May/June 2007
by Andy Engel
Builders across the land reveal their tricks to supporting decks.
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Footings From New England To California Builders across the land reveal their tricks to supporting decks Andy Engel A decade or so ago when I still made my living as a carpenter, in part as a deck-building carpenter, I dreaded footings. The frost depth where I worked in northern New Jersey was 36 inches, and my home county was where the last glacier had stopped, depositing most of the rocks it had stripped from the land on its way down from Canada. I tried all sorts of tacks to avoid digging footing holes. I'd cut my price if the homeowner
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