- Start in one corner of the sub-frame and position the first board across the inner joists. You want the deck board in the opposite direction to the inner joists, ensuring that it’s flush with the frame. Position any end-to-end joins between the deck boards halfway across an inner joist so you can screw both boards into the joist for stability. Make sure you keep a gap of between 5-8mm to allow for expansion of the wood.
- Begin to screw your deck boards to the joists. You’ll need to secure the deck board to every joist is covers along your deck frame. Use two screws for every joist. Mark where you’re going to add your screws, ensuring that they are at least 15mm from the end of the board and 20mm from the outside edges. Drill pilot holes for the screws, being careful to only drill through the deck board and not the joist. Then screw the decking screws into the holes.
- Continue to screw in the deck boards, ensuring you leave the correct expansion gap. You can stagger the deck board joins across the deck for more strength.
- Sand down any cut ends if you need to before applying decking preserver to protect the timber from rotting.
Ferndale
Ferndale is a village located in the Rhondda Valley in the area district of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring villages are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The first coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 as well as was the first area to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is known as Glynrhedynog, the name of one of the old farms on which the town is built. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was additionally known as Trerhondda after the name of the first large chapel to be built in the community. The naming of settlements after churches prevailed in Wales at the time, as is shown in village names such as Bethesda, Beulah as well as Horeb, however neither Glynrhedynog neither Trerhondda was destined to be made use of for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words "glyn" indicating valley and also "rhedynog" meaning ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a much easier name for English customers to take in. The Ferndale pits are what attracted the workforce and also their households to the area, as well as by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well developed as a growing town. With the phasing in of multilingual roadway signs from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog progressively came back as well as is now the officially marked Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the boost in Ferndale after the town adopted the English language throughout the Industrial transformation. A Welsh language college is positioned near the park as well as the college is called after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).
