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Ok, here's my question...
I have built numerous decks but always have dug footings 48" deep. Is it possible to build a deck around a above ground pool and only setting the 4x4's on the concrete blocks (pier blocks)? It will not be attached to the house, the pool will be changed in the next few years and thus the reason the customer does not want footings.
The deck height will be 48" and 22 feet long x 8 feet at it's narrowest and 16 at it's longest which is both ends of the oval pool. The pool was dug into a hill and they used rail road ties for the wall at 4 feet high and 30 feet long. Dumb thing is they stacked the rail road ties without interlacing them as they went up, hard to explain but it means actually there are 4 individual walls with a railroad tie burried 3' deep and vertical on each walls, they will not act as 1 structure because they are not tied together in anyway.
So I am also nervous that the wall will move outward into the deck and if there are footings, it will cause some serious problems, which a floating deck might also have problems with.
Of course this deck is for a friend (won't make what I should) and I am not sure I can convince him that footings are needed as he feels it is temporary.
So basically, can a deck be built away from the house about 20 feet and not need footings? I know it will shift up and down a bit but the HO watching the DIY network all the time doesn't help because they build decks like that all the time.
Be kind...I think it needs footings but can it be done correctly without?
I have built numerous decks but always have dug footings 48" deep. Is it possible to build a deck around a above ground pool and only setting the 4x4's on the concrete blocks (pier blocks)? It will not be attached to the house, the pool will be changed in the next few years and thus the reason the customer does not want footings.
The deck height will be 48" and 22 feet long x 8 feet at it's narrowest and 16 at it's longest which is both ends of the oval pool. The pool was dug into a hill and they used rail road ties for the wall at 4 feet high and 30 feet long. Dumb thing is they stacked the rail road ties without interlacing them as they went up, hard to explain but it means actually there are 4 individual walls with a railroad tie burried 3' deep and vertical on each walls, they will not act as 1 structure because they are not tied together in anyway.
So I am also nervous that the wall will move outward into the deck and if there are footings, it will cause some serious problems, which a floating deck might also have problems with.
Of course this deck is for a friend (won't make what I should) and I am not sure I can convince him that footings are needed as he feels it is temporary.
So basically, can a deck be built away from the house about 20 feet and not need footings? I know it will shift up and down a bit but the HO watching the DIY network all the time doesn't help because they build decks like that all the time.
Be kind...I think it needs footings but can it be done correctly without?