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Jim Martin (Tulsa, OK)

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General Contractor

Posted Date

3/5/2018 12:00:00 AM

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Support Question?

I got a deck to build that will be 7' off the ground. Under the deck is an old flip up garage door with a 12' wide concrete pad in front of it that will have to still be accessible. The deck will hold a 4 person hot tub pretty much right above the garage door. I was going to use 2 x 10 joists @ 12 with two tripled 2 x 12 beams @ 5' & 10' perpendicular under the joist. (the deck comes 12' out) Well now the HO wants all the headroom he can get so he is not in favor of the tripled 2 x 12s. He suggested using 6 x 6 posts as beams @ 2' under the joists with 6 x 6 posts to support them. The post beams will have to span 13'. I don't know if I feel comfortable with his idea but he will gain about 6 headroom doing it this way. Just wanted ya'lls opinions on support with the the most headroom?
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