Build a Deck Like a Pro: Expert Techniques and Tricks

[@garycronk4967]

You seem to make a great teacher and mentor. I'm sure I would have gotten into the trades a lot sooner if I came across someone with your demeanor. Thank you for sharing:)

[@AwesomeFramers]

🙏🙏

[@Quietvibes07]

The black chalk part is great 😂. If we can’t have a little fun at work then we are doing it all wrong.

[@kgill5]

Thank you for taking time to teach future tradesmen the pride and joy of learning a new skill and doing it well!

[@ldtenenoff]

Been aminute since ive visted ur channel way cool fer u to have a convo with yourself,Great vid asa always Champ

[@ernestrichardson8683]

Love watching you guys work, learn a lot to even though I know I will never have a home for myself. Hope you all have a blessed New Year

[@drewski5730]

That’s a big deck you’ve got there!

[@kevenweaver9266]

I applaud the silica safety measures but here's some information for you tested by my company. Drilling into a floor slab with a 1/2" bit,indoors in a 10x10x8 room takes 141continuous 3" deep holes to reach elevated levels of airborne silica. Drilling 1 single hole overhead with a 1/4" bit 2" deep reaches the same danger levels.

[@Jesson98]

not to bad the “Québec and croissant”! - from a French Canadian

[@Integritybuilders-887]

What do you think about Martinez hammers?

[@AwesomeFramers]

Absolutely love it. www.jlconline.com/tools/hand-tools/field-tested-the-martinez-m1-titanium-handled-hammers_o

[@Integritybuilders-887]

@@AwesomeFramers yes they look really great- l have always swung a stiletto but would love to give a Martinez a go whenever my current daily gives out- too bad they last so long lol🤣

[@jeffsullivan5981]

Tim, let me become an Awesome Framer too! I can also SketchUp drawings for you but more importantly, I would love to work side by side with you! I’m licensed in California but would love to be a part of your crew! Plus, I always laugh at your jokes. Is there something brown on my nose? lol

[@hugoakerlund5114]

How are you liking that tool belt?

[@DakkaDakkaDakkaWaagh]

All of our NZ timber is pressure treated woop. Even interior timber is treated with boron. You can use doug fir but only in specific applications. its funny to hear people complain about it and we have to deal with that not even just on landscaping timber but everything

[@davidhume2842]

Hey, random question: is getting the white pencil mark off the stained lumber an issue?

[@zephyr1408]

Tim ? Your bags ? Akribis? I hv a set of trim bags I had them make for me and really really enjoy them ! Full of glue I wipe on them , marked and scratched up ? But nothing like a set of leather bags! Yep tried the light cloth I get it ? But leather is so nice ! Hey look good on you man!

[@AwesomeFramers]

I was testing these for Luke. I started as a leather guy, but really prefer nylon

[@zephyr1408]

@ we’ll still enjoy your videos ; little heartbroken over you not keeping them ? No I am not crying ? Allergies !

[@bwillan]

'The string doesn't lie, but sometimes we're idiots and it does." Spoke by someone with years of experience. LOL 🤣

[@Monath3]

How are you liking those akribis tool bags?

[@AwesomeFramers]

Very well designed, but I'm just not a leather guy

[@Brennan-qm9uj]

Any chance of a proper review? ​@AwesomeFramers

[@ryansoo4000]

When building a deck next to a house (especially one that's low to the ground) wouldn't it be better to not attach it to the house and just have it be free-standing (just add in another beam and a couple more posts next to the foundation)? That way the home's exterior insulation and siding can run right down to the foundation and you wouldn't have any tricky connections to flash at the deck ledger.

[@519VXComanche]

Shawshank! All too easy (

[@jeffkenyon7084]

Next time

[@519VXComanche]

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[@cxsey8587]

Shouldn’t you space that ledger off the wall? There’s a product called deck2wall that’s for that specifically

[@dariobartolomeo5094]

Question on your pressure treated lumber you guys use over there, Do you notice if it lasts longer than the normal around the rest of the U.S.? (Asking as someone who is a super for a GC who hates the pressure treated lumber nowadays)

[@AwesomeFramers]

I really don't know.

[@kevinparmelee5609]

The Shawshank redemption-Red

[@dansarfert3585]

Serious question: Why cut down the blocking and not just tap it below flush of the top and let the bottom hang down the difference?

[@AwesomeFramers]

You mean put them on the outside of the girder and tap them lower than the joists? I don't know if that is code allowed, I thought they had to go on the beam.

[@jeremywoods3393]

Train your guys! Yes. My best employers were the ones who cared to show me how to suffer the least haha.

[@URKlewless]

Don’t forget to explain to Jordan how you misplaced those concrete bases 🤣🤣🤣. I mean they are close so that’s the silver lining

[@AwesomeFramers]

Our scope of work started after the foundation and site work. We didn't place those piers nor the foundation........which is why they are as close as they are 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@steveharkins279]

If we are going to teach, then we need to teach any hole in concrete is a “German STS” patent license. Trying to figure that school of thought to teach myself.

[@Quietvibes07]

I’m pretty sure the STATUE of limitations hasn’t expired on saying HAPPY NEW YEAR! Anyway.. happy new year awesomeframers 😂

[@AwesomeFramers]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@derekderek1038]

I also went to Disney land in 86 and hated it too!

[@scotthouston7873]

Teach that youngster proper lifting techniques so he can stay feeling young 😂 great video as mostly

[@mikeinmaryland]

Two things. One for Jordan. Don’t let your toes toe inward: if (and when) you need to react to something you’ll want your feet splayed outward. Ps. Welcome to the trades. You made the right choice. BUT THIS ONE REALLY GETS MY GOAT. ACME TOOLS ARE HORRIBLE!!! Not one, NONE of their products ever worked for the Coyote!!!

[@paullind6534]

Pro tip. Animals love living under decks that are 1 ft off the ground. Stamped concrete might be a cleaner option.

[@AwesomeFramers]

Definitely would have been my preference.

[@ricksirisko9582]

Saw-Shank redemption: perfect framing movie, cuz he was framed…😂

[@Tom-sd5ru]

What happened to old kyle

[@clintd3476]

@19:40 “Toight loike a toiger”

[@andrewjblack6]

Shawshank RedemptionI think??

[@nicoreijns2082]

Another pro tip: remember to buy the brown wood treatment and not the green. Ask me how I know...

[@robertva7511]

I spy an akribis tool belt. You like?

[@FredD63]

Nice wrap around deck … Material choice would have been something different. I would’ve tried to talk my customer in to …..

[@AwesomeFramers]

We did.........

[@User-y9t7u]

What would you want instead?

[@MultiFiggypudding]

I love blue collar comments…

[@FredD63]

@ I’m far from blue collar

[@OCReventsAndbuilds]

I can’t stand the brown lumber on that part of the US I travel and build fixed obstacle courses for schools, military, private etc etc and such a pain that lumber

[@steveharkins279]

The exact example why I don’t understand why DeWalt makes a hammer drill, while German SDS, which all of theses drills are licensed by everyone . Every hole is German STS, no mater manufacture, anything else is a waste of time.

[@curiouscat3384]

Pro tip: don't pretend to be something you're not. you are NOT Erik Perkins

[@chrisclements1169]

PT is as you say, super annoying. Never figured out why it has to be that way.

[@tw3235]

The kid walks like he's on a sunday walk.

[@staffnutter]

The German translation is super fast and the video is unwatchable

[@Sjwolosz321]

Looks like Liberace and Clay Aiken had a son that decided to play carpenter .. I can't watch this .

[@AwesomeFramers]

Thanks for the compliment

[@petemohanco414]

Man this new generation sucks lol. How that kid uses that hammer reminds me of guys I have and drives me nuts. Hit the thing with some purpose dude come on

[@AwesomeFramers]

@@petemohanco414 summer down, he's less than a month in.

[@petemohanco414]

@ it doesn’t take less than a month to learn how a hammer works lol. No knock on you guys we all have to work with what we’re given. I wouldn’t be commenting if I didn’t watch your stuff man.

[@AwesomeFramers]

@@petemohanco414 I hear you, but I disagree for a few reasons. One is that we just don't use hammers as much as when I started. I spent my first summers using a hammer before a nail gun. Now its the opposite. A month isn't very long to learn to use a hammer when its barely used. There is an art to swinging and it takes a lot of repetition. Will Holladay has a book that devotes pages to the art of the hammer swing.

[@petemohanco414]

No worries dude we all don’t have to agree about everything. It’s nice how positive you are. I should prob take some lessons lol.

[@AwesomeFramers]

@@petemohanco414 I have a theory that we all agree in 99.9% of things, do you agree? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'll buy you a beer or drink of your choice if we ever meet.

[@Macktruck50]

you guys are slow it should have been setting rafters by now

[@randykurfurst8419]

Why is there a 12 yo in his fairy princess pajamas giving framing vids?

[@markdalton55]

Andy Dufresne and his buddy Red. Did they ever say Red’s last name? “Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’!” ❤️🫡