Final pictures from Oakland Township Twin Lakes Golf course deck job

Here is some final pictures of the deck we built at Twin Lakes golf sub. The deck is composite, with Fiberon horizon tropics in the rosewood color with a triple picture frame border. The center border course in picture frame border is Correct Deck CX in pebble color. The railings are DCL from Correct Deck CX in pebble color with Deckorators square estate balusters and deckorators baskets in bronze color. The railing post caps are from De-kor (little rondi) and they have low voltage lighting in them and there is De-kor millennium stair riser low voltage lights.

The De-kor little rondi post cap in antique bronze

The step treads are picture framed with the Fiberon horizon tropics rosewood with a Correct Deck cx pebble board in the inside . You can also see the De-kor Millennium riser lights

Triple picture frame border with the main deck boards running on a 45 degree angle

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Oakland Township MI Composite Deck

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Here is our latest project... A 400 sq. ft. composite deck on Twin Lakes golf course.

We are excited to build this deck, because we are using a brand new composite product by Fiberon called Horizon Tropics in the color rosewood. The rosewood color looks alot like the beautiful tropical hardwood Ipe. We also are using some very nice features we will get into as we progress.

Here is a before picture of the house

Here is the design

The decking is running on a 45 degree angle with triple picture frame border. The middle board of the triple picture frame border is Correct Deck CX pebble color which is also the color of the railings. The balusters are from Deckorators and are square with a diamond pattern baskets per each section, they are in a bronze color. The post caps are antique bronze Little Rondi's from Dekor and they are lighted.

Here is a couple of pictures of the framing

Here we just finished running the decking

Here you can see the two different composite boards that make up the triple picture frame border. The Middle pebble color board is the same color as the railings which we are trying to tie the railing and decking color in together with the trim and brick colors of the house

Here we have just install the rail posts and the blocking for the borders

Here is some pictures of where we are at now, we have just the steps to go and we are waiting for the landscaping/brick paving to be completed so we can finish the steps

We should be finished up next week so we should have the finished pictures coming soon

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Here is our latest project.. Two front porch replacements. The existing porches were just standard concrete with one pre-cast step down to a sidewalk. The rise on the single step was eight or nine inches, which was very hard to use for the homeowners being senior citizen's. So they wanted the front porches replaced and they wanted 2 steps with smaller rises.

On the first porch we tore out the existing concrete and replaced the concrete with standard concrete, black release and stamped the porch with a slate pattern and brick border

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We also stained the concrete with a acid stain, we did the brick border in a red color. On the slate pattern we tried to mimic the look of a grey slate. We used beige, green, grey and blue colors

We also added a guard rail from Timber Tech - Radiance Rail in the color Sandridge.

The Radiance rail is our favorite railing on the market

On the second porch the homeowner wanted the same thing just in a more budget approach. Their porch also had problems with the brick wall under the porch cracking and chipping off. So we tore out the cement porch and the brick wall under the slab and poured concrete for the wall under the cement porch

The stamp is random stone and it has the same brick border. The color is a dark sandstone with a dark brown release

The guard rail on this porch is Monarch Bermuda in the earth tone color

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Next we will be in Oakland Township MI on beautiful Twin Lakes Golf course building a composite deck. We are excited this will be the with the new Fiberon Horizon Tropics. Which it looks very similar as Ipe and has a 10 year fade and stain warranty!

New cedar deck in Southfield Mi

Here is a project we completed about a month ago

We started by tearing out a old treated pine deck

that was very old and out of code

The new deck is all cedar, 2x6 deck boards, with our typical builders rail with metal balusters, and cedar lattice.

We stained the deck after we completed the building portion. This is a benefit of choosing cedar for your deck, It can and should be stained right away. It is also a much more stable wood than treated pine ( It does not shrink very much).

In this picture you can see the 2x6 decking running on a 45 degree angle, framing is 16" on center with the 2x6 decking. You can also see the border board at the top of the steps, which overlaps the tiered fascia.

On this side of the deck there is a little bay area bump out for a grill Typical builders rail - 2x4 top and bottom rails, attached to the rail posts with a pocket hole attachment with a 2x6 deck board - cap board that is routered with a 1/2 round over bit.

On this side of the deck, the angle follows the driveway.

Another view of the bump out bay

Decking again running on a 45 degree angle.

All done

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Stamped and stained concrete

It has been awhile since I have updated this blog. My computer's video card crashed twice and Dell computer replaced my old computer with a new one, but it took awhile to get the new computer and to get everything transfered over from the old computer. Thank you Dell for the new computer Anyways back to the topic... Works has been a little slow. But we have been busy also Since we last updated we had just finished a Correct Deck CX composite deck. From that job we went onto to a stamped concrete job. The project was to remove a portion of a asphalt driveway that had been settling and replace with stamped concrete.

The interesting thing with this project was the settling issue we decided to dig down under the driveway to see what was going on to cause this collapsing of the driveway.

We end up digging out 15 tons of buried garbage ! There was 4 or 5 old hot water tanks, a washer, a complete rear end of a car with tires, a complete car engine and alot of metal debris.

We ended up filling a 30 yards dumpster with trash from under this driveway.

The color did not come out to good in these photo's

But we did a beige integral color with a charcoal release color. Then we stained the border a light brown and colored a few bricks in the stamped pattern to give some highlight the job turned out awesome looking and all the water issue they had were fixed. The concrete passed a big test a couple of weeks ago when we got about 7 inches of rain and it all ran off and there was no settling !

Here are a few better pictures of stained and stamped concrete. These pictures are from my father in-laws shop. The Dutch Mill.

Here you have a 8" textured border in a dark colored stain with a inside random stone stamp patern with different colored stained rocks

Here you have a brick border stained in a lighter color, inside the border there is a random stone stamp with every stone stain in different colors

We have also completed a couple of deck since the last update so I will update those project this week also Thank You for reading

Next Project 10 x 16 Correct Deck CX Composite in Auburn Hills MI

On this project we tore off the old decking and railings.

The frame was still good, sorry I forgot to take before pictures

Here is the design picture

The deck is Correct Deck CX composite. It has a single picture frame border, DCL railing, fascia, treads, and risers in Mahogany color, and the decking is in Pebble with Pebble lattice.

The DCL railing has Deckorators round metal balusters

In the picture below - I would like to point out the squash blocks under the center of the 2x4 DCL rail.

You would be surprised how many decks I have seen without the squash blocks installed.

Every railing I have seen without the squash blocks have sagged pretty bad.

Something so simply makes a big difference

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