https://youtu.be/6DiWO0qTi7I

Here’s a video on how you can refinish the edges if they need to be redone

I'm also in southern Ontario and planning a deck build. Was thinking blocks, but will probably do footings.

Instead of an auger, go to home depot and rent the little skid steer thing with an auger on it. They're fairly cheap and you get the pleasure of a machine doing all the hard work for you. Bonus points for it because they usually send it on a trailer with a little bucket too so you can easily deal with the dirt from the hole.

You need to penetrate below the frost line regardless of how far off the ground the deck is.

Not really. I had one with medium sized rocks and it was not much different than cleaning any other grouted tile. I lived in a very dry climate though, might have been worse somewhere humid.

Primer, two coats of a decent quality undercoat. Wait for it to fully dry, then light sand before topcoat.

Northern Minnesotan here. I’ve had good luck using deck blocks. Just dig a little hole/trench, fill with play sand, tamp down, and place deck blocks.

The shits going to move regardless. After the first few winters you’ll need to shim around a bit, but after that you should be fine.

Except this is wrong

Hahaha I suppose that would work.

I should clarify that when I rotated it 180 degrees to fix it I only used the cartridge extraction tool to rotate the inner “piston” part. Should I have pulled out the entire thing and rotated it?

Take it back apart and spin the cartridge clockwise 180 degrees. You just installed it upside down.

What kind of deck? Drip through decking or vinyl? If you go the deck block route I’d still dig down a few feet and compact gravel in the hole then put the block on that. I would also make it a free standing structure and not attach it to the house via a ledger. I would still advise the concrete route though.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but frost makes decks miserable if there's no footings

Use a waterproof pen to change the hot cold sign.

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You would go down 4ft for a deck that is 18 inches off the ground?

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I meant for shaving lol

Yes

The house I’m in has a built in bench with a crack running along one edge. I don’t like to think what might be growing down there.

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Thank you for this. We were toying with the idea, so no doubt we'll do something in the future

Frame a floating bench into the wall. That is what I did to avoid messing with the pan.

Fold u seat. Better and safer.

A window this size isn’t an egress window to begin with.

Oh for sure...looks nice!

Can you post a pic of the fire pit?