HOW TO BUILD A DECK
HOW TO BUILD A DECK Building a deck from timber is one of the easier DIY projects that you can undertake that will have a lasting positive impact on both your lifestyle and your home’s value. This is the first of a three-part DIY series on how to build yourself a deck. Once you’ve decided to undertake the project, the most critical part is the planning and calculation of the timber you require for your joists and bearers in order to properly support your decking structure. The process involved in planning for your deck involves several steps, firstly, you need to calculate the floor load width of your bearers, then select your bearer size and post spacings based on this information, and lastly select the correct size of your joist based on their required span. The use of span tables and floor load width calculations will be explained in detail further in this article, and hopefully you will finish reading with a good idea of what’...