Deck started and more trim work gets done

After hanging the fire door between the garage and the house, the trim crew then wrapped the vertical steel column in our great room in wood. This column and the beams in the background will be stained the same color as the rest of our trim. We needed this column because of the length of the roof span that is unsupported by interior walls. The warm glow in this photo is caused by the painters' lights. (Click on photos for a larger view)


In this photo, part of the decking crew screws down the wood flooring. The wood we used is Sinker Cypress, which is from Cypress logs that were cut 100 or more years ago and sank to the river bottoms while being floated downriver to the saw mills. This submerged wood is being reclaimed due to the high quality of the wood. It was the trees with the heaviest and most dense wood that sank to the bottom, so the reclaimed wood is exceptionally hard and durable. The decking crew is also finding that for those boards that are a little bowed, it is very hard to bend the boards into a straight line so they can be nailed or screwed into place.