Plan Deck Foundation and Layout

little bit of grandness to the front I got to get a better like terminology list so I could use it in these videos but what I'm thinking is I'm going to take this little platform and extend it to about here and what I think will happen is we'll have a floating deck we're going to use TRX decking by the way so it's like weather resistant uh come out and then we're going to have like a wraparound step section all the way around so therefore when you're taking this walkway you'll have something to step on when you're coming from the front you'll have something to step on and on top of it I want to put two big posts right here that will kind of dress this area up that comes the hard part we got to pour our footings the reason why we got to pour footings is yes some people would take those concrete blocks and put them on the ground but the problem is is that it'll work for a season or two maybe even three but the ground does what the ground wants to do So eventually it'll start settling it'll start moving so what we have to do is we have to set our anchor post past the frost line on both areas put the concrete put the forms in uh well actually in reverse order put the forms in put the concrete to put the anchors in and then we can build our deck out first thing we need to do is figure out how far from the house we need it put our stakes in make sure the thing is square and then we can start [Music] digging and I bought a special tool that is perfect for this so it's a little level for your string so we could just get this nice and tight hanging on there and it'll tell us which way we need to go pretty dead [Music] [Applause] nuts in order to get the right Square for it you don't measure side to side you measure across so from corner to corner we're about 2002 uh I think I'm feeling good about