment we will discuss why this project is taking so long.