The Deck from Heck

So if you haven't heard our deck story here is the shortened version. In March we got some bids to have a deck built. Casey & I hired this guy whose bid was very detailed, and who seemed very professional. He required 50% down and came to our home to start the project. He basically jack hammered our top step, took the 50% down and half our lumber and never came back. We totally got $@*^&. So Casey advertises on good old KSL.com that we were looking for someone to come and help finish the deck. We already had the materials and this really nice kid who said he had framing and deck building experience was hired to help Casey finish the deck. When that deck was finished 3 months later it was a Monet. Looked good from far away, but up close it was a mess! There were so many carpentry errors and nothing was square. Casey (who is a bit of a perfectionist) couldn't stand looking at it, and I kept saying, "well maybe if we put some patio furniture on it it won't be so bad. Yaddy Yaddy Yada we tore it down and started with a new deck company called Definitive Construction and they did a heck of a job and were professional, fast, and had great ideas. So, here is the end results.

Pretty sweet!I went out to start cleaning out the hot tub and the kids all came out..... barefoot! There was still nails and wood that hadn't been removed and so I said, "you all need to go in a put some shoes on right now!" (in the stern mom voice). As Cy starts coming in, he screams and says, "Ow, my foot!" I look over to see blood streaming and I rush him in to see that he had stepped on a rusty nail and it had gone all the way through his foot. So I took him to the instacare to make sure he had received the shots he needed, and he had thank goodness, so now he just has a super sore foot. Poor kid, he kept saying, "I sorry mom, i need shoes on, i sorry mom." It was so sweet, i felt so bad for him. Here is the pictures.