Hoosker wrote:

We are doing a deck and we spec'ed the boards to run out from the
house, rather than perpendicular like a regular deck. This was setup
as they have a pool in the backyard and we wanted to deck to flow
towards the water area, and we would us less finish surface baords,
utiling single 16' runs.
The Homeowner is not sure he wants them this way, claiming all decks
he has seen usually run parellel to the house. This is the way I
usually see them done as well.
Is there any reason why we can't do it the way we are doing it? We
are already to the surface decking part of the deck and can't turn
back now, but we want to reassure the homeowner it is ok to do it
this way? The deck is very well supported, in fact, we used 10"
bords instead of the normal 8" boards for support.
Any thoughts are appreciated.

As long as you have adequate support, the direction the boards run is
just a question of taste. The last deck I built had the boards running
perpendicular to the house.

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Steve Bell
New Life Home Improvement
Arlington, TX