Flashing pics

Erik here, blogsphere. Today's lesson, flashing! It's important to flash properly so that our children can enjoy the same things we do. Without flashing, our load bearing members can become fatigued and rot. Today I capped my posts with aluminum flashing.

This flashing will protect my posts from water, and coupled with the new way of bracketing the bottom of the posts to concrete instead of burying them, this deck could potentially outlive me. I also added yet another longitudinal truss in this picture, it's flush with a joist so it doesn't need to brace against a bridge, but I do have a bridge on the next gap which should help keep things pretty stiff. Hehe... stiff...