Few home improvements can match a wood deck for usefulness, beauty and enhanced value to a home. For adults, decks offer outdoor living space for entertaining, sun bathing and dining. For children, they provide an excellent outdoor play area.

A deck is an ideal home improvement project for the average handyman or woman. The design is straightforward. No advanced carpentry skills or sophisticated tools are needed. If you can hammer a nail, saw on a straight line, and read a level, then building a deck should present no major problems. This fifteen page, illustrated eBook, by Arch Chemicals, will show you how. 

Learn How to Build the Best Deck

This is a fifteen page, illustrated booklet. Please allow a few minutes for it to download to your computer.

Do-it-yourself deck Building Videos:

Framing a Deck

nstalling Deck Boards

You'll learn how to plan and design your deck using lumber sizing tables for strength and durability. You'll get helpful building and safety tips. You'll learn, step-by-step, how to build a deck and then how to finish it and maintain it for years and years of use.

Arch Chemicals, Inc. is the producer of Wolmanized Residential Outdoor Wood. That's wood protected by copper azole preservative for long-term resistance to termite damage and fungal decay. It's suitable for deck platforms, railings, understructure and in-ground columns.

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