Welding the deck

Here's a little insight in what we are doing. Please don't show this to your local professional welder, he might get upset. Still we do what we can and it will be good enough.
As you see it turned out there wasn't only small holes where the rivets were, but also more serious problems. This is a series of photographs I took while putting a new piece of steel in the deck.

Under a railingpole I found this hole. I cut the weak part out.
Pretty rusty.

I cut out a new piece from a steel plate.

And it fits! Now it' only a matter of welding.

I attach the plate at two points to fixiate it in the right position.

And here we go.

Turns out I should have cut out a little more, it's still a little thin there. Well, it's learning by doing...

...and it was 40 degrees hot.