How to Install Deck Frame Beams and Posts | Trex Academy

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• JO

  @JonnyBGood420 · 5 months ago (edited)

  Devin ? WTH lol here I am just watching deck builds and my high school friend comes across my screen lol😂 it’s a crazy world.

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• FO

  @fordpalm · 2 years ago

  Really detailed instructions on the structural building of the deck

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• BA

  @bartbug1 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The only thing I'd add is to make sure your bolts are offset when securing the beam to the post (possible splitting of the timber grains) pre drilling helps, but better to be safe than sorry.

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  @spelunkerd · 2 years ago

  Living in the Pacific Northwest rainforest, I see those posts set in concrete below grade to be the weakest part of the whole design. I know you get away with it in dry climates,  but when it fails you end up having to replace everything. Better to use concrete posts that bring all wood at least 8" above ground. When the wood ultimately fails, the foundation survives to support the next deck years later, without painstaking effort to dig out the remains of the old supports.

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• JA

  @jacksonross7697 · 3 years ago

  I'm planning to build by own second level deck deck next spring, and as a moderately skilled DIYer I want to hold very closely to code and construction best practices.  When I first started looking into this a year ago there were a few decent instruction videos but none of them were exactly what I was looking for.  Now I come back a year later, and THIS is the series I was looking for.  Extremely detailed and helpful, thank you!

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  @robertcochran7103 · 2 years ago

  This is an excellent video, thank you so much for providing it. The techniques shown here are more advanced than those used in the 1970s. Building science and building codes have really advanced since that time. I really like applying copper coatings and tape to joists, for example. These are much more advanced techniques than were used in the 1970s and 1980s.

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• ST

  @st.michaelthearchangel7774 · 3 weeks ago

  Very helpful. Thank you.

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  @sorinankitt · 4 months ago

  Different way to do each main step. Opposite day indeed.

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• EX

  @ExperiencedNovice2024 · 1 year ago

  I wish I knew all these ‘working on your own’ tips when I was building my deck.

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• RY

  @ryanmarks6134 · 4 years ago

  Can’t find a deck builder with availability this spring.  Need more vids like this for the DIY’ers!

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• TU

  @tucsonwilliams1018 · 1 year ago

  Great video, great explaining for beginners, and super detail oriented. Thank you so much so the great video.

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  @Mulder-jg7ze · 3 years ago

  If you have any clay soil in your post holes water will not drain,  you’ve basically made a hole for water to hangout in.  Concrete pier would be far better or the old concrete fill method.

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