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Originally Posted by flatbutt
Soooo tired of doing this every year.[...]Sigh...short of replacing the wood with plastic, any ideas?
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Well, I was where you were. Every DAMN year. After a particularly demanding annual fix-it, I finally came to the end of my deck-refurbishing rope.
So I yanked the whole thing out and put in pavers, and over the top I put a pergola. The grape vines are now growing up over the pergola in a very satisfactory fashion, and the pavers look great. It was not an easy or cheap DIY, but the great thing was that the pergola is free-standing, so no permit required here for building it, and no concrete pour for the patio, so no permit for that, either. I did it all myself over the course of the summer, from demo to final coat of urethane on the pergola. The hardest part, IMO, was the excavation for the paver bed. That was a serious PITA, and hard on my office-worker muscles. But I really like the results.
I was going to go with plastic, but at the very end of the shopping process, the wife and I were invited over to a her co-worker's house, and he had just put in pavers...