My Easy-peasy porch repair

About three years ago we had one of the 2x6 boards on our porch get soft.  Not a big deal, except the original screws were stripped as soon as the bit touched them so
I switched to a drill and drilled the heads off. This allowed me to pop the old board off and replace it with a new one, easy peasy... Right? The rest of the covered portion and the open deck were still solid and in good shape...  I thought...

This past fall after the wet season was underway, I noticed there was a small section of the open deck that was looking soft, as this is a spot where snow slides off onto
I located a 2x3' piece of plywood and covered it over for the winter.
By this spring after sitting under a melting snow pile even the plywood was sagging.

Last weekend we got our first hint of spring!  Starting Saturday temperatures got into the 50's with some sun breaks.
Sunday dawned clear with temps rising into the 60s!
I thought great day to whip this little job out...  
I'll just pop off the bad boards and cut some replacements from my stash of 2x 6 easy peasy... Be done in a few hours... (famous last words)
Of course, the screw heads were useless but these boards were bad enough that they were pulled by hand, hmmm...
As I got a look under the boards I saw that gosh my blocking nailers were rotten, oh no...
I pull off more deck boards, these needed to have the screw heads drilled out first.
With a better look underneath I see that OH SHITE the floor joist here is rotted! Dang, hate when that happens!
I continue to remove decking, the far end where I am working is just above ground level, as I expose more joists I find that many are rotten and just waiting to break.
As I approach the covered portion of the deck, ground clearance improves and I get a couple of joists that are still good, a positive sign... I thought...
A few more deck boards removed show me that no I have another will break soon joist on that end as well! Sigh

The good news was that the covered portion was in fine shape, and more importantly, the sill boards on the open portion were still solid.
A trip to the home depot store 65 miles one way and I had 10 new ground contact 2x 6s, new joist hangers,  a 5# box of 3.5" screws and because I was there I brought home 50 clay bricks to add to my pile for a RMH build later this summer.
That should do it.
Monday and Tuesday were outstanding weather, 65F with clear sky's.
Wednesday and Thursday were also great although the next wet weather was approaching.
Quite the job, demoing the old wood, cutting off old screws, moving all the bad wood over to the burn barrel and getting ready to start hanging the new joists.
On Friday it was cloudy and breezy but other than a few showers no real rain, however after I started decking I quickly realized that my stash of 2x 6 was not nearly large enough, my stash of 2.5" screws was also lacking... Sigh another 130 mile round trip to Sandpoint and I bring home the rest of the material that I should have bought on my first trip... the good part was bringing home another 50 clay bricks.

Saturday morning with light rain I finally got the deck complete, Saturday afternoon the hard driving rain arrived and overnight it turned to snow...
Spring has gone into remission and the sanding and water sealing will have to wait until it returns.

Funny how time slips by as you get older.
My buddy and I built that deck from full dimension rough cut lumber, I expected it to last for decades...
It seems like it was not long ago at all... As best as Liz and I can figure it was probably  in the mid 1990s...
Hmm apx three decades... how did that happen and when!

Well, this time with joist hangers, ground contact lumber and all new decking, it will be the kids problem to repair!

Well done repair and great documentation!

This looks like some Oddball BB material if you fancied to submit it.

I have to do a similar repair here in the spring with an attached mudroom that is starting to 'pull' from my house but I have a rough plan to sink some anchors into the foundation.

We have a deck like that... unfortunately, I don't have Thomas here to light an RMH under Hubby to get on with a better fix! It was a horrible design to begin with, and Hubby really doesn't get that we're living in a rain forest! It's much harder to fix something you don't like in the first place. The fix tends to grow to fill more time and cost than is justifiable.

This!

.....it will be the kids problem to repair!  

We are there!
It's so freeing and relaxing
The list is probably getting a little long but just to be able to say 'we can leave that for the boys to repair' is a milestone for us after decades of home repair.

And your deck redo is quite beautiful by the way!

Today we had our second day of dry weather with clear skies.
First thing this morning I was sanding the deck.
Then I liberally applied Thompson water seal on it.
Rain is not expected until late this evening, plenty of time to dry.

Nice work, Thomas!! We have some deck repairs to do, this year, too. The ground under ours slopes steeply away from the house, so a few spots may be a bit tricky, for footing, while working. But we've both checked the wood **all** over the deck, top, bottom, and under, and it *LOOKS* like we will only have to replace 6 or 7 boards. But, the whole thing will need a good pressure washing, before we can seal it. Ours doesn't have any pretty patterns to the layout, either. Nice deck!