{"id":8917,"date":"2025-04-20T17:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T22:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=8917"},"modified":"2025-04-20T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T22:04:50","slug":"deck-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/20\/deck-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Deck Demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sarah and I finished demolishing the aging and no-longer-safe second story deck behind the house today. We have plans to replace it with a larger, safer deck. This may take a while. But taking the old one down was an important first step. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that Sarah did the bulk of the work on this job (she’s the handy one around here), but I’m proud to say that I contributed more labor than usual. Prying the boards up was tough work. We could use a longer crowbar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note the closeup picture that shows how rotted the joists were. (The previous owners clearly added wood to try to shore things up.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah and I finished demolishing the aging and no-longer-safe second story deck behind the house today. We have plans to replace it with a larger, safer deck. This may take a while. But taking the old one down was an important first step. Note that Sarah did the bulk of the work on this job … Continue reading Deck Demolished<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,83],"tags":[100,51,139,114],"class_list":["post-8917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-sarah","tag-house","tag-pictures","tag-renovations","tag-sarah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8918,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8917\/revisions\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}