Every day I pass by a new building site, where they have progressed to the point of starting with groundworks and building the deck.
I was a bit surprised when I saw the construction company's solution for the deck's structure, as I would never have built it that way, but maybe it's a completely OK established solution? What do you think?
One side is a beam attached to the house (nothing strange there), but on the outer edge, they have no supports and do not place the deck's support on paving stones either.
Instead, they have directly on the crushed stone (which is not entirely horizontal) placed a pressure-treated sill, and on this, attached posts (regular 45x95 pressure-treated wood) and on these, attached their beam.
In places where the deck extends from the house more than about 3 meters, they have used one more such solution between the outer edge and the house wall.
Thoughts?
I have tried to draw how it is done, imagine you are standing in front of the house and looking directly at the facade; the beam is therefore parallel to the facade (then maybe there will be joists on the beams too, but this is how far they have come now).
If the new build has an end owner (i.e., the house is not being built on speculation and sold only when it is finished), then the end owner should refer to the building description. There is guaranteed not to be this solution, but it probably says plinth, or possibly posts on hard ground (e.g., with cement slabs as the contact surface). I would never do so...
