Another POORLY BUILT Deck
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- I talk about issues on yet another poorly built deck #decks #deckbuilding #inspection
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Man. When I was growing up, I was watching a wooden fence support beam near my house age and rot throughout the years before collapsing to the winds. I can't imagine ONE wooden beam supporting an entire structure like that! Seeing a deck, walls, stairs, a roof and what looks like furniture inside being supported by ONE skinny beam SCREAMS death trap!
That is a post, beams run horizontal
@@brianmcdowell7377 okay
Can't say I'd want to be standing under there. I wonder if people realize just how much weight that is. That's asking a lot of that post... Ultra dangerous.
Should by a 5x5 steel tube with flange plates bolted to concrete foundation
@KingfishStevens-di9ji if I went with one post on a deck like that, I'd want a steel post and beam on the outer edge. I wonder if they put the walls and roof on later?
This is crazy. How could any "professional" build this? I built a 14x22 deck (fully permitted and inspected) and I used TWELVE 6x6 posts on 12" diameter concrete piers sunk down 4'. And this deck is 2-5' off the ground depending on grade. Then again I'm a mech engineer and I may have an "over-engineering" problem lol.
Your house will collapse before your deck will!
Wow! The whole thing just looks sketchy from far away. Like a little matchstick holding it up.
Just one post 6x4 even if it was a 6x6 i wouldn't be happy walking away from it thinking it would sramd the test of time. The only option in my eyes for a one post is a steel post
Steel support column
The deck isn’t built to support itself ,let alone the roof and stair system above. My thoughts exactly.
The big question is now, how it went through inspection after being build. In my area whenever you try to build something a city inspector comes.
in my city the inspectors are builders that went bankrupt for issues with their projects---they often don't know what's a problem and they are not responsible for any future failures
Money. Do you really need to ask? It's always money. Even if indirectly.
@@andyking9673my city, city inspector must hold state buildings license for 5 years minimum and u have to work for the city only
At Habitat we would have two posts at the top of the stairs. The old pro's like to use 6 x 6 and notch them so the ledger boards rest on them.
Knowing this was a deck that was actually inspected... imagining all of the decks that go up that aren't inspected is quite scary.
Gov/city inspections are more so for control then giving a dam about your safety.
I was at a party at a girls third floor apartment, we had to go out on the balcony to smoke, there were about eight of us, all of a sudden there was a loud snap sound it dropped like two inches. We all got off it quick
Is the homeowner on the hook for this work or can you sue the contractors for building a clearly inadequate and unsafe deck?
Took a lot of guts to walk under that. That lone bent 4X4 looked like it could snap inwards any second.
im not even close to consider myself a commercial/professional builder, yet all the projects i work on are 1000% more secure. i have never built a deck yet i know enough that beams need support and should be attached to each other!
Yes I agree that support beam is totally inadequate for that load.
You can almost guarantee some type of deck structural issues on a house with dutch lap siding.
It’ll be fine! Calm down!
What's the correlation between "not a fan of something" and it being "not to code"?
I noticed that too, lots of personal preference, not much about the law
How did that ever pass inspection?
That is very repairable structure. The joists don't get wet with the porch above so no rot. Just need to replace one post and add a couple more.
It needs a steel support column from the ground concrete to the roof.about 5 of them.
But yet someone installed new decking?? A homeowner just fired me after tear off because I wouldn't install trex decking because deck framing was 30 years old and had significant bowing and roofing nails in Hanger's and several other issues. I never had that happen before and I've been building decks for 35 years! I'm good with that!👍🏻
Getting fired is better than sitting in court facing a plaintiff in a wheelchair.
@KingfishStevens-di9ji exactly 👍🏻
what is the end result of these inspections? does the builder have to tear it down and re-do it?
Wow, what a piece of trash. What did they do to fix it?
Good Job !~!~ Your a Good Inspector !~!~
I think the coolest thing is that it's still doing fine even with all the load on it. I've demo'd plenty of manufactured homes that looked like they had been assembled by tweakers who only had access to popsicle sticks, and those homes were still going strong, even after 40+ years in areas with a high snow load. Personally, I think building codes are written by insurance companies and manufacturers in order to drive up insurance liability costs for contractors and squeeze more money out of homeowners. Just my two cents anyways...
You are a brave man for standing under that.
Big question:
How do you get into inspecting?
@@tailgatecarpenter26
Wow
I hear ya
Nice undercover work, lol!
Built by the lowest bidder. This is always the case. If you can't afford a safe deck this year, wait until next year. I see this time and time again. Now the owners are really going to have to dish out probably twice the money to make this legal. The is an old saying that still stands true today. " It's expensive to save money"
The fix doesn't look complicated at all. Carriage bolts and four 6x6 will fix that right up. If it were me I would also replace the edge board with two 2x8's. 2x6 works but not enough margin for me.
So this guy has a roughly 12x16 deck in the air supported by 1 leg on 1 board..I would be scared to let my cat walk on that
The axial load for a 4x6 is going to average around 10,000 lbs
Load calc. indicate additional column(s) required!…beyond that a host of other issues…
That thing needs at least three new uprights to take that load. Replace the rotten one, and put two new ones under their stairs?
Better hope that roof doesn’t see any snow before it’s fixed. Don’t matter you are on earth hail it’s always a thing.
Does anybody know if this deck is still standing
I bet you this will still be standing in 20 years
How can you comment on the adequacy of the construction when when you don’t know it violates the code
There are times when money needs to be put into the things that hold other things up. A high deck like this and supporting a roof- - - we start with brick and block pillars. All that weight on sticks.🦇
Nice
Come to Mississippi and you'll see even better-
Lol... "cut a shim."
Whats the problem?
Turns out there's a reason why structural engineers exist, eh? ;)
A structural engineer isn't needed for that. Just a bit of experience and common sense
Dont have party on the deck
Its called a rim joist and I would argue with you on the MAJOR structural comment
I don't care if the second header had positive support or not, its still undersized.
deck inspector here..
I wouldn't stand under that let alone on it
Cmon people. Manifold beams
one 4x6 is russian roulette. Tripple 2x8??? 8x8??? maybe. How do people, buyers, owners, sellers, miss that???
It’s one thing to Bootleg in a deck, and another to do a poor Job. What a shame.
To je zase nějaký tajný spiknutí?!
I built sturdier and more well designed tree forts when I was a kid....seriously who are the hacks that put something like this up and think it's fine?
No you didnt, stop lying
@@brianmcdowell7377 Ever see that show "Treehouse Masters"...me and my buddies were the 1980's version of that...just on a slightly smaller scale/budget. At least that's how I remember it.....
@@tyslink no you didnt
@@brianmcdowell7377 Well I could have...if it weren't for those rabid squirrels that lived in the trees and wouldn't let us near them...I still have nightmares about being chased by little furry rodents foaming from the mouth...those were dark days....
@@tyslink i believw you now because I have the same dream. Sometimes a family of kestrels swoop in and protect me
Lol there is not a thing wrong with that deck these engineer types need to make a job for themselves and make
Themselves feel needed and appreciated, this video
Documents that entirely
Oh lord
From the Fortnite school of carpentry.
Fix though. Add a beam under the rim joist. Pocket it at the house,support it with a new 6x6 and attach the stairs to it. YOU probably want to tear the entire deck down and cost the homeowners 25g
A 4x6 can hold something like 30,000lbs on a vertical like that. Its now bowing because of the load, its bowed because it was wet wood when the deck was build. The reason to use a 6x6 is not because of load capacity as this video implies, it is because of cross forces due to wind etc. Honestly, your lack of understanding in this one area hurts the creditability of everything else you have said.
Your comments seem subjective. "you would..." You prefer...." Should you mention codes and loads min to justify comments? Here in Chicago decks are required to be 100 lbs/sqft with massive metal braces, bolts, connectors and more requirements than rural areas would ever encounter.
Boo hoo! 😨😨😨
If it's that bad of a job why is it still standing ?
cuz it hasnt given way yet. thats the point--it aint built to last long
Things stand, until they don't. Just like you can bend a paper clip several times, before it breaks.
Now, try bending rebar back and forth until it breaks... You can build a deck like a paper clip, or you can build it like rebar. Your choice.
I would have 3 more supports. One at the opposite end. And one on either side of the steps. With the supports at the steps you could wall it up with a door and have some storage too.
One wooden post is prone to rotting and collapsing. God forbid Termites find that ONE post.
And don't get me started on what would happen if you had a party on that deck.