I spent the entire day on Friday working on the demolition. At times, it was slow and tedious but it wasn't too difficult. The hardest thing was taking down the 2x10 that was how the roof of the deck was attached to the house.
I spent Saturday afternoon working on the demolition. The pile of debri continued to climb. I wasn't looking forward to hauling it off. Our city taxes pay for large trash to be hauled off. However, we have to "prepare it" and then drag it to side of the street. Preparing this trash meant removing the nails from the wood or driving the nails completely into the wood. I did haul off the roofing material to the local landfill. I would have been too much work to pull all the roofing nails out of the plywood.
I took a vacation day on Monday so that I could finish the demolition. Finally, late Monday afternoon, I finished the demolition and clean up of the deck. I discovered that there was some dry rot to the house band. I am having a general contractor, who is a member of our church, come to look at the spot to see if it will be okay or if it needs to be repaired. I think that I will be okay to simply treat the wood so that it doesn't disinegrate anymore.
This is what our deck looks like sitting by the edge of the road (minus the roofing).
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