So. After last night's debacle, I surveyed the damaged: both main lag screws were bent and would need to be replaced. On good advice, I also flipped the joists so I was boring new wood instead of trying to reuse the old one:
With great help from Dominic, instructional assistance from Jonas, and with critical help from Milo (the kind of help that can't be photographed because all our hands are busy and both our lives are on the line like Julia would never approve), this came out:
Ready to start flooring with decking, right? Right?? Well... Not without one more trip to the hardware store for an additional ledger to make up for my incorrect measurement:
Shown above: flush on one side, the plank doesn't quite reach the other :( so close...
By the way, all the forecast tstorms have been wrong! But tonight.. Expecting storms.. :D
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