A Concrete-Free Deck Foundation
This grade-level freestanding deck is supported by metal post anchors and steel plates instead of concrete piers.
By Andrew Wormer (see the original article on Professional Deck Builder)
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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Comments (2)
My husband and I have a deck patio, and we were thinking about adding a timber pergola to it as well. I like how you mentioned that we should consider where we will place it. It is true that the pergola shouldn’t disrupt the natural flow of foot traffic. We will have to make sure that we do a decent sized one so it won’t ruin the traffic we have.
Deb,
Thank you for the feedback and please let us know if we can be any help with choosing a project plan to fit your needs!
Team OZCO