How To Build A Deck!! Layout, Framing, and Composite Decking Guide ||| DIY Deck Build

hey guys my name is Bart Kumar and in this video I'm gonna show you guys exactly how I built this low level deck and cover it with composite decking we're gonna talk about how to lay it out so your deck is actually square the framing of the structure and the decking material how to install it but first let me show you why we're building this neck because it came from a need and not a walk you guys all understand in a second [Music] for hey you see this why'd you always have to poop right outside the door you know I'm gonna do my build a deck all through here he doesn't care anyways we're gonna build a deck right in front of door so he has to find a new pooping spot welcome to the comb art project this is all your fault are you gonna clean this up all right so this is the back of our suburban home nothing special about it just a rectangular building but we're gonna be given a huge transformation by adding a large composite deck that's gonna give us years of maintenance-free enjoyment in the backyard the plan is to have it framed with traditional pressure-treated lumber and deck it with composite decking from tracks to start the prep work I wanted to make sure that no weeds actually grow through the deck so I used the grass killer to spray the lawn area where the deck is going to be next I needed a layout of the dimensions for the deck and somehow I lost footage of the actual layout so I'm gonna be breaking down the process on a smaller scale for you guys but this is exactly the same thing that I did so I know I want my death to be 18 by 24 feet and to help make sure it's square and to mark the location on my post I made a couple of bad words and all this is is just a couple of pieces of scrap wood that you screwed together into a u-shape and then later pound it into the ground and you're going to need eight of these batten boards to help with the layout so after you get them all put together you hammer them into the ground around where the deck is going to be two on each corner making an L shape then you can tie four pieces of string to the battens that are facing each other and what this does is it allows you to move the string from side to side to make sure that your deck is square and to check for square of a rectangle or square you measure from corner corner across the rectangle and again on opposite corners if your measurements are exactly the same you're good your square if not you can just adjust the string left or right until you get the same exact measurement from corner to corner then using the string as a reference I spray-painted the location of the corners for the deck and all my post locations next clean the exhausting task of digging all the post holes and to help with that I rented a gas auger this is one of those tools that if you're building a large deck like I am is absolutely indispensable we live right outside of Chicago so our winters can be pretty cold and our required hole depth is 42 inches deep so hand digging all these holes would be back-breaking now before starting a project like this I would definitely call Julie and check all your local codes also contacting your local building department may save you lots of headaches and structural mistakes before you start next I needed to pour the concrete from my frost footings the frost footing is a chunk of concrete no less than six inches thick that you post sits on inside the hole it also needs to sit below the frost line so my actual hole death was 48 inches I'm using about a third of a bag per post and then I just add some water and mix it directly in the hole I know what you guys are thinking [Music] good ok I'm done with the frost footings it's 10 o'clock at night but at least tomorrow I'm gonna be able to start framing put my posts in and build in the deck Oh glory days for my posts I'm using 10-foot treated 4x4 posts that I cut in half this way I don't have to worry about calculating the height right now and it leaves me with plenty of posts worker and once my deck is completely framed I can trim them to the height of the deck you guys I'll see you love that later what I mean next I set my posts in the holes using this string from the batten boards as a reference make sure they are plumped with a post level backfill them with dirt and pack them down really well with the back end of a post utility bar I'll have a link to it and all the tools and materials I used on this build in the description below and with that I had all my post set and it was time to spend some quality time with honey-bunny and trying to teach Thor how to climb a ladder like the agile and nimble beast that he is after having some family fun it was time to get the height of where that duct framing is actually going to be in reference to my back door now I could have done this next step with a laser but I figured not everybody has one so I marked the closest post using a level then using a long straight two-by-four I screwed one end of it to the post and clamp the other one with a clamp I then place the level on top of the 2x4 now my bubble in the middle and I knew I was good from post to post then I just repeated the process till all my posts were mark with the height of the deck ok time to start framing this is my favorite part of the entire project because its framing it's rough right you screw up by a little bit you can fix it since I'm working mostly by myself on this project and holding a 16 foot 2 by 8 is not easy I screwed a scrap piece of wood to one end of the post unlike my outside ledger on top of it then I could nail it to the post using three and a quarter inch hot dip nails now these nails are just holding the ledger in place for me I'm going to come back later and screw lag bolts in for structural strength I then repeated the same process for all the Ledger's around the deck since my deck is too large to span the 2 by 8 joists all the way from end to end I needed to split the deck in half according to my local codes so in the middle of my deck I'm constructing a sandwich beam or some people call it a double beam basically you install a ledger on both sides of your posts in the middle of deck and run joists from them this is going to allow me to add shorter joists at each side of the beam and still maintain the deck size now to figure out a way around this concrete step that we have outside of our door to do this I'm going to construct a beam that will sit under the ledger and span the length of the deck this beams gonna let me run joists on top of it all the way up to the house with a short can deliver and when I get to the step I can just notch a few of them this is gonna make total sense in just a minute after all my beans are installed I can finally cut off the tops of all the posts that were left over and start laying out the joist locations I hooked my tape measure to the end of the deck and placed a mark every 16 inches then with a carpenter's square I transfer the line down on the ledger this way I know that the joist is gonna be square to the frame and I repeat the same thing on the BB then I pre-drill holes for all my lag bolts these are self tapping 5/16 by 4 inch ceramic coated construction legs made by powerful and are awesome for deck building next I cut all my choice to fit between the ledgers if your deck is square the joists should all be the same dimension but if not don't worry about it just cut them all individually then I told nail each joist to hold it in place and use the speed prong on the joist hanger while I nail it in place using inch and a half galvanized nails just make sure you put a nail in every single hole of that hanger for the joists sitting on the beam I used hurricane straps to hold them in place all right when you're installing these raft of joists make sure you put them on the opposite sides of each other let me show you so this joist here I put both rafter joists on the same side and watch it wobble is fairly easy to make it move right now on ones that I put one here and one on the opposite side this thing is absolutely sturdy it is not going so make sure you're doing it this way and not this way we're they're both on the same side next using the circular saw in a jigsaw I matched out the joists that are going over the concrete step and install them in the same way as the others and then guys is just a repetitive process of cutting and nailing until you have all of your joists in place and before you know it it's time to install a deck but before I could do that I had to put down some landscape fabric to ensure that the weeds don't grow through and then I covered it with a ton of gravel and I literally mean a ton of gravel this will ensure that the fabric stays in place and doesn't rip and blow away over time [Music] after what felt like a million barrels of gravel I started working on the stairs since my yard slopes quite a bit from the house which is great with drainage but difficult for figuring out stringers I went with a simple box construction to support my stairs I'm installing some 18 by 18 concrete pavers every six feet I used paper gravel to level them out and made sure they were even with my deck all the way around [Music] after a concrete paver is Rome place I could install the 2 by 816 treated boards to make up the frame and my stairs this worked out perfectly since my stairs are seven and a half inches tall and I didn't even need to rip down to two by eight since each two by eight is seven and a half inches after I had the bottom stuff installed honey-bunny joining me with her sexy tool belt to cut all the support pieces which are 16 inches apart I can't tell you guys how much I appreciate it when she comes out to help me on the project not only do we finish them faster she makes me have a good time after giving our cat a heart attack we finished up all the bracing on the stairs and started working on the middle and the outside bracing of the deck this is where our two-toned border is gonna go to give the stairs a little pop I'm installing a white fascia from a Zack and to make the install easy the street packet comes with the screws obviously the correct fit and what looks like a little crack baggie with plugs to cover the screw holes to make it look seamless [Music] after the facial was installed I started working on the composite decking border which is coastal buff from trucks I've got 45 degree miter Xin the boards and pre-drill them on the corners before driving in the screws for the steps and on the inside of the deck we chose a color called saddle with the intent that the coastal Bluff and saddle will contrast each other enough to give the deck a little bit more character my connections were two boards me I like to reinforce the frame by adding some additional two-by-four pieces on both sides this way each board has its own backing and can be screwed down much easier next fighting the 100 degree weather laid out half of the 12-foot decking boards to be screwed down [Music] [Applause] yes Giovanni don't fumble and so I after cooling off a bit I used the round over bit in my router and gave the boards a soft round over where they meet the border for a smooth transition then using a hidden deck fastener we drove an inch and 7/8 edge deck screws made by camel this duct fastener is designed to drop a screw in on both sides of it and drive them into the side of the board using the provided bit with each box of screws now what's great about this tool is that you don't have to use it just on composite decking you can use it on regular treated board to get a nice concealed fastener appearance while honey bunny took her well-deserved decnet I went through and installed the rest of the planks on one side rip them down with my circular saw so I could put in the divider pieces using the same border color this creates a design feature and I don't have to join any boards together on the deck then it was back to screwing down the boards on the second part of the deck cut off the ends with my circular saw finish up my border and just like that this deck is gone that's it [Music] you [Music] so there you go guys the deck is finally complete and we couldn't be happier with the way it turned out but more importantly Thor actually found a new spot to go pee yeah there's no controlling a bulldog I've given up so the size of the deck is 18 by 24 with two steps down that wraparound on two sides on the opposite side we have some curved stairs that lead down to our patio area that area is still not finished because the bending of the composite decking is actually giving me some problems but as soon as I figure it out I'm gonna release that video for you guys so you can see how that process 1 so if you guys have any questions or need clarification on the process leave those comments down below and I'll get to them as soon as possible if you're new to the channel consider subscribing and hitting the bell notification so you don't miss upcoming builds thank you so much for joining me on this experience I'll see you guys next time okay so tonight I'm done with pouring my do you not like me dude liquor like a lollipop

Channel: Komar Project

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Length: 15min 41sec (941 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 26 2020