Okay, this isn't really woodworking, well maybe. I pulled the old deck down and removed the wisteria. The first shot is the back of the house before any updates. The next shot is after they contractor removed the cement pads and marked the area of the deck. All of the work needs to be done by hand as they can't get a tractor back there, any more. My wife saw the marking and said the deck wasn't wide enough, so now we are getting a bid to add another 3 feet to both the cement pad beneath the deck and the deck itself.
We also had a fun time picking out a stamp pattern and a color. We agreed with a stamp pattern fairly quickly, but a color ... we are still trying to work that one out. At http://www.prolinestamps.com/ we selected Castle Stone for the design. We had limitations as the cement contractor doesn't carry the entire line. But it looks good to us. For the colors we looked at Davis Colors and had some real issues trying and wondering what the real colors would look like. They base color the cement with a color, then use a colored release agent which provides another layer of color on top. But this becomes as much art as luck with the colors.
Enjoy, and be careful of the splinters.
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