Now that the floor frame was complete, it was time to move to the decking. My original plan was to use all pressure treated plywood that was left over from an old deck I disassembled about 6 years back. From my memory I had thought I had all 4 x 8 sheets of plywood to cover the whole deck. I wasn't really concerned about using pressure treated framing as it would have all been shielded from the elements. My memory wasn't as good as I thougth because the pieces were not true 4 x 8 pieces. They ended up being 48" x 90". 6 " shorter than I anticipated. Now I needed to come up with another plan. Let's do the floor of the building out of what little pressure treated plywood I had and do the wraparound decking out of 5/4' decking planks.
Because the frame was not built out of pressure treated lumber, I topped it off with strips of tar paper before laying any of the plywood and 5/4 " planking over it.
As you can see by the picture I scribed around the two trees leaving enough room for growth. I also made a trap door in front of the left tree which will eventually have ladder stairs coming up through.
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