On Tue, 12 May 2015 17:42:04 -0400, hubops
wrote:



I think I mentioned earlier that my son has drafted me to help build a fairly large deck at his cabin.
The cabin is a manufactured home elevated about two feet over a concrete slab.
There is skirting running around the perimeter of the structure. The skirting is framed in 2x4s
with verticle studs 16 inches on center.
So ... here's the question: can we attach the ledger board to the skirting framework?
Or is a better approach a free-standing deck?
Thanks, Larry


I wouldn'r even think about it twice. Free standing, all the way.
Even the front porch on my house is built free-standing - no ledger
board attached to the house. Same for my 12X12 rear deck.


" Free-Standing " means ... on-ground deck blocks ?
.. or concrete piers going down 3 - 4 feet deep .. ?

Sonotubes 3-4 feet down with saddles for the front porch. The rear
deck just had 8 inch postholes dug, 4x4 cedat posts stuck in, framing
set into the posts and nailed, holes back-filled with fast setting
sacrete, tamped and watered. The holes are about 2 1/2 feet deep in
sandy gravel base - very well drained. The deck framing was done
before I bought the house 33 years ago, and when I rebuilt the deck
about 20 years ago I was able to pull the old cedar posts out of the
concrete and drive new ones back in on all but one of the 10 holes. I
had to remove the broken concrete from one hole and re-fill it. I used
pressure treated SYP instead of cedar when I rebuilt it.

Timely post - I'm needing to re-build my 12 x 20 deck -
after it failed last summer - the "anchors" started to fail -
where they were connected into the house . .
might have been just nails ? dunno yet
... what a pain-in-the-butt !
I've added a small dog-run around half the deck ..
I'm thinking of pressure-treated framework -
with, perhaps - synthetic decking ?
Any helpful advice / experience - is appreciated.
I'm in S. Ontario Canada near Clair :-)
John T.

I used Trex Transcend for the front porch when I rebuilt it about 6
years ago. Not cheap, but worth it.

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