Home Projects Vacations

The thrill of victory & the agony of da feet, da back...
Patios, fences, decks, finished basements, landscaping - there's not much the Broke Homeowners haven't tried their hand at. We're sure you can relate to extra trips to the hardware store, extra trips to the garage or basement for additional tools, budget overruns, schedule overruns, delayed implementations, and of course, long overdue successes.

Join us as we peruse some of our Home Improvement Projects.


Sunday, July 17, 2005

Composite deck

New home, new backyard relaxing place. This time, it's a deck.

Trips to Home Improvement Centers: 15

It's been a while since we undertook a project of this magnitude but a 5' drop out the back door mandated we get on this project pretty quick. Building a multi-level deck is challenging enough let alone having to work within the confines of incorporating a hot tub on a cement slab.

Weeks worth of post-hole digging, months of substructure building and back-ordered materials waiting.

It was all worth it in the end, though!

The last photo is obviously the finished product and was taken a summer later. The skirt did not go on the first summer-it was an addition the second summer.