Index of deck pages
Eon deck (best viewed with broadband at 1024 x 768)
Updated: November 23, 2004 Most of the thumbnails were eliminated and the pictures spread out across additional pages.
This page was part of an information page for my daughter to see what was going on at the house while she was away in college, and then it grew as questions were posted on the eon website.
As to the deck, I am neither a carpenter, mason or electrician, just homeowner who could not afford to pay to have a deck this size (16' x 40') installed, especially with a non- wood product.
Low voltage wiring is easy enough, as is running the conduit for the 110/220 stuff, but the actual hookup is being done by an electrician friend. "Electricity is not a hobby".
I sought advise from contractor friends along the way, and got a lot of useful info from Home Depot's Deck building book "Decks 1-2-3". When I ordered the materials, the sales person who took my order was actually a retired contractor who knew what he was doing and was very helpful with some design changes.
I used 2 deck building CAD programs, Home Depot's consumer version of DeckBot and Sierra's Home Designer. Neither one did everything I needed, but the 2 together were helpful. The Home Depot program is slow, even on a Dell P4 PC (3.2 GHz, 2 GB 800 MHz ram, 250 GB raid drive).