Here's the reference deckboard, as straight as we can make it. Once that was secure, I could use ½-inch spacers and a board-bender to keep everything parallel. I secure the boards with enough screws, and leave the rest til later--one evening I listened to an entire Giants game (from Colorado) until it became too dark to see....
Prefabricating the support assemblies made for nice bursts of progress.
Tom and Lindsey got their system down for mounting the supports, bolting them to the joist ends and blocking the bottoms to the beams for added security.
Alex helped me with some milling this past Saturday, and proved to be a good little worker.
Alex entertained the world with some excellent practice on his new instrument, thereby becoming the first person to "use" the deck.
Here's the scene as I left this past Sunday morning--still some cuts to make, but the layout mostly complete to within 4' of the edge.
