Deck Day 3

I got a little sidetracked this morning. I ended up cleaning the rain gutters with a broom, a vacuum, and a bucket. I got motivated to do this yesterday afternoon when I was working on the drain spouts. Over the years, the gutters were filling up with debris and I figured why not spend some time to clean them up.

But then I got back to work on the deck. Today I moved five more wheelbarrows of dirt. I also graded the surface to support drainage when it rains. I repositioned all of the grating stakes and measured out the required depth using my depth tool set to the size of the beams and joists (see photo below). I figure as long as the Earth is a couple of inches lower than that, I'll have enough ventilation and drainage under the deck. It looks like we're good to go!

 The five wheelbarrows of dirt from today plus the nine from yesterday equal 14. Curious as to what that looks like?

Q: So what can you make with 14 wheelbarrows of dirt? I've built enough dirt jumps to know exactly what that means. You can make something like this...

RIP Barnard Jumps circa 2003. The dirt lot is now a bunch of condos. Nothing is consistent but change.