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You need an engineer and not one from this site - which is not meant to provide free engineering services for situations like this.

I don't quite understand how you envision the wood framing to be configured, but wood framing does not seem like the way to go here. As...

Water is heavy. Have your builder hire an engineer. What if you were standing outside the leg that fell?

SE2607 - I just used 100 psf as it is the general "public assembly" in the code. I agree with your assessment that it seems a lot. But...

All I would offer the owner would be to visually investigate the condition of the structure, verify whether it had a rational load path...

I'd still be tempted to go with 100 psf. Think of the crazy parties that might attract shoulder-to-shoulder people. At the very least...

Well a deck built and put there for the accumulation of people is a deck occupancy for simple live load. That would be, in my book, a...

We've always used the duration of load factor (DLF) applicable to each load combination used. So for your D+L check you'd use 1.0 For a...

As Flotsam suggests, the vast majority of residential single family homes (in the U.S. at least) have very little, if any, structural...

TRAK - good point and good sketch but most homes have horizontal ceiling joists just inside that could potentially eliminate the upward...

Call a local geotechnical engineer. A structural engineer might work as well.

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Sometimes just going to the building and measuring the rib spacing and widths is necessary.

If the plan shows 5" joists at 25" o.c. then the pans are 20" wide pans spaced to provide a 5" wide rib.

I don't think anyone has said it yet, but you cannot shoot a pin through an angle into the deck. The pin is shot from above, through the...