Extending the Deck

I reassembled a deck that I had built for my travel trailer "Chez Sugar" (see left below.) and it was higher than the back door of the house in San Augustine, so you had to go out the back door and mount four steps to get on the deck. I had planned from the beginning to extend the deck in front of the back door at the same level as the back door, one step lower than the deck. On the right below is how it looked when I attached it to the house.


















On the left below is a close-up of the end of the deck where the extension will go.
















The two pictures below are what the deck extension looked like after the first day's work.


















The last three pictures are after the second day of work on the extension. It is finished except for some "prettying up" and finishing trim. I also need to put up hand rails for both sets of steps. The dimensions of the original deck were 6'x12'. The extension is 4'x6', so now it's 16'x6' on two levels. The extension doesn't add much "usable" space, but it does provide some space for a few more containers, particularly for kitchen spices, oregano, thyme, basil, etc., near the back door and it's more convenient to pluck green peppers and egg plant from the back-door bed. It's also more convenient to get to the deck from the back door.


































The next deck project is to build a pagoda using a modification of a plan at the Lowes.com site.