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One of my very favorite home improvement projects is building a deck. I’ve built many—along with fences, playgrounds and other sweet outdoor stuff.
I love building decks with wood too. Part structure, part trim, part art, part process, it speaks to me. And, in the pages of the October issue of Extreme How-To magazine, they let me speak to you. About decks. And fences. And other wood-building fun.
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For this fence project, I swipe a technique from deck building to make all the planking line up.
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