Deck Framing New House

Hi, I'm Tim Carter, AskTheBuilder.com, here at the new home site, and let's talk a little bit

about the deck. They've got it all framed. I don't think they're finished yet. There's still a few

details they have to work out, but there's a lot to look at. Remember, I'm not building this home

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Let's check out the deck framing. This is a pretty big deck. It's an L-shaped deck. This is the back of the house. And right here

Here, they've cut it out, there's going to be a double, like a French door that you can

walk out of here. Maybe it's a single door, I can't remember, out onto the deck here

But this deck here sticks out about eight feet, pretty much useless

If you want to put a table anywhere on a deck, the deck has got to come out at least 12 feet

Ten foot's not enough, and this only looks like it's eight feet. But then you can see the rest of the deck, pretty big, pretty big

from here to all the way down to the end, good chance that's about 36 feet. And here's what's

kind of unique. It's going to be really nice in the summertime. They've completely covered. They've

got a roof over the entire deck. And it's going to be not bad. I mean, I've lived here on this

street for 12 years, and what's going to happen in the summertime in June, the sun is going to rise

is right about here and it gonna kinda go up So in June this deck will be it pretty much be in the shade but in the early or late part of the spring late part of the summer you going to be in the sun here Just like now you can

see the sun is right there in the sky and that's November, November 5th. So, but not many people

are out in November. We have some unseasonably warm weather happening right now. All right

but let's talk a little bit about the deck. First of all, they've got this giant triple 2x12

that runs all the way along here. They have it supported with a 6x6 here. They've got that done

right. They've got a post base there. They have a metal Simpson post base under that

little post as well. That's good. And they have one here too. not real happy with this detail here I don't know what they're gonna do there's no joist

hanger here oh yes there is I take it back look at that they put a double in they have a double

choice hanger that goes to here and that's how the the weight of this beam is being transferred

over to this very very long giant you know OSB paralem beam it's it's it's huge you know look at

the size of that beam you know out here and huge that big parallel parallel it's a kind of an

interesting word all right but anyway let's look more at the post here see what they did right

I'm actually kind of surprised once again they've got a post base they've got a metal connector

connecting this post to the pier. That's good. And they did the right thing here

They've got a metal connector plate to connect the post to the beam. Many places

I seen around here they just nail this They don use this This is a really good idea That the way it should be done They got them on all the posts So that a really really good thing Back here though a little bit of a problem in my opinion I noticed this the other day So what they done to try to protect the sheathing on the house is

before they put the ledger board on, sorry you're getting blown up by the Sun, they put this grace

icing water shield on. All right, not a bad idea. But they just, I know the Sun's blowing you out

I know you can't see this. They just nailed I'm trying there we go. They just nailed

This ledger board to the wall frame inside and I guess every now and then they put a big timber screw

That's really a bad idea. This needs to be through bolted. You need to through bolt

Ledger boards, you know onto houses. It's that simple Nailing and screwing like that is not acceptable, in my opinion, and most engineers would agree

And at this point, they have not yet put joist hangers on, and I think they're going to come

back and do that, and the reason why is they're doing it every place else. I'll go and show you

Let's go around and look at the small section of the deck. First of all, all these George Tangers are in this box, and they've just not yet put them on

And you can see here at this other end of the long deck, they've started to put them on

You know, they just got a few on. They haven't fixed them all yet. You can actually see what happened

They were putting them on all the way down here on this long part of the deck

And of course it was Friday yesterday And then all the rest of these they've yet to put them on

So I know they're gonna put them on And it looks like they're using the correct nails

Although you should use the Simpson little lag bolts here Nails are really the wrong way to go They kind of switched away from joist hanger nails and it best to put these small inch and a half

structural little lag bolts that Simpson Strong Tie sells. So make sure you do that on your deck

All in all, they're not doing a bad job on this deck. These carpenters

while they can't speak english uh they're doing a pretty good job all kind of just minor things

that i would would really kind of want to change i can tell you that this particular job probably

would give it a b plus overall they still have a few more days of work i suspect it's going to

take them one more week and they'll be pretty much finished so it's been i think they've been

on the job maybe three weeks almost a month that's a there's a lot of wood in this house i'm telling

right now. I don't know what the lumber package cost. I'm just taking a wild guess that the lumber

on this particular job could have been $50,000. But I may be wrong. Could be high, could be low

But I don't track the lumber and it goes up and down. But I'm just telling you there is a lot of

lumber in this home and a lot of engineered lumber. If you have any questions, if you need help on your

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you faster. I'm Tim Carter, askthebuilder.com. If you want to discover more home improvement

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