Doing a gazebo for a friend who wants to help do the grunt work. Never having done one; which way is it easier to match the butt ends -radially or concentrically?
Thanks, Ed
Doing a gazebo for a friend who wants to help do the grunt work. Never having done one; which way is it easier to match the butt ends -radially or concentrically?
Thanks, Ed
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Concentrically.
You mean on the decking, right? Or the exposed roof sheathing?
The floor decking looks best if the long edges, too, meet neatly at the butts. If you're careful, you can lay four pie-wedge sections, letting the ends run wild, and trim all of the ends off later using a cutting guide.Start this whole process at the outside, and leave out the last two or three courses, the shortest pieces, to leave room to start and finish your cutoff-guide cuts. Do a few boards in one wedge, then skip #2 and move over to # 3, and so on, so that you can check to keep the courses parallel.After you've installed and cut off wedges #1,3,5, and 7, fill in the other four wedges, cutting each piece individually, working from the inside out this time, especially if you're using T&G. That'll go a lot faster than one stick at a time all around, but make sure you compare your courses as you lay them, and keep them even. If one of the first four wedges grows a bit, shave the groove edge of a board with a plane, for T&G, or shrink the gaps between boards if you're using gapped decking, so that all of the courses meet like mitered casings.Do the roof deck in wedges, too, but don't agonize too much about lining up the long edges. And, of course, don't worry at all about how those miters look! From underneath, you can't see those joints -- they're hidden by the rafters -- so 1/4" off or so on both butts and long edges will still look like a million bucks.AitchKay
Ed, running the deck boards around concentrically means that the end cuts will be less than 45°, so they're easy to do on a chop saw. It would probably look great to radiate each board from the center, but that's a LOT of LONG miter cuts, and I don't know that it would look any better than the other way.
One way to give you a little leeway in matching butt ends is to run an 1-1/2" wide board along the joist where the boards will change direction. Then run each board into that 1-1/2" strip. If your boards don't match up perfectly no one will know the difference. Leave the same gap at the end of each board as you have between boards, so when moisture makes them move the joint won't look bad.
Mike As I picture your solution: sister two 2xs on the eight radiating joists, run the decking to the joists and cap it with another 2x, right?
Ed
Close--I would frame it as you suggest, then install the radiating "cap" piece, then run the decking to the radiating piece. In the end the floor should all be in the same plane.