hey everybody sam here and angela and welcome to our channel welcome back to what i hope to be the
last video showing us building the new deck our 12 by 10 deck on the back of our home previous video
was i i thought the end of construction although angela dropped a bombshell and said not so fast
what in the world are we doing today we are going to be adding some finishing touches
and making it feel a little more homey on our deck okay truth be told i knew that what i'm
about to show you was still on our to-do list and it's just that we decided to put it in this video
rather than the last one where we did the stairs what i have here is a metal post cap
we've got these to go on top of all of our handrail posts to prevent them from splitting
and cracking and just rotting or looking rough and terrible we have some basic metal ones we got from
the hardware store i like these because they are black they are really well painted and they are
solid also you don't screw them or attach them to your post in a mechanical way to me that says all
right my odds of splitting the wood apart at the last second with a screw should be minimal the way
you attach these is you use a either construction glue or in our case some of this lexel sealant put
a bead around the inside and you squish it in place within about 24 hours it cures up
sets and is perfectly fine keeps the water off and stays put but also gives you the option to
where you can pry it off if you ever want to do anything different down the line of the future
you don't need a whole lot on this it's just enough just to stick it down there and when you're
there stick it down look at that nice clean pretty appearance and it keeps the post nice and safe
i really like how the post caps finish off the deck it looks really good and
whenever you glue them like that they're really fast and soft they really are
she could barely get one out of the pack and open it before i had one done and was moving on to
the next right so we had ourselves a little square dance out here on a rectangular deck
so that's it right decks done not quite we got some stuff to make the deck feel
a little more homey like i say we i was totally an accomplice you were in a car actually i was i
was an instigator and encourager you were we couldn't very well have a nice new deck and
not have anything to put on it true nobody likes sitting on the bottom floor of a deck
so the first thing we are going to add up here is a nice umbrella because i have to say it gets
quite sunny and quite hot out here absolutely so let's get our new umbrella and put it together
some is gonna be required come on you do the bottom where i cut these off
yeah i can get the tape i feel more comfortable with tape with knives
do you want the scissors
there's one right here
let's cut a ribbon attached to it
hardware inside more than one person may be required to assemble this product no problem
hi guys
well this is pretty neat we've never had an umbrella like this um truthfully it was on
clearance and less than half the price which was amazing we think this is where we want it but
it's kind of hard to tell without putting other things on here so let's see what else we got
all right go out that way oh how long is this now what was it that you said
you wanted to do out here legos so do you think you might be able to do your legos out here now
yeah we have a rug you shouldn't lose any legos on the porch it was important when we were looking at
the rugs to make sure it was an outdoor rug that water would go through so it wouldn't get cruddy
and yucky so the boys would still be able to come out here and play on it and not think it's nasty
so i think this fits the bill so when we went looking for a patio set to put up here as far
as patio furniture we knew we wanted something that they actually call a conversation set
which is kind of like a little love seat and two chairs with like a little coffee table
rather than getting like a dining table with four to six chairs with it we didn't really want that
type we wanted something a little more relaxed out here for us while the boys go out and play
well we went to several stores and those are very pricey to get any kind of set like that
you're talking about 600 plus and that's not really in our budget that's not really what we
wanted to do so we happen to be at the end of the season there's a lot of clearances going on right
now and we got to one of the stores and they had the display for sale so i went and asked
if they had any additional discounts could they do on it because it was kind of scratched had
a stain on one of the seats that type thing and they said sure we'll knock off a little bit more
so we gotta add a better deal and we were also able to add a couple little extras to go with it
that were marked down as well some as much as half
so that was really nice too so let's take a look at what we decided to get
so these are the cushions that came with the set they are a little flat i mean they're okay but
i like something a little more plush so in comes the new cushions that we found again
these were on clearance too which made it a lot easier and it's red so it brings in
the color of our umbrella and it's going to add a lot more cush than it had before
so whenever you come up the steps on our deck you will see the major thing which is our umbrella
but we wanted to still use that space a little bit so we took our coffee table
and kind of set it caddy corner over the side of it so we can still utilize that space
and not have a lot of dead space which we don't like i mean you want to use every bit you got
our set came with two chairs the coffee table and the little love seat they didn't have the
red cushions for the love seat but we found that we could add the two pads for the chairs
onto the back of the seat here and give us extra cush we may look for cushions later on but right
now i think it's absolutely fine this is actually a lot more than i kind of anticipated the umbrella
it's kind of weird that it's over on the side but it cast shadow on a good part of the deck
for the time of day that we're gonna be out here so this is a lot more than we had really
anticipated and this set is a lot nicer than anything we have ever had i really like it
so
do
welcome to the finished back deck right we're finished right i think we are finally good yes
it feels great to literally just sit down for a minute we have been going non-stop five months
now right uh probably more than that but yeah oh we had the five month anniversary in the camper
yes so there's the but we're almost there um having the deck done is an awesome place to
hang out as you can see we are chillaxing out here in the very end of the day once the sun goes down
and the heat goes away it's very pleasant it is definitely i put up some solar lights that were
sent to us from a viewer thank you yes thank you we look forward to seeing how these things light
up tonight i'll be sure and put a clip at the end of the lights whenever it's dark and everything
i put them on all the posts on the deck and in the corners they look a little bit crowded
but i couldn't figure out another way that i liked so much more light is okay though yeah yeah it is
definitely like having a little bit of light out here because it can be a little bit scary coming
outside at night when there are woods especially behind you you don't know what sort of critters
are going to be coming yep angela and elijah have um acquired a tactic when they go outdoors what
is it you guys do whistle or hum or sing because you don't know if there's something in the woods
watching you so oh there's stuff everywhere watching you you just don't want to come out
and touch it right we have a couple of cameras up around the property and as far as wildlife we
have caught a red fox a about a million cats feral cats crazy cats we see raccoon tracks a lot we do
although they've not been caught on camera yet but and then a couple of deer tracks beginning tracks
and then one day elijah and i saw like three or four turkey in our woods at the back side of the
field true so that's good i'm happy with it we can leave it at that we don't need a petting
zoo or a mauling station i know the majority of land out here is farmland so there's not
much wild areas for things to go wild at our last place in north carolina there was a lot more deer
and stuff like that there so our property butted up to i think about 100 acres of wild
no one's out there land but hey this is pretty comfortable we're sitting on our love seat here or
i guess there's a love seat right it has to be three cushions to be a couch
i think so so we're chilling on the left seat you guys are on the rug there
and then as you've seen from the footage we've got some chairs nice background here the
yeah it is and as you can see yes that's where the sun sets
this completes the back deck and this actually completes the required construction for us to
get our co after this we're going to move inside we're going to finish out the trim and molding
indoors that's my criteria it's what i want to do but at the same time we're going to have our
hvac and electrical contractors do their parts on finishing hooking up the home and our mini splits
and then we're done as crazy as it sounds that's it so definitely stick around
for those videos as far as the interior work and absolutely moving day that'll be madness
and all the other exciting things to come so hopefully you did enjoy this deck build if you did
not see the previous videos the entire deck builds chronicle below there's a playlist any detail you
want to know as far as how sam and angela build a pretty sturdy back deck you can check it out
it's there for you to view we now have front deck and back deck right all decked out well
guys thanks for coming along with us as we finish this up if you have any questions or comments
leave them below otherwise we will see you guys next time on the homestead see you guys bye
a little bit of bonus footage here's how we fold the umbrella down
it's a little bit weird being that it's a suspended umbrella
so i don't know it's it's cool it's great to have the open space it's just a little bit weird
kind of reminds me of a flower petal or something as far as whenever it folds up and kind of
droops down and over but it's cool it definitely is out of the way and is pretty easy to put up so
all right we'll see you guys in a second for that nighttime footage
and then it'll be a blooper reel you know that's coming so stick around
we decided to put the okay not a fly friend i know i tried to get it off
sorry we decided to put the table kind of caddy corner over top
all right well i'm gonna i'm gonna lead the witness and you're the witness here
but it's still out of the way it looks really nice you'll get to see it
in a second see that's where i'm like the last video of us building the deck on the back of
our 1988 palm harbor single wide mobile home what the flip
are you sure it's focused it feels really close
yeah okay well it's pretty neat we've never been out of the way oh come on
this will be new for us it will be actually yeah we've never who assembles umbrellas all right
let's square it up guys it's not straight i don't know what to do i'm having an episode over here
nope
um i'm gonna have to do something different with this i guess that's the perk of being
surrounded by farmland majority majority that's not a word slow finishing it out
and shooting one you only have like a few million things going on just a million
you