Hm, why would we frame like this? 🤔

[screaming] [groaning] >> Why we doing it like this? Doesn't make any sense, right? Well, this is a free standing deck. You can see we have the beam 2 ft away from the house because we're up against the foundation. We do it like this so we can get some nails into the backside of these joists. The rest of them will be toe nailed, but that way we can get some nails in there, get it squared, put it into place, good to go. You can do it like this or you can do it the wrong way.