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Stormchaser · 07-08-2005, 10:29 PM

I'm almost finshed building my deck. I budgeted $700.00 and It ended up costing me over $1100.00

Is this a familiar story to anyone? Talk about bad budgeting.....but its going to look nice though so its worth it!

Inferno · 07-08-2005, 11:41 PM

Cant remember what my parents paid for ours but my dad is a carpenter so all we had to pay for was the wood.

Dirty Mr. Clean · 07-08-2005, 11:52 PM

About $800 for me and I did all the work myself.

Sylvanfan · 07-09-2005, 10:07 AM

I built one three years ago 14x12 that was elevated for a bi-level that cost just over $1000 with treated lumber. But the price of building materials has really gone up in the past three years. That same year I build a fence around 200 linear feet of regular lumber that cost about $1500 by the time I had the posts drilled, and the fence painted. Last year 120 lineal feet of treated fence cost me like $2200.

Young Guns · 07-09-2005, 11:13 AM

Depends how big your deck was. Best way to go about it is go to a place like Home Depot and have them print a deck package up for you. After you drop a bunch of the useless crap they have included in there packages the price will be fairly close. Im building a 14x18 deck in my yard this summer, I expect it to be around $1300 bones.

Indi · 07-09-2005, 02:19 PM

looking at the bill of materials for the one I built last year, grand total was $1410.00...that included gst. This was for treated lumber, large joists (2x10), the whole railing, concrete, sonotubes etc.......went with the 5/4x5 decking with the rounded edges. The deck size was 15'x13'

jc

Stormchaser · 07-09-2005, 08:41 PM

Well thats it! The deck is done! It ends up being 10x20 ft. Today I installed some lattice above some of the railing to give some privacy from the neighbours. I used treated wood as well and also went with the bevelled 1x6 for the railings and floor.

Now about that fence........

Stormchaser · 07-09-2005, 08:46 PM

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Originally posted by fotze@Jul 9 2005, 08:00 PM
Mine was about $2000 for cedar decking and pretreated structure. Just think of it as putting that money in the bank while enjoying the deck too.

Thats true, even though I spend a bit on this i'll bet I can add another 5000.00 to the value of my house!