By Matt Weber Build a Freestanding Cantilevered Deck Supported by Parallel Beams. Around Alabama, where EHT is headquartered, most decks are connected to the side of a house with a ledger board ...

Repairing and stopping this type of water damage to deck joists that were not protected with joist tape really isn’t possible after the fact unless you were to remove the deck boards and start ...

If my deck beam is a double 2-by-10 or a double 2-by-12, I prefer to make a notch in a 6-by-6 post. This notched cut allows the beam to sit on a shelf I’ve cut into the wood post.