How To Build A Composite Deck | Framing | THE HANDYMAN

this is video 2 of the deck build and it's all about the framing the next video you pay attention will be tomorrow and that will be all about the decking and the hidden fasteners this one's all about framing I did somehow leave out how I'm made the beams together those are glued first they're glued nailed and then screwed that's just how I do it in this particular deck build that double beam isn't really necessary I'll dull draw a diagram of why I normally use a double beam but first I want to start out with this picture here okay this is the ground this is your hole that you dig and it's you know it's always going to have a little arc at the sides now your forum tube that saw no tube doesn't go all the way down to the bottom this it's called concrete form tube so that just sticks up you know maybe six to eight inches below the ground and a lot of times you can jam like a rock or a stick in there just to hold it firm and then you just level it with your level you know on the top or you know maybe a little one on the side now you I have seen way way a long time ago wood posts four by four posts buried into the concrete just like you would a mailbox or a fence but that's not how you're supposed to do it you use a metal post based if you go to the Isle and Home Depot where they have all their Simpson hangers you'll find post bases for 4x4 and 6x6 --is I never ever use a 4x4 post to build a deck the deck that you're watching now doesn't have posts it's as low to the ground as possible but I still use a post base the depth and I've worked for deck builders I mean that's what I did in college and you go as deep as you can there's the letter of the law there's it's the rule you're supposed to go down to below frost line so if your frost line is 40 inches deep you want to go deeper than that the reason behind that is in the northern climates when things freeze and thaw freeze and thaw this can get heaved up out of the ground I personally never seen anything major like major heaving like where it goes up 10 inches or anything like that well that's what you're supposed to do most deck builders just goes deep as they can what else permits came up quite a bit as a question hey I live in a very free state where there is very low regulation both in your economic freedoms and your personal freedoms so if you live in New York right that's where I built the most decks is in the state of New York where there is a ton of regulation you might have to get a permit to buy a box of screws if someone pointed out in a in a comment on one of the other videos if it's not attached to a actual residence you don't need a permit now residents being a habitable house if you make it freestanding and below a certain height you don't need a permit and most people just don't pull permits any anyways my history with deck building in college is when I got the most condensed I guess education in it not in a classroom or in the summer times I worked for a huge builder on the East Coast and they were one of they're like small projects was tearing down and rebuilding decks on apartment buildings and they they started the second floor the first floor just was a slab of concrete sliding glass doors come out then there was a second floor deck and a third floor deck the apartment building was from the 70s and everything was rotting being in the East Coast such as how things go so my job was to tear them down and rebuild brand new decks the new decks were wood framed non-treated because of all the the flashing and the wrapping it was kind of a unique deck bill but it was not treated wood everything was sleeved in vinyl the deck boards were vinyl and the deck boards were actually screwed down to plywood that had ice and water shield over the top of it kind of getting off on a tangent that's what I did every day all day was tear down decks and rebuilt decks and I got pretty good at it and then I would go back in wintertime and build new decks second and third story decks on new apartment buildings and that's when I learned that you do not want to work by the hour and I went to him I said I won't work by the hour anymore I want to I want a fixed price for a complete turnkey done tore down and rebuilt second and third story deck is this working for I mean this was a long time ago I was like $15 an hour and I was like this is ain't worth it I can build these decks twice as fast as he's drunk bums that you got working on the next building and I said okay came up with a number since that was in school to be a construction manager I came with like this this really strict schedule critical path schedule just for a deck and man I was I was busting these decks out in I'd have the entire deck tore down and a half a day and it mostly framed by middle of the next day I mean it was three days and I was tearing decks down and building 2nd and 3rd story decks my biggest holdup was getting enough material from the Builder ok here's a diagram of a raised deck so you don't want it low to the ground this would be your 6x6 post this would be your case on this is your post base and at the top here this is how I always do it and like I said I used six by sixes I notch out the post and rest the beam inset into that notch and then bolt it to the post maybe in the future we'll build a deck or I also do my covered patios like this so I have my posts and my big beams and then your roof rafters would come down and rest right on your beam there okay twelve footers are in and I got four sixteen footers and I can't wait to set them on top of these caissons here and put a level on it see if that laser that I had there did its job [Applause] okay got you up close this is the middle case on teller look at that okay well they're all touching your bouncy sagging gotta see this this is awesome some real time I didn't do this beforehand make sure that it was going to be that perfect that is dead level over 16 feet how's my hair look okay as of right now all the framings delivered all the hangers and brackets and bases are here still deciding on color of the deck boards I brought four samples over and he's deciding on them by tomorrow afternoon just laid out all the joists on a 16 inches on center starting on this side will have less than 16 inches between the last joist and the outside rim joist there these ones are cut and this one is cut run out of room to stack these so I'm going to start tacking them in that's something else I do a little bit different is I'll tack these in so that they are perfectly flush the top edge of the joist in the top edge of the beam here either I'll toenail them or shoot them in like through the top there and then I will come back and and put my hangers out underneath and attach those with my my palm nailer oh my battery's run a little low but I am going to be installing all the joist hangers now they're all laid out and so place your bets how long is going to take me to install all the joist hangers there's two different size nails one and a half's and two and a half it's currently 742 p.m. I think it's gonna take me 30 minutes I'm shooting for 30 minutes to have all the hangers on okay reset the timer had to go get a new battery it's 7:40 4 p.m. [Music] [Music] age 15 but is he 31 minutes and even having to go flip the breaker back on so I'm gonna put blocking in the middle being so low to the ground it really doesn't matter but I don't know what type of crazy dance parties they're gonna have out there hidden behind the garage so I want to make sure it's done extra sturdy that's all for now so today is the start of day 4 keep in mind on day two I didn't do any work all I did was purchase and deliver the framing to this area so I have six hours on Monday we'll call it two hours on Tuesday yesterday was Wednesday that's the day that I got held up at Home Depot and worked about 11 hours total and today I think it will be four hours is what I'm estimating you can do the math and figure out what the total time to build this is and what do we have here this is an antique relic that I take with me to work that is what I keep in my workshop but I brought it with me today there is a major difference between these two and I'm not going to try to tell you that this is just as good as this because this yeah it's it's adequate for most jobs but this here is just super so when I install all these deck boards they're going to be left long on that side and I will put a straight edge down and cut off the excess with this saw mainly because it does have the high tooth count blade on this particular saw it spins faster it's got more torque it will zip through this composite decking and create a laser cut line I'm gonna put my blocking in and that blocking although not really necessary it is how you're supposed to build a deck right now it's it's rock-solid but if you get a lot of people up here you know you never know what these customers are gonna do they could have a could be out here square dancing or something and they get bouncing up and down on this thing well these boards here these joists with the bounce and the stopping and all that can start to bend out they can go down and flex or either way so what the bracing does is just make it so that there is no give there's no way for this to flex out so that's that's on today's list and what else is on today's list make sure it's square even though I did square it up yesterday you take measurements Diagon Alley from corner to corner and a crisscross pattern and you just kind of kick it until those measurements are exactly the same and now when they're the exact same I will install these post bases here get those fastened into the concrete and then fastened to the beam one of the last steps is will be me setting this inside and making those you know one making one beam out of two pieces of wood so that's that's four that's what we're doing today now I'm gonna use this one here and see with them since it's got a full battery keep in mind this is a fine a high tooth count I don't know maybe 40 tooth count so it's not meant for cutting through lumber like this the blade but let's just see who didn't even really slow down at all ago I'm gonna cut blocks lay them all out and then I'll be nailing them in they'll be a little bit staggered so that I can get the nail gun in each each bay here goal is to meet the customer at 6:00 p.m. tonight and help them move all their barbecue and their furniture out here well I'm gonna keep going because there are a lot of times there are these strange unknowns that just pop up out of nowhere and can really slow you down and you don't predict it at all so I'm not going to get lazy or anything and just keep chugging along first dozenal was to 33 in the quarter this one ah with a quarter inch of the square so I'm gonna give this a kick this way 1/8 of an inch 1/8 inch boot that's it I'm all set to put the first row in and this is what a starter strip looks like source starter fastener I didn't tell you about my home depot experience getting these deck boards that were kind of sprung on me the morning that I was supposed to go pick up different deck boards at a different home depot I got a text from the customer that says that they changed their mind and bought different deck boards from a different home depot and it was a fiasco so I got a little bit behind on my schedule so I had to turn the camera off a little bit more during the framing but if you got questions leave them in the comment section below oh and thanks for everybody who signed up on Instagram

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Keywords: how to build a deck, how to frame a deck, how to build a composite deck, composite decking, fiberon decking, budget deck, diy deck, home improvement, home remodeling, diy projects, handyman projects, how much does it cost to build a deck, workshop, carpenter, carpentry, deck building business, wood deck vs. composite deck, deck building, deck permit, deck framing

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Length: 21min 3sec (1263 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 26 2018