hey everybody sam here and angela and welcome to our channel welcome back to part two of our
building of our back deck behind our 1988 palm harbor single wide mobile home there you go
if you've not seen it or you've missed it or you're jumping in at this point there's a link to
the full playlist below which will cover all the videos from start to finish in part one we dug and
set and poured our footers today in part two we're going to go ahead and continue and set our posts
do some final grading and whatever else we can get into before we get rained on yes so let's go
as a reminder this is a freestanding cantilever style back deck we are building that is going
to be final dimensions of 12 feet wide and 10 feet deep we're going to be constructing
it out of treated lumber straight out of the hardware store and off the shelf materials
that you if you're building one should be able to find easily wherever you are
we've worked a little bit this morning tearing off the cardboard around our concrete forms and angela
is doing some final grading what we're going to do next is actually bolt up our post bases
which attach and connect the wood posts to these concrete footers here's a look at our
post bases we're going to be installing these are simpson strong tie brand model aba 44z
they are designed for four by four posts they have the hole right here in the middle this is what
bolts and connects to those j bolts we put in our footers we tighten it down with a washer and nut
and then the post sits on top of this there is an oblong cutout here in the bracket that allows you
a little bit of wiggle room to get your beams and everything in line as you need which is helpful
because we're not pros out here doing a deck and we need as much wiggle room as we can get
this kind of bracket is also known as a standoff bracket because it raises your post about 5 8 to 3
4 of an inch up off the concrete this prolongs the life of your wood posts prevents it from rotting
and is really probably the best thing to use in this case so let's take our brackets hardware
and i'll see you guys over on the ground and we'll bolt one of these up or down put one of these down
oh
now i can't plan on
we're just gonna have pebbles that's fine
so long as it slopes away
here trading just put them in there loosely we'll i'll tighten those up with the beam
whenever i bring it over and i'll do this reckon did you already do that one yeah they're snug okay
if i pull this out here i'll be able to finesse the tractor or do this kind of stuff later
get those toes
all right let's get the string lines out of the way
it looks really good
up here we might have to twist them or move them but they're really good in line
thank you they did really good with this one maybe a little bit but
nice
okay i'm going to put them where i want them and we'll carefully lift
it off and then we'll crank them down will you grab a pencil and score the
bracket on the concrete give me some reference marks in case you
we're going straight back to the brackets
okay another thing that is very very surprising because we didn't do that that was pretty much
level left to right there was not a huge gap across the beam i mean see how the middle that's
taller this one was very close and we didn't do it because it doesn't matter but whatever i'm just
geeking out over hardware and stuff whatever this makes use to take a break that's what it really is
did you see that bush hog i sent you this morning yeah i saved it well no no i didn't save it
because that's a six foot i the tractor won't do anything more than a five at most oh really yep
is it because of the size of the tractor yeah because of horsepower oh okay i didn't know i
was like sweet look this one's there so what we're doing here is lining up and getting parallel all
of our post brackets we're using one of our floor joists or one of our beam boards i forget they're
all two by tens we're using as a straight edge setting it on the brackets and then lining them up
and marking them and then bolting them down there this is a easy way for us to do this
to use a straight edge what we have to get them where they need to be so that's what we're doing
well we have reached the point in this project where we can get rid of this tripping hazard
all of the lines and boards holding them up and everything we can get rid of them because we're
done with them all right here's what we're going to do next we're going to cut our posts
over length so i have eight foot long four by four posts three foot section up here five foot
section back there then we're also going to cut some two by threes for our braces since our posts
are not set in concrete they're not locked into the ground these little brackets you can't leave
them like that so we're going to brace them use our concrete pins anchor it to the ground and
basically build ourselves six posts of over length to then get our final length cut to all that and
you guys will see that then get ahead of myself let's cut some lumber and stick it vertical first
so
we're at the point of attaching our posts to the brackets and a while back i mean at this
point it's probably a couple weeks old i posted a quick little clip of our front deck framing
on our instagram and facebook wow it blew up because a lot of people don't realize there are
code approved compliant screws you can use with simpson brackets joist hangers and all the such
so i want to show you guys these guys sd strong drive connecting screws these are code approved
irc rated you can use these for brackets like you're going to see me use
you can still use the nails if you want to they're still out there but these are correct they're
approved so just know that this option does exist this is a lot less wear and tear option on your
joints your shoulders your body and possibly your thumbs this is also a much more controlled
easy to replace and fix type thing if you mess up so it's why we use these i really like them
and i just want to take a second to show you this is what we're using these do exist it is correct
so that i don't know maybe you can drop some truth bombs on somebody else
blow their minds and then tell them hey i know stuff i watch sam and angela do stuff
you know it took me like three minutes to figure out what you meant by saving thumbs
i guess you've not hit your thumb enough with a hammer mine always didn't always used to be two
inches wide and half an inch thick takes practice and many years of i guess left hand hammering
so
this clip is out of order you're going to see us in the video here you're still going to see these
posts up but i want to show you guys what i'm doing here i've got a 360 degree laser level out
here and set up and i'm using it because it's kind of late in the day and i can see the laser really
good to give myself my level point to cut all of these posts off so they're going to be level and
correct that way i don't have to worry with a string line level or a long level and i don't
mess things up i've marked on the house where i want the top of the post to be took our final deck
height we want subtract the decking subtract the joist subtract the beams same thing we do with our
front porch so it is set up it is casting it it is late in the evening which is perfect because it's
kind of low light and i can see the laser line on all the posts i'm gonna run around really quickly
get that mark put a little marks on all the posts and then i'll show you guys the setup as long as
i don't get rained out so let me do that real quick and i'll show you whenever i get that done
so
i'm just doing one last look that i've got marks on every single post at least one mark if not
multiples i don't want to do this again i don't want to miss any this is going to be correct on
all of these as long as i make sure i've got them all marked this one time all right there'll be
a link to a different laser level down below not this one because i don't recommend this particular
model not because i question its accuracy it's fine it's just for the price and the quality it's
not really there otherwise there our posts are marked we're able to start the work tomorrow again
hacking them off building the beams and that'll be the next video in the series appreciate you
guys watching if you got any questions let us know otherwise we'll jump back to the past now
for our normal outro with angela and hopefully make sense i don't know it's kind of reality guys
in the video earlier today get a chance to do this work now saves overall work so see you
all right we're about to get dumped on by the sky so we wanted to at least take time to say goodbye
this is a good progress for today it is we got all of our finished grading done under the deck
make sure we had good slope away from the house we got our posts set and plumbed and that's about it
and we'll be ready to go whenever the rain stops yes definitely if you guys got any questions
or comments you know what to do again if you're here from the future look below to the playlist
link down below for the full series of building our 12 by 10 back deck on our 1988 palm harbor
single wide mobile home we'll see you guys later bye that's a little bit different that works
all right you got questions oh yeah no it's about to i didn't know this is good dump mcdoubley
dump on us here it comes just got the tools just got the tools cleaned up perfect timing
oh that was it
we're going to be constructing it out of treated lumber straight out of the hardware store hard
hardwood hardware well we have reached the point in this project you said that makes sense okay
why is the camera focusing on the window of the door there we go i'm here
what is this simpson strongtown aba 44z this is a look at the post base nope nope it's focusing
wow is there a face in the door because it thinks that is a face it chooses the door over my face
tell me you got an ugly mug without telling me you've got an ugly mug
when your face detection camera chooses that over this
all right about dropped it that's alright i'm not into looking pretty business
i dropped it again let's just not do that you can kind of get closer
yeah you got boob sweat let's call them sweaty and i got boobs yeah wow it's like shadows
and then they're going to be cut long we will have the ability to speak oh i could tell you
exactly no problem one take but i talked to this thing and i flood club well i think it's because
no judgment and probably so much judgment out there we don't want to really want to know