A Concrete-Free Deck Foundation

A Concrete-Free Deck Foundation

This grade-level freestanding deck is supported by metal post anchors and steel plates instead of concrete piers.

California builder Richard Houghton is my kind of guy … literally. And he’s your kind of guy too, if one of our recent Reader’s Surveys – which found that more than 80% of PDB readers (or at least the PDB readers who responded to this particular poll question) are over the age of 50 – is accurate. So when he told me that he had come to dread digging deep holes and lugging heavy bags of concrete for footings, I could relate. That’s a young man’s game.

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