How to Build a Deck: Setting the Rim Joists #4

That nail “driver” absolutely adorable sir

Building an elevated deck is a lot of work. Glad to see you have several people to help you.

It would be great if Youtube would make a mute setting to silence the music...otherwise, great video!

Looks nailed to the house too. Looks like quit the step out also. I'm glad they are using nails.

What Galaxy said- no music needed. It detracts from an other wise very helpful video.

I've never seen such a rough job like that in all my life , And you call yourself a tradesmen.

Hope you went back and used more than 3 inch deck screws to hold that beam assembly together! You need structural screws .

cool glasses

You don't need backing music in a vid like this, Very annoying for such a good presentation.

This set of videos is more of an advertisement than an instructional video. There was little or no instruction in any of the videos about building a deck. I am an engineer as well as a contractor and have been for over 40 years. I can tell a lot about the professionalism of a crew just by looking at the tools they use and how they use them. These guys are fly by night at best. The equipment they use is junk. Leveling a ledger with a 4 foot level is poor practice. A number of the guys had no safety gear at all. Safety gear only works if you use it all the time.

your nexr vid should be about making a pair of shoes

Sorry but this is not the way to do it. Yes the rim joists will be vey strong but doing it this way means they have to attach the rest of the floor joists with hangers on both sides. Best way is to use a girder which is a beam that all the joists will rest ontop of and then the only joist hangers will be to the house with 4in joists hangers and tie down the floor joists to girder with hurricaine ties. The ledger board attahes to the house with perferrably 1/2 in carriage bolts that toggle into the house or 1/2in lag bolts

1 minute in and that's fucked! You should have left the post a joist width longer and cut the joist thickness out of the post and rested the joist on the notched out post and then bolted it tight to the post so the load is still transfered directly to the post bit with a far stronger connection. Back to the video.

He can’t swing a hammer but he can throw a skill saw, ehhh not mine of course.

Get framing hammers lol

Nope. This will not end well.

No hardware at posts obviously you think you know how to do the job but don’t understand building codes enough to do it right?

Zero strong ties tisk tisk tisk.

Are you a carpenter or a punk music enthusiast! Music is too loud!

Pretty lazy carpentry, post should be notched to accept rim joist!