My First Round Deck

Beautiful deck. Wish I was setting on it now.

-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability

Beautiful! I wanna go there.

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Thats a nice Deck. What is the diameter?

-- Experience: What you have left after you've lost everything else.

TexasNick:
It’s a 14’ diameter deck, which made for a manageable curve. I recently did one at 10’, and that was really difficult…I ruined a board trying to get it to bend.

-- Bob, Indiana, "Well done is better than well said." -Ben Franklin http://www.bgwconstructionllc.com/

Beautiful work.

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this is really awesome! I love to see outside of the norm construction in practical application! I’d really like to know how you accomplished the bend without splintering/splitting it. a series of kerf cuts? steam bending? if you don’t mind sharing the technique, that is!

Superb craftsmanship! well done!

-- Gridlockd

Gridlockd,

I don’t mind sharing at all. I made kerf cuts in two 20’ 2×8’s. This particular deck we figured I had over 1500 cuts, a little over halfway through the 2×8. It was definitely a learning process. Too deep a cut makes for a very poor curve…one that’s tough to control. Too shallow resulted in breaking the board. On the railing, I had no choice but to use composite 2×4’s (in this case, Trex). All I did to allow for the bend was lay them on the asphalt on a very hot day.

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

-- Bob, Indiana, "Well done is better than well said." -Ben Franklin http://www.bgwconstructionllc.com/

Bob: Have you ever tried to steam the boards? Something 20’ long may be a task but smaller may be an option.
It looks fantastic. Very nicely done.
Thanks for sharing,
Mike.

-- Mike, Somewhere in Indiana with a splinter or two!

Sticks,

I didn’t want to steam the boards because of the size of the steamer I’d have had to build for a project that I may not do very often. Since completing this deck, I’ve only done two others, so that would be one long steamer to store. That being said, steaming would make for a more structurally sound edge board. Attaching the posts to the Kerfed rim was tedious…I had to really resupport each point.

Thanks for the kind words.

-- Bob, Indiana, "Well done is better than well said." -Ben Franklin http://www.bgwconstructionllc.com/

cool looking deck

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a great looking deck. even after a few years

great job.
I’ve been a deckbuilder for 15 years, and have only built 1 round deck, but I didn’t have to bend the beams or fascia. It had a stone step and planter boxes all around it.

-- Steve-- http://www.urbanexteriors.biz