Jaimie Johnston on the Engineering Matters podcast: #34 crisis shelter for mass displacement

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Then I just ironed gently on a fairly low setting.It worked like a charm!.

Once I had my pieces measured and cut, I got to use the hot glue!.The pieces were attached using a low-temp glue gun.They suggest not using a high temp because it will melt the styrofoam.

They also say that you should have a full-sized glue gun instead of a mini one.I don’t have a full-sized one, but being the hot glue enthusiast that I am, I have two glue guns.

I just plugged in both so I had plenty of glue at the ready.

It doesn’t take much!.But we mostly just had to buy deck screws, stain, and pretty decorations for fun.

So not thousands like we would have spent otherwise to get this deck in working order.).The most time consuming thing was cutting down all the old boards to make the spindles.

We really thought the wood was in horrible shape and that we’d need to buy new wood, but once we got started we realized we had more than enough good wood to do what we wanted, and then some!Changing out the railings from that tired-looking old lattice really made a big difference.. You could easily do the same thing with any deck by taking it apart and re-shaping it, or even just moving and re-sizing some stairs and railings.