At the last section, towards the north, we initially put the veranda up over the original deck. When we rebuilt the deck, it did not end up at the same height, that means that the veranda height was out.. When I got up the ladder to work there, I found that we had a dip in the spouting, water was collecting there and did not run off properly. That meant that I had to cut the posts on that side to allow proper runoff. The last one, on the corner by the down pipe, was cut three times. Remember, although the posts are only bolted to the top beam, each of them has got an 8 mm rod inserted at the bottom to strengthen the original repair and also to locate them securely to the deck. That makes the cutting a bit tricky. After all is in place, I drill an additional 6 mm hole through the post into the bottom beam at an angle. Then a 6 mm rod gets hammered in. The combination of the two pins secures the post against wind It is looking good now.
We are planning to put a double beam over the extended deck, with only two heavy duty posts at the ends. Those are not finished yet. We are also planning to build a wind break to the western side, but that will be much later. That will replicate the original wind break. We also still need to cover the sides of the deck with fibre board.
We did receive the expected letter from Council. There were a lot of applications, but we were given 80% of our actual cost. Thank you Lord. Now we can breathe again.
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