Deck builders are invited to weigh in on a proposal that would raise the IRC's minimum design load for decks from 40 psf to 60 psf. This one of several deck-related code provisions that will be under discussion when the ICC's Committee Action Hearing takes place in Albuquerque, N.M., the first week of May, says Glenn Mathewson in his latest NADRA code update. According to Mathewson, this proposal would potentially subject the entire country to building to a 70 psf snow load ... Florida would be building decks as they are built in the Rocky Mountains.
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