[70SATMan]

I’ve done all my own work over the years and the deck won’t faze me. The whole house is beam on post with perimeter concrete foundation. I think they skimped a bit on the backside foundation as the front and sides are really beefy and we’ve had no cracking there. Cripple walls all the way around with nearly 5’ of crawl space along the back. I actually built a lighted under house storage under there. Sub floor is all 2x8 t&g and with the cripple walls, I’ll go through the walls with a beam across the corner and jack from the outside.

Thanks for the advice on the depths for the underpinning and you’ve sold me on the ledger.

Now you have me second guessing my deck dimensions, lol. Had planned one end for two small chairs and a bistro table and the other end for a lounge chair. Something about the long narrow design with the low ranch lines of the house is still appealing. Maybe one end out to 8’, who knows. With my wife involved in the design, one thing for sure, it’s lible to change several times before I start digging footings.