Building a new deck
Freakin search function, could have sworn I have seen threads on this.
Anyhoo, I am wanting to rip out my current deck and build a new one. Hoping someone here may be able to suggest a good book on the subject or perhaps a website of sorts?
Nothing complicated. I currently live in a condo that has a smaller backyard. The enitre back yard is deck save for a section of soil that has a couple shrubs growing out of it. Dimensions are approx 20'x15'. The current deck is supported by those concrete tiles most people make sidewalks out of. Kinda dumb as they are not really meant to carry that kind of weight I don't think.
So bascially it is just a replacement and I want to put the new one in on similar supports but ones actually meant for a deck. I guess there are pylons of sorts that take the place of the poured concrete ones you usually see under decks.
Just bascially wondering what the procedure is for preparing the actual soild under the deck. My tentative plan is:
-Tear out old deck
-Remove old concrete tiles
-Grade the soil so it's even and then pound it down?
-Dig 1 foot deep holes where I want the new support pylons to go
-Fill bottom of said holes sand and then fill in holes with gravel
-Place new pylons on gravel and build deck from there
Sound about right?
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