Build Update: Skirting & New Tricks || Dr Decks 

I've been a builder for 35 years and I am very precise with my work ,I've been watching a ton of decking videos ,all I can say is your attention to detail is top class on the ends and finishes 🤘

Always love watching you work your magic. I wish more people cared about their craft the way you do.

👌🏼👍🏼Probably one of the cleanest Composite installs I’ve seen 👌🏼

Great finish! Great craftsmanship!

I really like the attention and detail of your builds. It’s nice to see craftsmanship and someone who takes pride in their work. I’m starting a deck soon and taking a lot of your points and suggestions and incorporating into my neck build. Never knew about applying the waterproof membrane behind the skirt boards. My last so called carpenter t did none of that on my patio stairs.

Done a few decks before I retired 2 yrs ago. Doing some part time work, as handyman finding more decks to do! Ever learning from the Dr. Great info and I am inspired! God bless!

I love your way of doing work really.. you are the person that is solution to problem.. and thats how things are get done !!!

First time visit here. This video had all my favourite things: beautiful view, burly dirty men explaining tricky deck stuff, personal struggle with angle problem solving, and a dog rolling in the grass! The curve in that deck is amazing too. Thank you. Now to get back to DIY on my own deck. 😊

I really like the outside corner detail. I’m going to try it.

Lovely finish to the top of that step. Great work 👌🏻

Wow man I am just super impressed!

Good stuff, thank you for the professional content.

You got some detailed work going on over there my man. I love it! Subscribed

Never seen anyone pay so much attention to detail, very impressed

Great work bod, great info .

Awesome detail...

Awesome idea..just like edge banding

Great tip on those corners! Creating decks in the mid Atlantic region with composite it’s always tedious to get our corners looking perfect.

That's artwork Big Dr D

Good stuff as always. CA glue vs PVC glue? Never thought to use CA on pvc. That small detail on the stair skirt was very nice. Love going the extra mile for details.

Thanks for sharing your skills

Surprised that you don't run the decking over the top of the fascia edge. Is that your standard?

Amazing work, I wish I would have hired you guys for my back deck.

I’m subscribed. I’ve build a few decks but always looking to see what’s new in tricks and see how to and ways of trimming.

Dr. Deck nicely done sir.

Good job lads 👍👍

Great video!😊

Great video! I have some composers steps coming down to a sloped concrete pad. My last fascia board would either be cut straight and have a big gap at the bottom or I try to cut to match the slope. Which is correct?

The glued “factory”strip is TOO COOL

Nice presentation. What is the glue you use on the composite material? Could it be used to seal the ends of the boards also?

I like your attention to detail. I hope your getting paid for it!

And here I am thinking I’m the only one that uses clamps like that …kept thinking maybe I’m too picky. It’s great to see somebody else uses them ! I use bar clamps all over the place when I’m building decks…especially, for securing posts and shimming them before attaching .They have so many great uses !

Use the same piece .. cut out your” triangle ( surgically ) but leave 3/16 of the top so you can simply bend it down for your “cap “ use heat when needed, trim and file, paint as you do.. etc

What do you use for a sticker on tape measure? Great idea!

sounds like a great idea. where do you get those clamp pad for the decking your man was using .

Damn you guys never cease to amaze. You are likely the most detailed deck builder out there. Great stuff Dr. Decks!

Dr. D. In those "expansion" corners you are doing just after the miter, what spacing do you need? Thank you in advance.

What color combination Axek is that? Looks good!

Great content. Where did you get that pencil holder attached to your hoodie? I’ve broken so many retractable pencil holders! This looks like a good solution for me. Thx in advance for your time.

Just subscribed love the channel

Which Simpson bracket do you use on a 30/60 degree joist angle 8"?

What type of jig saw blade do you use for AZEK PVC DECKING?

Can you use cortex screws to attach timber tech to timber tech on a outside corner?

What kind of glue do you use to glue the miters together?

Is there a specific name to that pad that you use on the Irwin Quick Clamp at 1:16? I'm trying to find it.

Do you apply spacers behind the facia

What kind of glue do you use to glue the ripped edge band?

Wish I had hired someone like you who knew what they were doing like they told me they did. Now I have a so, so deck after spending lot of money on the material. My deck is 15X60 foot on one level and 1000 square foot on the other two lower decks. They did ended up not getting paid because they got the measurements wrong and ordered double the material order. Can't swear to it but I think they had planned on taking off with the half not used. They had to pay for returns etc..

Nice attention to detail.

How do you make a spacer for the facia?

Another thing you could do on the end grain cover is leave a flap and fold it over.

You sir are a true craftsman, sadly a dying breed.

Just curious where you are located - I had done my stair fascia like you showed in MN and it was not a good idea - looked great but the mn weather wrecked it in a couple years. Water would sit in the corners and freeze busting the skirt board off (And rotting the attached stringer which was treated in about 6 years). I since rebuilt it with the skirt cut along the stringer and a picture frame on the treads covering the place where the fascia meets the stringer hopefully eliminating the issue. MN winters are rough on construction

A TRUE MAN OF PRIDE ... GREAT WORK....

which glue did you use? Also, how do you do angles down the stairs...I find that always confusing. Not the rise over run, but the other cuts.

Great Work Man! Thanks for all the Info! Where did you find the list of paint codes for tinting cut edges?...I can't find it anywhere on the TimberTech website. Keep on Hustling!

I hate open miters myself! So annoying! My thoughts are that the miter is only one joint open at that corner rather than two butt joints opening within 6" of that corner. My coworker and I go back and forth about this! I've heard you speak of this in the past and can't wait for your final decision! We generally go with picture framing with a 3/4 nosing. For the life of me, I can't get him to go with flush on top fascia using 5/4 with the 1/2 below it for the stepped look. Hes so set in his ways! My coworker insists on mitering his picture frame boards as well, and they look great for a minute (i mean that literally), and within no time at all they open and look horrible. We did do mitered drink rails and managed to glue and pocket hole most of the miters which seemed to work well but was extremely difficult to manage without accidental breakage of the Azek boards ends at the joints in the process. We also started ripping the smooth linear edge off of scrap solid Azek and gluing and pin nailing to end grain in some cases, rather than a mitered return. Gotta try different things in my book!

What is the glue you are using?

You didn’t even show us the completed side of the stairs which was the trickiest part of the video. Great job Doc, install is looking great.

What type of decking clamps are you using? Are they deck specific or did you customize a stock clamp to hold facia in place? Great videos and fantastic attention to detail.

What glue do you use?

hi could you say what is the name of your glue is please.

What glue are you using?

Rebuilding moms two story beast of a deck. Saw your video and honestly wasn't planning on subscribing even after you mentioned 80% of the views are not subscribed, sorry. But after watching this video brother i HAD to subscribe. Thanks for the time you put into making this video and sharing your knowledge.

Hey Doc, which Fastenmaster screws are you using to screw in your diagonal V bracing to underside of joists? Thanks, Doug

The decking companies owe you a big fat check for getting people through the hell of working with this shit! You keep people trying to do this! They absolutely should be paying you!!! ( if they don’t) You guys have it worked out very well.. most guys would sink this garbage to the bottom of the ocean in a Newyork minute! You manage to make it look good.. what a struggle though… & when it’s done it looks nice but probably for a short time! If you use the deck on a hot day your kids will Scald their bare feet ! Don’t even try to sit on a bench made of this “ stuff” ouch You do a great job.. when I invent a better composite I’ll get you to try it out! God I hate working on decks anymore…

for that last top corner where you glued a ripped factory edge on, could you have maybe just used that piece itself? meaning somehow rip down that edge, cutting out the pie shaped meat of it, and just bent down with some heat, the left over edge from that piece itself?

thanks for Xsplaining the shims.

First time viewer and subscriber. You just did some amazing work. That deck is absolutely the farthest thing from a cookie-cutter deck. I love all of the bows and angles. I wish I could find someone as attentive to detail as you to build a deck for me. Great job!

I want that pencil

What is the name of the glue u use? it looks real thin. Is it just for composite or can it be used on other things?

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How are you doing butt joints on a long run of facia?

I think I would have notched the riser end the thickness of your trim piece and then glued it in.

The nosing on treads, believe it or not, has a code minimum and maximum of how far the nosing projects over the next stair. Nosing's are required to overhang a minimum of ¾-in. to a maximum of 1-¼-in. Also, the maximum nosing radius cannot exceed 9/16 of an inch. Maybe it is not required where you are but if it were your threads would not pass inspection. Mike T

i don't know if anyone has tried doing this but i am going to see if it works, domino the miters together with a Festool 500. What do you think?

BEAUTIFUL!

Should have ripped the skirt board itself, taken an angled notch out, and then bent the sliver over and glued it for no seam on the top.

the math wizzard!

Attention to detail👍 what is that on your tape measure, paper?

Need your help Jason or zdeckman: My ThruLOKs protrude from my rim joist 1/4-5/16”. Installing Deckorators 1/2” fascia board. Do you recommend adding composite shims to compensate for the gap?

Why not just determine two angles: one for the top of the stairs (the deck surface vs the stair angle) and divide that in half for a clean miter and finish at the top and the second angle at the bottom of the stairs is the stair angle vs the riser and miter that angle and voilà… you have you both angles and a clean join at both top and bottom.

Composite lumber doesn't expand or contract like wood.

Why is the outer trim piece edge exposed, as oppose to overlap the deck board? T.Y.

Do you charge more than an average deck builder? All decks I see in my neighborhood looks like crap compared to these, so you should:D They look fine from the distance, but whenever I look closer, it is sloppy work. I love your attention to details.

I really do not like bringing fascia to the height level of deck boards. I would rather keep it under the boards. My opinion....the last thing you want is for people to keep stepping on those fascia boards, as they will eventually sag below the deck board height. I always keep fascia under the deck boards. On stairways, you absolutely have to keep the stringer fascia under the tread boards, or you will see the notched cuts around the stairs. Everyone makes their choices....but |I think it's a mistake. I install fascia first, and then install picture frame deck boards...face-screwed...and then install the runs of deck boards.

Dr.dick your a genius

Building my own Deck but these videos make me feel like I am a complete amateur hack.... rounded edge !?

I sent you an e-mail 7-10 days ago, No reply.

She’s factree

It w/ be helpful! if cameraman focused the camera on the area (or thing) you are explaining....instead of keeping the camera on You !

You skip through steps rapidly like clamping etc.

You don't show enough demonstrations, so I'm not going to watch anymore

Nobody subscribes because the types of people who are building their own decks don’t use social media accounts lol we are here for the data brother

How the hell is this guy a carpenter? He needed a calculator to find half of 66. This guy is a hack. Go back to framing houses.

Guess I’m the only one that thinks this looks like crap

Hate watching jerky video….