I'll start off by saying that I know fuck all about framing, carpentry, general terms and all that. I do metal, not wood.
My house is a split level, and originally had a little porch thing out of the back door upstairs, I assume built off of extended floor joists. Someone added another 3' and some stairs at some point. I need to replace my septic tank which is right under it, so it needs to come down. Plus it's rotten as shit in places, as in the paint is all that's holding the untreated wood together.
I'm going to build a new deck that extends over to the meter base area and out 20' or so. The structure itself is going to be made out of formed steel channels in sections that bolt together so that I can build them at the shop and set with an excavator since my yards gonna be torn up anyway. I'll drive piling with the excavator to support it all. Dad and I build docks for friends in the winter using this method which is why I'm going this route versus normal wood construction. Did I mention I don't like wood?
How do I tie it into the house? I can get fairly close to the house with the piling but the hammer takes up some space, plus I have water, septic, and gas right there so I can't put them just anywhere. The house is going to have to bear some of the load. The neighbors had a similar size deck built and it looks like they just screwed a whatever x whatever to the house with a beam over 3 piling supporting the other end and joists on top of those.
My house is a split level, and originally had a little porch thing out of the back door upstairs, I assume built off of extended floor joists. Someone added another 3' and some stairs at some point. I need to replace my septic tank which is right under it, so it needs to come down. Plus it's rotten as shit in places, as in the paint is all that's holding the untreated wood together.
I'm going to build a new deck that extends over to the meter base area and out 20' or so. The structure itself is going to be made out of formed steel channels in sections that bolt together so that I can build them at the shop and set with an excavator since my yards gonna be torn up anyway. I'll drive piling with the excavator to support it all. Dad and I build docks for friends in the winter using this method which is why I'm going this route versus normal wood construction. Did I mention I don't like wood?
How do I tie it into the house? I can get fairly close to the house with the piling but the hammer takes up some space, plus I have water, septic, and gas right there so I can't put them just anywhere. The house is going to have to bear some of the load. The neighbors had a similar size deck built and it looks like they just screwed a whatever x whatever to the house with a beam over 3 piling supporting the other end and joists on top of those.
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