Local Ace here is the only place I can get Thoroseal in a bag. He keeps two on the shelf. If I buy one, takes about a week and it is restocked. When I did the cistern, I bought two. Took about a week and he had two more on the shelf.
Lowes & HD are right there in town with ACe for me. Ace built a covered outdoor drive through lumberyard ~5yrs ago and they stock far superior product than the box stores- which have their place in stocking certain hardware and plumbing at a more reasonable price. Not to take the thread on a tangent( as I’m sitting idle in the rain again) Lowes and HD carved their way into the home improvement sector by hiring professionals to work when their normal jobs were slow, so you had a knowledge base to coach DIY folks and they could pick up jobs when folks were overwhelmed. They decided paying decent money for that wasn’t meeting the bottom line and reverted to min wage mass hiring root out the worst rinse & repeat. Every time I’m in either box store and overhear an unanswerable question I try to steer the shopper to the right area. If I’m in Ace and no one can find what I’m after you don’t get blown off. There’s three other people ready to get you to the register, or it’s an honest we don’t have that.
My local Ace is the same way, they stock pretty much anything I need. Usually just one of the uncommon items, but they almost never let me down. Just know that it will cost around 20% more than the box stores.
So, does the Camo system somehow allow for the replacement of a single board not at an edge? My recent experiences with the quality of lumber would make me think twice about any installation that didn't allow for that.
Yeah, I find I know the location of things in our local HD store better than many of the employees. I've actually pulled customers aside after they spoke with employees to direct them to what they were looking for.
You're right. It seems the screws are still accessible from the top once adjacent boards are installed. Great idea, great system.
So Friday afternoon it stayed dry for a change and sunnny again today until just now a storm blew through. GF wanted to bring one of the tables up I’m sure it will be in my way tomorrow. Going to order more decking Monday as stupid me figured the long span at 28’ not the extra cantilever 2’ for full 30’ plus the KDAT is 5-1/8” as opposed to normal 2x6 5.5”. All adds up to being short ~10-12 boards
Doesn’t look like much progress. Got the stair landing posts set and finished that framing and bracing. 45 breezeway is done and couple more perimeter boards. A sampling of the railing before we are being blessed with more rain....
Thanks. I like the clean finished look they give and not much off standard wood baluster pricing when you buy bulk. Just need to trim the posts and install rail cap decking when that arrives. Note: don’t leave the box of black balusters in the baking sun and attempt to install with bare hands. I was worrying youngsters would be burning their hands, but they don’t absorb heat nearly as bad when vertical
Got the right side railing and posts in this morning. Stair landing built on Wednesday and had the stringers ready to cut before it rained... Stringers cut and set Thursday then started on the small box step below before it rained again.... Finished decking the box step yesterday morning then added mid span 4x4’s to the stairs and since I’m a glutton for punishment poured a few more bags of concrete for those. Cut the small stair stingers this morning and set and leveled those on pavers. Sorry for limited pic updates this week I’ve gotten 5-6hrs of work in each day before the afternoon monsoons have set in not the normal afternoon pop ups these are training lines of turd floatah storms- getting really frustrated that I’m not done yet.
Shoot, by the sound of these “frog stranglers” you’re enduring down there, I’d say you’re doing pretty darned awesome!
