Installing Post Bases on Concrete Footings

a day. Well, we screwed up on something. I took full responsibility. Let me show you. We got our footings, which we went way overboard with how many we got. We only needed actually three and we went with five just to just to make up for all the crazy snowfall here. They are the appropriate depth. They're appropriate width. However, our alignment is a little jacked up. Uh, this one's perfect. The rest of them are kind of sitting on the edge. Now, typically I'd be concerned for this, but because of the excess amount of footings that we have, it'll be just fine. Let's drill our anchor. Typically, I love to set my anchors right when the concrete footings are poured, just cuz it's so much easier to do. But, in this situation, 5/8 lag bolts, anchor bolts are going down. Fancy, beautiful black hardware. But what I like about this one, it actually has a cap. So your posts are not actually sitting on the the nut that's sitting on top of this thing. It's sitting on a nice flat surface, which I think gives it added stability. [Music] Have our temporary ledger that's leveled right now. So we're working with our finished height for the floor joist. We have the distance from the base to the top 28 and 1/4, but we're going to have a 9 1/2 in beam uh and another 9 and 1/2 uh rafters that are pressuret treated. So to make our life easier, it's 19 put together. So we take this overall height, subtract 19, we come out with nine and a quarter, I believe. Throw this sucker in here, throw some legs all the way across, bring our beam on, and then we should be able to keep moving forward. [Music] We got our first post on and we have our last post on. And to make our life easier, we got a nice top line going across so we know exactly that elevation of post that we need to create. All the simple things to help make your life a little bit easier. You know you're growing up when you're excited about building a deck. Increasing the equity in your home. That's sexy.