Prescriptive residential wood deck construction guide (with 2013 addendum)

[Rob_O]

Published by the American Wood Council, based on the 2009 IRC.

www.awc.org/publications/dca/dca6/dca6-09.pdf‎

[MountainDon]

That is a good one. Remember it is for decks, not cabins and not porches (with roofs).

If that link did not work try this one


and other good AWC references are here.

[hpinson]

What is different about a porch and a deck? Is it that the porch has a roof and has greater supporting load requirements?

[MountainDon]

Yes, and maybe walls too even if just screened in.

[Don_P]

Too large a file for me to download and review at the moment but a little behind the scenes gossip. There has recently been a study done on the relatively recent inclusion of lateral load connectors by WSU. They are not a bad thing at all, especially in new work where it is easy to incorporate,(remember how many folks fail to properly sheath a floor, this provides a positive connection of deck framing to floor framing, so not a bad idea) but the requirement (thou shall vs thou may) is being challenged and may be modified or go away in the 2015 code cycle.

And then there's balconies