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Building & Maintaining Docks: How to Design, Build, Install & Care for Residential Docks

Building & Maintaining Docks: How to Design, Build, Install & Care for Residential Docks
By Chris Lamping

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Millions of homes are situated along the shores of rivers, lakes and other bodies of water, and a large number of these have (or very much need) a dock. Some docks serve as boat landings, others as fishing piers, still others as platforms for recreational swimming and sunning, and some as places for relaxed entertaining decks over water. Building & Maintaining Docks is a guide book for planning, designing, building, and maintaining any type of dock, both for primary residences and vacation homes. Heavily illustrated with color photography, and featuring the latest technologies in dock construction and building materials, this book will both inspire and educate.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #261062 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-02-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages

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Chris Lamping is an accomplished craftsman and writer.

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Good Book4
Do not buy a pre-built dock. They are generally flimsy and too expensive.

While I've built a few over the years, I purchased this book to learn about docks and it was a good book if you want to build from the ground up.

Rule #1, use good wood, treated and let it weather one season before painting. Red barn paint works well but it does make it hot on your feet in the Summer.

Rule #2, use quality hardware.

Rule $3, get a bucket to put parts in that hangs from the dock posts when you are installing, or mount it in the middle of an inner-tube.

I found this Field and Stream article and a vendor of dock parts that I used for my dock. I found RDS to be a good supplier with fine quality product.
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I spent about $1800 to outfit 7 sections, less the wood which I sourced locally. When you stand on the dock it's like standing on concrete.

Building & Maintaining Docks: How to Design, Build, Install & Care for Residential Docks3
Book covers all topics I was interested in but devotes considerable more pages to which dock type and design and less to the actual construction than I expected and desired.

Building & Maintaining Docks: How to design, build, install & care for residential docks1
As a Landscape Architect I found the book helpful and very simple to use and browse through. It is a good resource. It would be helpful to have some construction sections or details illustrating construction techniques. Also having a resource guide in the back for manufacturers and supplies would be useful.