I remember when there were roughly a billion fewer choices of deck boards and railing systems. The first decks I worked on as a carpenter’s helper weren’t even made of treated lumber — they were 2×6 spruce, pine, and fir (SPF). (I’m sure they’re mulch by now.)
A few years passed and I graduated to ocean dock building for very high-end customers. On their stratospherically expensive home sites it was “all pressure-treated all the time.”
And you’ll love this: We hand-nailed and carriage-bolted it all together. Our nice-looking — but decidedly green-hued — docks and swim floats reached out into Pleasant Bay.
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