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G'day and welcome back to Buildsum and this is gonna be the first in a series of videos on building a deck

So a deck is quite a simple structure to build

however, there are a few simple steps and

Common mistakes that are made that will reduce

the

Safety and the longevity of the deck and because it's so simple. There's something a lot of handyman or DIY

guys try to have a go at and so this is just going to take if you

through a

few things that you need to know

So in this first video we're gonna have a look at the requirements so every

Council and every local area all have their own different requirements

These are obviously for the ones in my area

But just to make you aware of some stuff that you need to know before you start and then we'll get into the actual construction

of the deck and designing and

Picking the materials and you know how things go together and then what you can do to actually make the deck last longer

So the first thing you need to check when you start to build your deck is what your local council requires

Now in my area which is Sydney and generally in New South Wales

There's different levels of development and you can do small decks

Less than 20 square meters and less 1m off the ground

You don't need to go through council, that would actually qualify as an exempt development

basically anything bigger than that or anything higher off the ground and that there are

Safety requirements that come into play and the council will need you to submit a development application

it may go as a complying development application or it may need a full a full application depending on

the size and the height of the deck, but just be aware that

Councils do have regulations and they're different for every council area. If you want to have a look at the one for New South Wales

I'll put this link up in the description at the bottom of the video

But there is that New South Wales government

website and

Documents that will give you all that information. So the first thing you need to do is check your council comments

Second thing is your bushfire requirements. If you are in a bushfire area, you will need to make sure that

You have the right materials for your deck. So we're going to talk a lot about treated timber in this series of videos

but that may not be

applicable or may not be accurate or

Acceptable in your area if you have a fairly high bushfire

Danger, so you need to check what bushfire area you are and that will determine

The materials that you can use for your deck

And the last requirement or the main requirement is termites so

The requirements for termites are that the deck must either be

constructed from naturally termite resistant Timbers in accordance with Appendix C in AS3660.1

So things like white Cypress pine and some of your hardwoods are naturally termite resistant, but obviously they're pretty expensive

And that may be if you are in a bushfire area, you may have to use some of those hardwoods

However the

Common

Alternative is the second point they're constructed from preservative treated timber in accordance with appendix D

AS3660.1

okay, so that's your

LSOP treated so your mainly H3 and H4

timber that you would be using

Because H3 is for external use and H4 for in contact with the ground. So they're the ones we commonly use

Or the other alternative is to have a termite barrier

that protects the primary building elements installed in accordance with

AS 3660.1 as well. Now the method that I'm going to show you sort of incorporates both of those. I always use

Preservative treated timber but I always also install the termite barrier as well

Pretty much because it's built in and it's not that hard to do

okay, so

What we're going to do next we're just going to move on I'll show you the

the piers and how the termite barriers work and then

the next little step in building the deck

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