This is the gazebo frame:
This is the deck upon which the gazebo frame sits after the winter of 2016-'17:
The boy and the girl that live on the same property understand two things:
(1) Feral cats like to get on the garage roof and jump on the gazebo roof. Their claws can puncture the gazebo roof. The bride has purchased a new gazebo roof. She doesn't want cats on her gazebo roof.
(2) I can grab some great 10X1 deck stuff from Home Depot and after some easy scraping and prepping I can make that cedar planking look brand new. The bride wants the deck scraped by pros at great expense and refinished to look like the shiny ass of a new-born baby.
Advice needed:
How do we keep cats off the gazebo roof without shooting them as they hop off the garage roof?
And how do I stop the teen bride from blowing tons of cash on the deck for a job I can do for under a hundred bucks?