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Site Preparation and Footings

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What happens here

After demolition, prepare the site for the new deck. Begin by clearing any remaining debris, leveling the ground as needed, and using string lines and stakes to accurately mark the new deck's footprint and the locations for the footings. Dig holes for the concrete footings using a post-hole digger or a shovel, ensuring they extend below the frost line in your region. Insert cardboard concrete forms (Sonotubes) into the holes to establish clean cylindrical concrete piers. Pour ready-mix concrete into the forms, ensuring they are filled to grade. While the concrete is wet, insert adjustable post bases or rebar into the center of each footing to provide an attachment point for the deck posts.

Goal: Establish a stable and level foundation for the new deck.

Tools and materials

  • Concrete Mixer — Mixing concrete if not using pre-mixed bags
  • Level — Ensuring footings are level and post anchors are plumb
  • Measuring Tape — Accurate measurements for layout and footing placement
  • Post-Hole Digger — Efficiently digging deep, narrow holes for deck footings
  • Shovel — Excavating footing holes and general site clearing
  • String Line and Stakes — Marking out the exact dimensions and squareness of the new deck
  • Wheelbarrow — Transporting concrete mix
  • Concrete Mix Quikrete — Creating the deck footings
  • Rebar — Reinforcing concrete footings
  • Sonotubes — Creating cylindrical concrete piers

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What's going on everybody? We're here at a new project and we already got all the demo done. We're starting to build the new deck. We tore down what was here. It was old, dilapidated. Now, we're building something fresh, a lot more functional. We're extending [music] it a couple feet so we get two zones out of this. We're going to have couch sitting area. We're also going to have that bar area. So, a little bit more functionality. It's going to look a whole lot better and we're going to improve the flow [music]

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