Let the Games Begin!

I wandered by one glorious day in December to find the deck gone. Not only gone, but artfully deconstructed. At one point in my conversation with Dan, the expert deconstructor, I asked him to "toss" an old table that had been languishing outside for 6 months. He looked at me with shock, and replied "Nope." He continued on, explaining that the plastic laminate top could be torn off of the table and the rest of the materials salvaged. He's got five kids and I quote "Wants to be damn sure that there are some green spaces left for them." And that is why we hired a "green" contractor. It turns out that one of the most wasteful portions of the project is the deconstruction where, typically, everything is tossed into a dumpster. Dan had the deck materials separated into piles including scrap metal, reusable wood for us, wood that can be reused but not in our project, and trash. The last pile represented perhaps 10% of the total decking materials.