Did this at my grandpa's place before. We replaced everything except for the support posts and joists, and just flipped the face boards around the edge of the deck. 1/2 the work, and it all looked brand new when we were done.

You need to replace the whole cartridge.

If you have a deck that may be covered by a roof, it may not be needed. It’s really only the last 15(?) years or so that’s it’s been more commonly used. The joist tape is used to protect the top face of the joist and employs a self sealing bituminous strip to seal around the fasteners and help keep the top of the joists from degrading too soon. It’s fairly cheap insurance, but it’s also worth noting that decks were built with pressure treated lumber for decades before this technology. I have never had a deck fail because I didn’t use it.

Arduino is overkill.. you can buy multicolor LED light strips with remote control for $10-20. The LED strips with sticky backing can be trimmed to length, so I’d give that a try.

Unless you just really want to do an arduino project.

More like a Low ambiant light so yes?. I'm thinking of programming arduino so I can change light colors

Are you a renter? Don't mess with that, find another place to do pull ups.

Found a baby doll head on a hike. How do I turn it into a lamp? The inside of the head has two bulging mounds of plastic where the eyes are. How do I remove them?

Picture of the ceiling and steel beam

Same, but this really depends a lot on how close to the ground the deck is. My parents had a multi-level deck and the ground-level portion rotted after about 20 years. The upper level portion will probably last 100; the joints still look new @ 25 years.

Hard to give any advice without some dimensions, but I’d start out looking for LED lights that would fit inside the head/neck opening.

This will be a nightlight?

> It won’t let me post a picture

Just FYI, you can absolutely post pics here. Just paste the link into your text.

Lasers?

Seconding this. My first thought was that you might have a roof leak. Water travels the path of least resistance, so a roof leak could trickle down to some different areas of the house, especially if it "pools" somewhere before making it's way down to lower spots.

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This is the first I’m learning of joist tape and I wanted to ask a question without hijacking OPs post:

Are there any situations where the joist tape isn’t indicated? I’m getting ready to replace the decking on a floating dock.

I agree the most likely cause is a leaking roof. When my roof has leaked the water has come out the windows/basement as it runs down the insides of the walls.

OP, if you can get on a ladder and take a look at the roof in the general area(s) you're seeing water, it might be obvious where the water is coming in, or it might not, but it's a good place to start. (Common causes include ice dams, missing shingles, leaking around things coming out of the roof like exhausts or vents, leaking around things attached to the roof like guy wires or satellite dishes).

I did not but I agree the wood was much too beautiful to paint and with the natural finish it is close enough in color to match the floors so I figured, why not?

Wood looks OK

One thing I can’t see from this photo is the ledger board. Take a good look post demo to make sure it was properly installed. While unlikely, it’s not necessarily uncommon for people to cut corners on deck installs.

Ledger board should be secured using staggered lag bolts in two rows. Various code depictions can be found online. What can sometimes happen is installers won’t stagger the bolts either correctly, or at all.

Beside this take a look at the hangers and make sure everything is abutting correctly and not pulled away from the ledger. Another common oversight is installers won’t fully attach hangers. Again, code depictions are online.

All of these build issues should be inspected/corrected now before you spend time or money on new decking.

Be sure you have enough clearance for the dishwasher to open fully. (The cabinet doors on the far right.) Depending on the swing of the fridge you may need to have a little spacer there as well.

Reminds me of a friend shopping for a roof: 30 years! Do you have 10 year shingles? I'm so cheap I don't want to pay for stuff when I'm dead.

It might well depend on where the water is coming from. Since you stated the leaks started after or during a rain storm, and you mentioned having water leaking out of an internal wall... Then you either have a leaking/broken water pipe or more likely a leaking roof.

As someone else here mentioned, find and read over the physical copy of your insurance policy. Insurance companies do seem to have a tendency of writing and pushing policies that have exclusions for the things you end up needing the most.

I was going to replace mine with composite, on demo day we pulled up some of the old boards and chunks of the joists came with. The deck was 5 years old. Guess the guy who built it didn't use treated wood.

That is one weird policy. I'd read it myself.