No heavy equipment. no sledge or jack hammers. no digging. no mixing cement.

Thanks to the Titan Building Products' Deck Foot Anchor™ anyone can effortlessly install ground anchored deck footings at a fraction of the cost of concrete footings.

If your deck can be Free Standing - not attached to the ledger of your house - and 80% or more of all residential decks can be - you are going to love this product.

Just use an electric impact wrench and easily drive the anchor down - or reverse if necessary.

It is a far more secure system, for floating decks as low as 2" to as high as 6' or 7' (with proper bracing) above the ground, walkways, sheds or other lightweight structures, than concrete blocks.

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Prepare and level the area, about 24" (60 cm) square by removing any sod and laying down a few inches of ½" and smaller crushed stone (not clean).  Stone dust is ideal.

This compacts nicely and is porous so that water can drain freely without eroding soil.

WARNING: If your soil is full of rocks or roots, you likely will not be able to use this kind of system or any spike system for that matter.

Fit a 12mm six point socket over the hex headed end.  (A  ½" will work, but it is not recommended because it's a bit loser and you might strip the hex drive head.) 

Drive the anchor down until the welded stop washer on the auger shaft is almost in contact with the soil.  Stop and put the load plate over the drive head.  Set it on the stop washer. Put the lock washer on top of the plate and turn the nut onto the threaded rod until the hex drive head is full exposed.  

Drive the anchor down again until the cap plate contacts the ground and the underside of the upper nut.  Once you feel tension in the auger, stop driving it.

Fit a 24mm or 1" six point socket and turn the nut until it fully compresses the load plate against the stop washer underneath the plate. 

Stop turning the nut as soon as you feel the plate has contacted the stop washer. This compresses the plate on the surface below.

Warning: Make sure the plate is perpendicular to the the auger so it will seat firmly on the stop washer.

Put the post saddle over the drive rod and adjust it laterally.  Put the second washer over the drive rod and turn the second nut on to the rod.  Fit a 24mm socket over the nut and tighten it until the saddle is locked in its final position.

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You Have No Idea What You Are In For

Unless you are an experienced carpenter, do not try to attach your deck to a ledger on an existing home. 

Properly attaching a ledger board to an existing home can be a major task.  If the ledger is built during the construction of the house then all the details like flashing and siding are so much simpler.

This Is A Simple Example

This ledger was installed after the house was built.  The exterior was vinyl siding so much easier to deal with then brick, stucco or cementitious fiber board.  But this was still a big job. 

The rim and floor joists were engineered I-beams so the very first difficult task is to determine exactly where the rim joist is and remove the siding to match it.

Then each space between the joists had to be block with 2x8 material because the rim joist was OSB board.

Double Overlapping Flashing Is Essential

The first layer of flashing extends from under the ledger to at least 4" above the cut line of the siding.  The second layer slides over this layer and will hang over the ledger board with a drip edge to direct water down.

Go up high enough under the existing siding to ensure things stay dry.  If you are dealing with a masonry facade you have a ton more work to do and that is a lesson all unto itself.

Carefully Avoid Other Obstacles

Complicating this job was a natural gas line that the gas grill was going to connect to.  This ledger had to be accurately cut to fit perfectly.

Building a free standing deck with the Titan Deck Foot Anchor avoids all of these issues.  And thankfully the vast majority of residential decks can be freestanding.

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The Rule of Thumb is 6'-0" apart for each footing.  This corresponds to a design load of 50 psf and tributary areas over each footing of 36 sqft. 

So the total load imposed on the soil below each footing would be a maximum of 1800 psf as the footing is just slightly larger than 1 sqft.

Not sure how many footings you will need?  No worries, try this Footings Calculator.  You input the dimensions of your deck and the estimated soil bearing capacity and it will show you the number of footings so you do not exceed the soil's load capacity.

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This was a large multi-level deck that really shows off the usefulness of the Deck Foot Anchor™. Three separate areas. All intricately designed to wrap around a hot tub spa and create intimate areas.

The first area was off the back patio door about 3-1/2' high. The others were lower level platforms over a gradual grade sloping away from the house.

All 24 footings were installed before lunch hour.

Can you imagine the work involved if we had to dig and cement for this job?

Another building benefit is being able to use the Deck Foot Anchor™ to easily drop beams within 2" of the grade. Try doing this with a block...

Low set beams

You can also hang joists from beam face to beam face if your really wanted to hide all the beams of a low level deck. That is next to impossible to do with blocks.

First, if we used concrete blocks we would have had trouble figuring out how to get the deck joist framing as low to the ground because they sit higher.