Boardwalks and decks seldom fail because the designer has miscalculated member size. Rather premature degrade is usually associated with the failure to attend to many small points of detail. This book explains these details and illustrated what happens when best practice is not followed.To guide the designer through a maze of little known and understood details that are often overlooked, this guide includes a design checklist which you will find very helpful.This work includes over 100 images and a number of case histories. Also included is a step by step explanation of how to lay out a commercial deck