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"Robert Green" wrote:

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On 6/27/2011 2:58 PM, newbee wrote:
We are considering putting a deck on our 20 foot wide town home. The
back of the home has a 2 car garage and a driveway and the deck will
be directly above the driveway.

Are there any special considerations while putting a deck of this
nature? Do you recommend more than 2 wood beams to hold the deck?

Thanks

SR

If it is attached townhouses, you likely have an HOA and/or CCRs on the
deed and/or local code that dictate what you can build, especially if
the front yard isn't very deep. Check those out before you spend any
money.

Aside from the fact that I believe it's a backyard deck, it's good advice.
Add-on decks are frequent subjects of news articles like "Deck collapses
injuring 20" because they are often built ad-hoc by people who are not quite
up to the engineering part of the task.

--
Bobby G.

Of course, the stories on TV's "Engineering Disasters" were not about
backyard engineers. Plenty of stuff built by credentialed people falls
down.