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Chris
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A while back I had a thread about building a deck off the second floor of my shop. It came up on how I needed to use 6x6 instead of 4x4 for my supports and it got me thinking of why? As I look around town about 99 percent of decks and the very large one on my house all have 4x4 posts yet that is somehow taboo now days. I am wondering why? I looked up the verticle strength of a 4x4 and it is somewhere around 4400 pounds. My large deck has two in the center and the outside edges sit on a stem wall, the deck is about 28 feet x 12 feet. It's sturdy and has no movement. I am wondering why the new code would call for such an over build on posts?