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All About Deck Code Compliance

When you’re building a residential wood deck, the International Residential Code® (IRC®) contains prescriptive and performance requirements to ensure it’s safe and strong. The Prescriptive Residential Wood Deck Construction Guide (DCA6) provides prescriptive methods for single-level residential decks to meet the provisions of the 2015 edition of the IRC.

Deck Connection and Fastening Guide

Our Deck Connection and Fastening Guide
(F-DECKCODE) provides excerpts of the connection-related code requirements, and typical hanger, fastener and anchor solutions that can be used to meet IRC code requirements.

Connection Solutions to Meet the DCA6 Prescriptive Residential Wood Deck Construction Guide Technical Bulletin

Our new technical bulletin, Connection Solutions to Meet the DCA6 Prescriptive Residential Wood Deck Construction Guide (T-C-DCA6DECK), lists specific model numbers of hangers, fasteners and anchors to meet the DCA6 provisions.

Additional Literature: Our wide array of literature features product guides, installation instructions, safety tips and more. Easily search to find the helpful deck content you are looking for.

Strong-Tie Deck Center

If you’re looking for ideas, inspiration and design resources, visit our Deck Center, which features deck planning and design tools as well as product information and safety tips that will help you get started on building a safe, strong and stylish deck.