Saturday, May 1st 2021: Restaurant deck collapses in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee. Forty people fall sending eleven to the hospital, two with critical injuries. A quick internet search will reveal far too many unfortunate and avoidable incidents like this happening on a regular basis. What factors are at play with deck failures and how can we ensure […]Read More about Deck Dangers
What is it about joist hangers that attracts the DIY enthusiast?
If they can be nailed wrong, they will be. It seems that more than half of the decks we inspect have a problem with the joist hangers. For some reason (and its probably price) people want to buy a smaller joist hanger than necessary saving a few dollars and putting the deck in jeopardy. Joist […]Read More about What is it about joist hangers that attracts the DIY enthusiast?
Most Decks are Dangerous.
A Realtor from a Xenia office said to me recently that there had only been one deck in the last two years that I had not thrown the book at. I got to thinking about that and realized he was probably correct. Unfortunately most of the decks we inspect, even professionally built ones are badly […]Read More about Most Decks are Dangerous.