Why Connect Your Deck to Mobile Home

Phil walks you through why you should always connect a deck to the mobile home. Between wind, weather, water damage, if you don't connect the deck, you end up with a wobbly deck and major damage to that deck.

⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️
00:00 Intro
00:12 Why we hook the deck to the mobile home
00:38 Some cities have ordinances about it.
00:57 You build so the deck carries it's own weight
01:19 What happens if you DON'T connect it to the house?
02:20 Connect it to the house
03:00 We re level houses and have 30+ years experience
03:17 What do you do when you build an addition? Connect it to the house.
03:40 I have noticed with people who complain...

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Transcript:
I uh, from time to time, I get comments and, and I know where it comes from that you should. The carpenters are saying you're not supposed to hook up a deck or porch to a mobile home. And I understand that comes from the idea that the deck itself will pull mobile home down, out of level. First of all, I'm not trying to make those guys wrong.

Some cities have ordinance on it, and they make rules about anything. So first of all, a mobile home will get out a level, anyway. You want to make sure that you understand not to put up a deck so that it will put weight on the mobile home. So you build it and if you want some, my deck builds if you build it, you build it so that it carries its own weight.

And one of my decks of the owners have taken to. to be able to build an addition on. So it's built so well that the additions can be built on it and it's connected to the house. Now, what happens if you don't connect it to the house? Now you can build a beautiful deck, brace it really well, really straight wood.

But guess what? That would change is because it's not got anything to keep it out of the weather. And this is what happens: see in the video, show up there at the top. The whole deck moves around. Is that something you want? Oh, well, now you can put braces on it and stop. But I'm going to tell you right now, those four by fours, they didn't buy them crooked.

Like that. They became crooked because they're not fastened to anything and they'll do. I've had pressure treated wood, which is now treated with a lot of water. I've had decking, five forced decking boards, just pop up and break the screws. So what I'm going to tell you right now is build the deck, right? So it will support its own weight.

Connect it to the house. Connect it to the house. That way, you won't have water running down inside your own porch, which you put up here to keep water from getting on you. And generally, what I would do is go underneath this right here so I could take flashing and go underneath there. Over on top of this. But first thing I want to do is fasten this to the house so we can get a good firm connection and not have somebody build this thing really nice. Didn't connect to the house like they were told not to.

The house has still got its issues. And I'm telling you, you can connect it to the house. I know there's going to be people tell you, you can't, but I've been doing it for 28, getting near 30 years. I've not had any house to be pulled down. And I re level houses. I've not had any house to be pulled down by deck that I've built.

And when you build in addition, guess what? You connect it to the house. You don't build it separately. It's connected to the mobile home. You wouldn't have a little air gap or problems with the bugs getting in or anything else. So I defer you to look at what I've done instead of listening to people who don't have any content.

And notice something else. People who complain are people who don't have anything at risk, who don't have any content. They may actually be better than I am, but they're not willing to risk to show you how to do things they're not willing to do that. Okay. If they were, they're too busy building in and giving content to people so that they can learn to busy to do that.

And like me, I would never go to somebody else's video and make all kinds of bad comments. I would never do that. That's somebody that's miserable to live with.