[jimhelm]

Building it virtually first illuminated several design flaws. I would have put the footers in the wrong spots, for one, and the railings would have looked shoddy....and just the way the outer box of the frame fits together changed the overall length by 3 inches... Again changing the location of the footers. Sketch up allows you to look at it from all angles and it predicts line location, centers you, tell you where the x y and z axes are... Fucking sweetest free program evar..... Like as far as meat space application goes. I would love to design decks for a living.


I should have been an architect. /costanza.

I'm going to have to just put a big wide set of steps on the face, and break it around the corner to meet a little one. He has a covered porch right next to the deck that might have been an issue with those landings anyway. I can't seem to upload pics off this iPad so I will post before shots later. Thankfully, I took a few shots with the regular camera too.