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Decking around Newel Posts  - project 7

Decking project 7 looks at cutting in the deckboards around the newels for the balustrades. Take care with measurements and calculate where your newels will be in relation to the deck boards. Far easier to cut two slots out of adjoining deckboards than to have to cut a central rectangle out of the middle of a deck board!

One aspect of building a deck is fraught with problems fore the inexperienced DIY person. How to cut the holes in the deck where the newels poke through.

Easiest way is to have the newels and handrail balustrades right on the edge of the deck, but this is not always possible or practicable.

It will nearly always involve the cutting in of the deckboards around the balustrade newel support posts. It will help greatly if you ensure that you purchase newel posts which are perfectly 'square' and not wrongly machined.

Decking being laidDeckboards notched around balustrade stringer
The image shows a neatly finished cut around a newel post, where care had been taken earlier in the construction to ensure that the newel was positioned between two decking boards. This is much easier than cutting a slot hole out of a single deckboard.
The easy way to do this is to leave the fixing of the newel posts until decking is well under way. This will allow for the position to be as in the image in most instances.
Where the newel has to be fixed at a deck corner, this type of operation is not always possible.



Overhang of fixed decking boards being trimmed

The deckboards in this case were laid with a 'waste' overhang. This is often the case where for instance, deck dimensions do not match up with the different lengths of deck board available.

Don't be tempted to try staggering the lengths in order to minimise wastage. Visual satisfaction is important. Allow for at least 10% wastage of decking materials in your cost estimates. 10% wastage is more or less the accepted norm when buying anything other than expensive hardwood boards.


The finished decking project
The decking project more or less finished with a view of the balustrades over well laid decking.
Where the decking runs along the length of balustrading, it is often desirable to lay your first board flush against the newels and then 'notch' the outer board to take it into the newel.
Any adjustments can be remedied later in the decking process where the deck finishes against a wall. If it is a free standing deck, then carefully allow for working around the newels at the design stage. Bear in mind the 'finished' - nominal - width of the deckboards rather than simply measuring the actual width of the board.


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