Precast Concrete Deck Pier

Hi, I'm Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com and I want to show you a concrete deck or porch pier. Look at this. See that right there? That is a, right here, this is a concrete deck pier and of course this big treated lumber deck post is resting on top of it in a special bracket

But come here, I want to show you something. Look at this

You're not going to believe what you're going to see. Because most of that deck pier, it's hidden underground

And you know what? This is the actual deck pier that I was just showing you, and the only part of it that

you saw was this little part right here, from about here on up

And this is a precast concrete deck pier that five foot tall And the reason that it five feet tall is because here in New Hampshire the frost level is four feet down So you have to make sure that the bottom of the pier is at least four feet down so that the frost doesn push it up out of the ground Now here an interesting thing about these precast concrete piers there pros and cons The actual pier in

2010 dollars only cost a little over a hundred dollars and they charged about thirty dollars

to deliver it. And if you try to price out what you would spend in concrete and other

materials and time to form that, I think you'd be shocked that you could do it for that amount

of money. Now, the only problem is that this particular precast pier weighs about 2,000

pounds and you need a crane or a backhoe to install it for you. So that's the offset

But if you're on a job site where you've got access to one of those machines and they're already there, consider one of these precast concrete deck piers. I'm Tim Carter for AskTheBuilder.com

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