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Title: minimum framing for deck?
Post by: optionguru on April 19, 2007, 01:32:05 PM

I'm looking to put in a very basic 16 x 16 freestanding deck / platform at my camp. It will just be a nice level area to put a picnic table on and set up the camp stove. The ground is damp so I figured I would dig some holes and use 12 inch sonatubes and connect to 4x4's. How many footings do you think I need, this won't be supporting much weight, other than me :) How would you frame it?

I should add that I've built a few decks and I think I tend to overbuild them, so I'm really looking for some best practices type of information.

Thanks,
Peter

Title: Re: minimum framing for deck?
Post by: MountainDon on April 19, 2007, 02:09:32 PM

Some of my bookmarked links on decks

http://www.decks.com/Calculators/JoistSpan.aspx?
http://www.dulley.com/deck/deck01.shtml

http://www.trex.com/deckdesigner/ online designer. once you know your footing depths, etc. this will produce 3D online rotatable drawings, as well as documentation in PDF form with views, cut lists, etc.

Title: Re: minimum framing for deck?
Post by: optionguru on April 20, 2007, 12:02:53 PM

thanks for the info.

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