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Default Thoughts on Home Depot installed Deck with "patented" buildingtechniques....

G. Filicetti wrote:

...They talk about how their decks aren't built in the traditional
fashion, how they are all free standing decks with no load placed on
the ledger board, how their posts are 3 2x6s fastened together in the
factory, not 4x4s, how it they are designed like a bridge where all
loads are distributed through the structure instead of the typical
shearing load placed on the ledger board on my traditional decks, yada
yada yada.


What's the penalty for copying one of their decks?

Rob