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Originally Posted by Bankai
How'd your deck turn out?
Just finished mine yesterday and I am now going to be staining it in the next couple days! Very excited as its the first deck I've built completely by myself.
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Dang that's a nice deck and a nice backyard you have. I am just putting on the railings and the stairs hopefully this coming week. I'll take a picture when I get home. BTW are you located in ambleside? And again, great job on the deck man!
But I do have a question for all. I at first was going to build a 10'x12' deck but during building we pushed it out to a 12'x12' deck. We used 3 screw piles that went down ~4' spaced 4-5' apart. We used 2 2x8 as beams and ran 2x8 joists spaced 16" OC. My problem is that there's a bit of a bounce. I tried doing blocking between the joists but that didn't help much.
From what I read it is due to the long span of the 2x8 joists. And according to the city of Edmonton's code, the max span is 11' 7" where I'm right about a 11'. I'm thinking of adding another set of beams at 5', but can I use deck blocks for these?
https://www.edmonton.ca/documents/PD...on_handout.pdf
According to this it seems I can run a 24x24" patio slab and a deck block on top? I tried contacting the edmonton permit office but for decks under 6' they don't touch the foundation so they were not particularly helpful.
Would anyone run another set of 2 2x8 beams ontop of deck blocks? I'm just worried about frost heave.
Thanks!