Ah gotcha. Can you walk me through your thought process why you didn’t do poured footings? I’m about to start a deck and keep wavering between poured and doing what you did, sure would save a lot of time and I’m wondering if poured footings is a waste of time. Thanks again and your deck looks great
@@coreyk2998 Well price was the main thing. Could have been thousands more and also a lot more work for what pay off in my mind? Growing up I have always seen floating decks and yea sure you may need to shim it once and a while but even then thats if your a perfectionist. Every spring it will go back to where you started. also it was my first deck and I had zero experince so with the pavers I bought you could move them around if you messed up a measurement. If you are attaching the deck to your home you need to use post tech or poured footings. Again why would you want to penetrate your foundation is beyond me doing that so digging the sod and using the already settled ground made sense to me. Just used tailings and a tamper to get them as level as possible.
@@SqueakyClutch Ahh, thanks for the detailed response. Yeah I'm starting to lean towards a floating deck with pavers or Tuff Blocks. What region do you live in? I'm just worried I'm gonna drop 10k on new composite deck boards and this thing is gonna frost heave up and be all screwy in a few years. But maybe you are right, I'm overbuilding it, and it'll be just fine. Thx again
@@coreyk2998 anytime. Again I am no professional. Before this video I haven't made a bird box. But this made the most sense to me. There are a lot of videos out there about decks and they all work in there own way. I live in northern canda and pretty much the worst spot because our frost line for the last few years has been probably 3 feet (we have had warm winters). Worst case you have to shim the deck after 5 years but even then it will all settle back to where it was when you made it. I will probably make a video explaining the whole process here in the next week so look out for that!
