Goodbye Deck!

 A few months ago Will accidentally broke that board in the deck that is a different color and we needed to replace it. But while it was off I decided to check to see what was going on underneath it.

I have ALWAYS hated this deck and wanted to rip it out but we never did because we couldn't afford to put in a cement patio. However, over the years I noticed that there was cement under a portion of the deck but we had NO IDEA how big it was or if it was in good shape.

So since that board was already broken we took advantage and looked underneath and to our surprise there WAS already a cement patio under there and stairs to the door! Yipee! So we took FULL advantage of having two boys at home and we set a date to RIP IT ALL OUT!

Initially we thought about keeping this area where the grill was because it is where we kept our firewood, but quickly changed our mind when we started ripping everything out. It was so horribly made that it was literally falling apart and wood was rotting! We had almost the entire thing ripped out in just a few hours! And the more we took out the more patio we found! It was NUTS!!

But it was also VERY gross! Lots and lots of trash and old toys etc were under there! But we took out all the boards and put them in piles and kept on moving! It was super exciting to finally be doing it!

The best part of all this was that we did it around the fall cleanup so we knew we wouldn't have to haul away all this wood on our own. We got a good start on it! We'll be finishing it up very soon!