I built a deck for our house years ago now. It’s held up extremely well. A couple of the decking boards are rotting out, which I won’t take the blame for since they are PT boards and supposedly don’t rot. Guess they don’t make them like they used to.
Aside from the decking boards, the other thing that has slowly been chipped away at are the post caps I fashioned. They were simple enough- squares cut from a 2×6 that I then cut into shallow pyramid shapes and then glued on to the tops of the posts. They looked nice when I originally did it but time and weather has undone it all. Most of the caps have fallen off due over the years as the glue has given out.
So, to give the deck a new look and some more light, the Wife found and ordered solar light caps. They are kind of like squatty looking lightpost lamps, with a solar panel on the top to charge a pair of AA batteries that in turn run a couple of LED’s.
The lamps arrived today, and there is some assembly required. Specifically, the tops need to be taken off and the batteries installed. At which point, they need to be set out in the Sun to charge the batteries.
Seems like a great job for a couple of kids to take care of tomorrow.