{"id":14691,"date":"2014-06-03T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=14691"},"modified":"2014-05-12T16:38:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T23:38:28","slug":"deckkeeper-tie-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/deckkeeper-tie-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Deckkeeper Tie-Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My deck is raised off the ground by about 4 feet and there is an above ground pool built into the deck.  Every spring and every fall, I struggle to open\/close the pool. The big headache is securing a tarp to cover the pool.<\/p>\n<p>When I had pressure treated decking, I would just screw some hooks into the decking and use some bungee cords to secure the tarp.  I recently replaced the pressure treated boards with composite decking. There is no way I&#8217;m going to drill holes into my beautiful boards!<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve struggled with securing the tarp.  I attached bungies to the railing, I secured it through the boards under the deck, you name it.  All of these solutions took time, effort and were simply not easy.  I had to find a better way!<\/p>\n<p>I heard about these DeckKeeper Tie Down devices from Ask This Old House a few years ago.  They slip between the boards, include bungee cords to attachment and protect the surface of the deck.   I bought them from Amazon and closed the pool this fall using them.  What a difference!  I secured the tarp in the a few minutes, I didn&#8217;t have to crawl under the deck. <\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep deck furniture from blowing over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14693,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions\/14693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}