RIVERFRONT BACKYARD BUILD Pt 6 - Deck Sleeper System and Deck Lighting

0:04 what's going on everybody welcome back to the vlog in this video we're going to be diving into a concrete overlay we'll also be jumping into some more of the deck details and some low voltage lighting it's going to be a good one so make sure you hit subscribe stay tuned what you doing tony i'm working what are you doing i'm filming you um we're throwing down this decorator sleeper system on top of this concrete slab porch whatever you want to call it very easy effective system it's thermally modified composite material so it's impenetrable to wood [Laughter] what is it sean teach me teach the people what we got here you're getting

0:50 confused with the uft edge material which is thermally modified this is mineral based it's mineral based composite so this is the same exact material that the decking's made out of gotcha it has an incredibly high weight to strength ratio so it's lightweight but it's also super strong try to break it i can't i'm seeing it a lot you guys got this up in a jiffy right [Music]

1:50 it's gonna look nice [Music] should i get my oh on what are you gonna do jump in i was gonna jump in and help the guys out but um i guess they don't need me right now so you need anything not at all all right i'm here if you need me we got

2:36 some stuff to do in the van anyway so all right i think the saws are broken why because i tried to cut a square cut what that happened

3:30 oh pretty good fit you can see we got a lot of these deck boards down uh tell me how to do this fancy little scribe here you want to give them a quick little demonstration how you do that with your little compass there you scribe it you cut it cut it on a little bit of an angle install it good it thanks for that very informative uh maybe it's so shy so i'll explain it's very difficult all right so we've got this irregular face of stone here so what you're going to want to do with something like this we can't actually mark out this piece because it's such a small piece so what we want to do in this case make a template you can get a piece of cardboard whatever and you're going to go like this and you're just going to go 90 degrees off the stone and you're gonna basically

4:15 trace that contour of the stone you'll have that then you can put it on your piece you can cut it you'll be good to go we've got some nicer weather today so finally so we're going to hold off on the screen porch till we get our next rain day that's our little rain pet project so we're back out here with some really just nice weather and we're getting this outdoor kitchen built from the kitchen what we're doing here all we're gonna have is a grill and an access door in here so nothing too crazy it's gonna be pretty sweet so um once we get a couple more of these components kind of built the sidewalls we'll show you exactly how this goes together

5:01 [Music] hey what are you doing there sean oh um i'm actually getting ready to uh prep for all of these decorators riser lights that we're gonna be putting in so this is a little bit complicated because we have these wrap around stairs whenever

5:48 we have these you can see each tread is a little bit longer than the one before it we don't want to just do straight lines we want to stagger them and it just looks a little bit nicer so what i like to do start on my middle riser i find my middle point that's right there and then we do an offset off of that so right now i'm doing the three foot spacing between lights so i pulled three feet off in both directions so on this riser right in between these two lights and then from this one to this one we have that three foot spacing and then it's going to be the same on this bottom riser what do you think [Music] that's good so you can see because we staggered them we have this our top and bottom riser are lining up but because this one is

6:34 about two feet longer we get an extra light here so it looks like it cascades down this corner but all the spacing is still the same if you have them just in straight lines it gets really wacky looking in this corner because you could either go light light light but then you have this big open space and it just looks a little a little weird so we like to do it like this on wrap around stairs and uh a lot of lights going in here [Music]

7:29 got a little tip for you when you're installing treads so we have a detail of a five and a half inch deck board a 3 16 inch gap a two and a half two and five eighths rip tundra deck board and another 16 gap that equals up to about eight and five eighths so what i like to do is i'll cut a spacer block eight and five eighths and i'll install i'll just rest these and butt my treads to them so i can keep a nice even reveal i started my miter i don't know if you can see but it's not as tight as i would like there's like a little bit of a gap there what's happening is this deck board is kind of bowed in a little bit once i slap this in it kicks it out

8:15 now that's super tight we've got some more lights going across this set of steps we've got almost all of the lights installed so now we just have to hook them together and you can see each light i'll pop this out so you see we've got our little trim piece here this also comes in white and black with each set so you can choose whether you want the darker or the lighter trim piece then our light just pops right in there so we've got this lead on the end of each light and we're working from this way back because that's where we're going to tie into the transformer so we just have this hanging out the back we put this splitter on it

9:01 and all this stuff comes inside the kit just plug and play now we'll go from our previous light you can see this also has the splitter on it connect this in and you can see how easy this is just plug and play gonna go into our next light into this side of the splitter just kind of twist and push on there good to go and now you'll see we're left with another piece here and that's going to connect to our next light so they just wire all together and

9:47 then you pick your spot where you want to tie it into your transformer they do come with a transformer kit for these lights but we're going to have a ton of landscape lighting so we're going to tie it in a little bit differently to a larger transformer so we'll show you that when we get to it but super easy i really love the connection system we'll finish wiring these up we'll tack up all our wires get them off the ground we'll be good to go next step here is to start on this patio we've got the deck almost wrapped up so we're going to jump fully into the pavers we've got stone coming we've got half of our taco block order here but you're gonna have to wait for the next vlog to jump into all of that so make sure you hit subscribe stay tuned and until next time this is premiere outdoor living