Massive Tile Inlay Deck on Steel Framing 🦾

[@UncleIvan1]

Looks great 👍

[@ravinbuilders]

@@UncleIvan1 thanks man!!

[@jquerker]

Impressive to watch all the hard work and details. Easy to see you love what you do. 🙌🏼 ❤ 🧰

[@ravinbuilders]

@@jquerker appreciate your belief in the team. Thank you ❤️

[@scotsheffield3395]

So much great information ❤

[@davidsilliman1672]

Loving the longer form content

[@ravinbuilders]

@@davidsilliman1672 thank you man!! We’re excited

[@ericdelay5269]

Loved it. ❤ Great content man!

[@ravinbuilders]

Thanks so much man 🫶

[@zach.b.nimble]

Brandon can swing a camera with the best of them. Decks looking sweet and that corndog x bonesaw remix was superb

[@ravinbuilders]

@@zach.b.nimble all facts!

[@lukecarm84]

Cool stuff man, good to see it’s still possible to f up a stringer with steel! 😂

[@ravinbuilders]

@@lukecarm84 😂😂 except I was able to cut the bottom rise off and use it lol

[@lukecarm84]

@ atta boy, there’s always a way . I’m a deck builder in Omaha, really wanting to get one of these on the schedule, looks like a sweet system. great content though, love the KZbin stuff.

[@marshallz4]

first im even seeing this fortress framing. wow. looks stronger and easier than ye olde p.t. lumber

[@ravinbuilders]

@@marshallz4 it’s a great system, super light too for the spans they can achieve. You can build a 20x20 deck with 2x6 joists spanned 16’ cantilever 4’ , 2 posts, and double beam full span.

[@thijegameworld2669]

You know what else is massive

[@ravinbuilders]

@@thijegameworld2669 my ego

[@jocool3744]

What app do you use for the stair calculator?

[@ravinbuilders]

@@jocool3744 Fortress has their own stair calculator for the adjustable stair bracket. The bracket has different pin holes and spacing combinations to cover the range of rise/run and different orientations.

[@jocool3744]

@ravinbuilders thanks

[@makokeith5289]

Thos is beautiful. What's to stop water from getting under the tiles and freezing? Popping them loose and or cracking?

[@ravinbuilders]

@@makokeith5289 it’s a draining tray and flexible adhesive. Worst case is re applying a tile down the road, but not likely.

[@bebbo_]

"We didn't do good." lol good job going with the flow and solving the problem. How does the cost of these steel frame deck systems compare to wooden construction? And how do the projected lifetimes compare? My guess is this is quite a bit more expensive but will last a lifetime.

[@ravinbuilders]

@@bebbo_ right! We build a project with steel for about 18% more. The framing itself is about 3-4x what lumber is but overall a 50k deck with wood is less than 60k to the client with steel.

[@justinrutledge6090]

Today i tried using that camo lever tool, i put my first board down with a screw an plug an straight, was using the camo horseshoe clips with the metal spacer, i laid 5 rows at once an then tried using the camo lever, it was wanting to put the board that i was using the tool against up on the joist some, also my 2nd boards gap is tighter then all the rest of them, the average 1/4 to 3/16? I had a camo lever every 4 ft an got em as tight as i could, the 5th row was dead parallel to my string just seemed weird that the spcing itself wasnt exact like when you use your speedsquare. Am i doing something wrong? Thanks

[@ravinbuilders]

Hey man, maybe a little too much force, but sometimes when we really have to bend the boards straight with the levers we will stand on the board being levered and just sing a plugged screw in the middle to pin it while we screw off the clips. The levers work well but sometimes you need to mess with your courses a little bit, but the clips should space 3/16 consistently.

[@justinrutledge6090]

@ravinbuilders i just want to say thank you for taking the time to respond, I think your doing some really nice work an you got alot of experience to ask questions about stuff, anytime it's the first time using something or trying something out will be some trial an errors until you can get a system figured out thats forsure.

[@ravinbuilders]

@ thanks man! My pleasure. If you ever have an immediate question the best place to reach me is instagram DM 🤙