If your deck can be free standing not attached to the ledger of your house and 80 or more of all residential decks can be you are going to love this product.
No concrete deck footing.
Reasons for deck footings.
By doing this you re going to want to install sleepers which are pieces of pressure treated lumber into the concrete so the deck has something to attach to.
Redi footing s strong and safe construction makes building your deck shed or outdoor structure fast and easy.
How to get a solid frost proof footing.
However most concrete deck blocks can only hold 4x4 posts not 6x6s and they have no lateral strength at the base of the post.
Putting a wooden deck surface over a concrete slab will allow the deck to stay stable without the usage of footings.
This is how you build a structurally sound deck without concrete.
The idea is simple.
The helical screw pile replaces the concrete footing embedded post bracket used in conventional deck construction.
Up from the bottom of the footing.
Building a deck over a concrete footing is done for a variety of reasons.
Also if you drop set the framing into the groove the underside of the joist is still 5 6 above grade.
No hauling cement bags no mixing no messy pouring no waiting for cement footings to dry.
It s hard to imagine an easier deck footing option than deck footing pads.
They include drainage of water under the deck keeping the timber away from the ground stabilize the construction and also to keep air flowing under the deck.
The screw pile can be reused.
The 50 helical screw pile from pylex.
No sledge or jack hammers.
Then dump concrete through the tube into the bottom of the hole.
When you pour concrete footings hold the cardboard concrete form tube about 12 in.
Check out our deck footing frost map to help you understand how deep your footings will need to be excavated.
No more back breaking concrete or cement mixing.
However there are now a couple of foundation systems that spare deck builders from the task of digging.
We will teach you how to determine the code compliant size of your footings based on the soil type and tributary loads.
Until recently there was no good way to build a deck without digging holes to anchor it unless you happened to be building onto an existing concrete slab.
Footings for a deck or shed to save you more time and more money.
It can be readjusted after installation by multiple inches.
It can be relocated.
Instead of digging footing holes than hauling mixing and pouring hundreds of pounds of concrete you simply use a pad.