The Regenerative Home's video: How to build a Deck Modern Design Redwood with Hot Tub

_Deck _Design _Hot_Tub This deck includes a jacuzzi. It is built 50 lbs per square inch and 100 lbs per square ft. where the jacuzzi will be. An on-grade deck—one built just above the ground—doesn't require posts, steps, or railings. But it has the same structural elements as any deck—ledger, joists, beams and piers. Building one begins with determining the sizes of the framing material. Tom Silva uses these rules of thumb: for rim joists or beams made of doubled-up 2x lumber, the boards' nominal width (in inches) should match the span (in feet). So a rim joist spanning 10 feet requires two 2x10s. The ledger is made from a single board of the same width. For interior joists, Tom halves the span then adds two—a joist spanning 8 feet warrants a 2x6. (In all cases, round up odd numbers or fractions to the next even number.) Place a post base a top a pier, positioning it so it will not interfere with joist hangers, and mark its location. Remove post base and bore into pier with a hammer drill equipped with a masonry bit. Re-position post base, insert an anchor bolt, and tighten with an impact wrench. Repeat for each pier. Cut pressure-treated 2x stock for the doubled side rim joists and beams. Glue them up with construction adhesive and nail them together from both sides with 12d nails, spaced every 16 inches in a zigzag pattern. Fit a side rim joist into a joist hanger at one end of the ledger, square the corner, and toenail through the hanger into the ledger with 16d nails. Rest the joist's opposite end on a corner pier. Repeat with the other side joist, removing mason's strings as necessary. Cut pressure-treated 2x stock for the deck's front rim joist. Stagger any butt joints by varying board lengths, making sure joints fall in the middle of post anchors. Fasten concealed-flange double joist hangers on the ends of the front rim joist's inner 2xs. Then fit the inner 2xs into the post bases. Fit a side rim joist into a front hanger, and square the corner. Secure the front rim joist 2x to the post bases with hanger nails. Then drive six 16d nails through the face of the front rim joist into the end of the side rim joist. Repeat with the other side rim joist. Fasten face-mounted double joist hangers for beams every 8 feet on center along the front rim joist and ledger, flush with their bottom edges. Fit and nail each beam as described above. Complete the doubled front rim joist by gluing and nailing the outer 2xs to the inner 2xs. Install 2x joist hangers along the beams, 16 inches on center. (Joists, once inserted, should be flush with the top edge of the ledger, rim joists, and beams.) Fasten concealed-flange double joist hangers on the ends of the front rim joist's inner 2xs. Then fit the inner 2xs into the post bases. Fit a side rim joist into a front hanger, and square the corner. Secure the front rim joist 2x to the post bases with hanger nails. Then drive six 16d nails through the face of the front rim joist into the end of the side rim joist. Repeat with the other side rim joist. Fasten face-mounted double joist hangers for beams every 8 feet on center along the front rim joist and ledger, flush with their bottom edges. Fit and nail each beam as described above. Complete the doubled front rim joist by gluing and nailing the outer 2xs to the inner 2xs. Install 2x joist hangers along the beams, 16 inches on center. (Joists, once inserted, should be flush with the top edge of the ledger, rim joists, and beams.) Visit for more info: http://www.lushplanet.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Related Videos: https://youtu.be/I-sYjDDuqbA https://youtu.be/r529Yj5BLJk