Can't say I' a fan of piercing a perfectly good building envelope to fix a stringer to the side of the house, through the house cladding. Far prefer to build the deck completely seperate from the house. Needs a bit more timber and bracing, but the house cladding remains unmolested. Here, we have some BS prescribed method of 12mm spacing, special rubber washers, etc, for the stringer fixing to house. Gives me the hebejebees.
Not saying this is the case in this post, but just a sideways tangent. Designing a deck that will pass muster with the council is on my holiday work list. It'll be on 10" joists on 8 or 10" bearers, braced, anchored, and stand-alone without any direct fixing to the house. I also feel it my duty to remove as many shiny bits of metal as possible because I just hate the BS dependence on proprietary fixings, having recently spent over $2k on the bloody things to keep the council magpies happy on a reno.
