Winner: Louise Mousseau - August 2005

Overview

We are so happy with the result that I'm wondering why we did not make it sooner!

My kids (Marie 14, Alex 13) and myself (Louise) started the project of a deck around the above ground pool in June. I was looking at books and Internet for a while now and the Deck Blocs seems to be the best way to do it for us. We live in San Antonio Texas where there is no freezing winter. Also there is a lot of rock in the ground so it is very hard to dig. With the help of your web site and all those pictures I did my own plan. I will say it took us about 3 full weeks to do the project.

We started with the upper portion (16 X 8) than the lower section (20 X20). After we did the ramp to connect the two levels deck. The steps for the lower section were done with 6 stringers homemade. That was the hardest part of the full project! The idea for the trellis on the upper portion came when I jumped on the deck and then realizes that we can see in my neighbor backyard very well and vise versa. Finally we add the canopy (offer by family members many years ago) to give us some shade under the fabulous sun of San Antonio! Thank you so much for your great BLOCKS! We will be honor to have ours pictures on your web site.

The Mousseau-Rioux family