{"id":4866,"date":"2019-09-15T17:06:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2019-09-16T05:21:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:21:41","slug":"diy-4x8-floating-dock-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/diy-4x8-floating-dock-section\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY 4&#215;8 Floating Dock section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/8x8-floating-dock-section\/\">8&#215;8 floating dock section<\/a> was built from mostly salvage materials. I&#8217;m slowly adding sections until it reaches shore. Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t use the cylindrical foam floats as the base of walkways, as they will rotate\/spin in the water. (Also, I have plans for the other 2 cylindrical foam sections&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/First2Sections-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4871\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/First2Sections-cropped-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Two sections of floating dock on lake\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/First2Sections-cropped-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/First2Sections-cropped-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/First2Sections-cropped-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/First2Sections-cropped-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/First2Sections-cropped.jpg 1859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So this 4&#215;8&#8242; section of floating dock uses two commercial roto-molded dock float sections (48x24x16&#8243;), which drove the price up to around $680 in materials. (But I have a decent number of composite deck boards and hardware left for the next (3&#215;12&#8242;) section I plan on building. \u00a0 [Yes, every section of my dock will have a different width, deal with it.]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jeXHijctUX8?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last 8&#215;8 floating dock section was built from mostly salvage materials. I&#8217;m slowly adding sections until it reaches shore. Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t use the cylindrical foam floats as the base of walkways, as they will rotate\/spin in the water. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/diy-4x8-floating-dock-section\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-dock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}