Hmmm, guess what I’ve been doing? Yes, decks. 😉

Finally found a contractor that would come in and fix the mess left by building a sidewalk on top of sand held back by a wood retaining wall… wood rots, sand runs out, concrete collapses.

Took away the rotting timbers and put concrete walls around the part I wanted to save, but did everything with a bobcat. Chewed the back yard to shreds.

So … the idea to have decks in next year has moved up thanks to a sea of mud and home depot “do not pay till July 2009.” (And I’m not building them myself either… I don’t have the time to do it all myself, though I have a reasonable confidence that I could. I have a lot of other things that have to be fixed as well because of this.)

Of course, now I have the problem of picking out decking material. I do not want to refinish the decks every year so that leaves out any sort of wood I could afford. So fake wood it is… I like the looks of EON but the installer guy says that they haven’t been standing up to our climate. He says the Brite material does and is cheaper.

One can’t seem to find product reviews of this sort of stuff online 🙁 Oh well, at least here in Alberta I don’t have to worry about rat nests!

Oh yeah, see you in 2 weeks!