Aunt Mel's Deck (part II)

Destruction time.

I ripped off the rail. (mostly by hand with out tools)



Then I started pulling deck boards. Initially I thought I could just replace a few bad deck boards. But the demo process showed that every board was rotted: some came apart in my hands. No wonder the deck felt soft and creaky.



After all the deck boards were off it was obvious that I had been overly optimistic about the condition of the framing members.