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I bought this little house in 2000 and always planned on having a deck and hot tub. Most of Austin is on 3 inches of hard soil over a deep limestone shelf. Digging holes for any reason is a challenge if not impossible, so I was very interested in the floating deck system when I first saw it at Home Depot.

For years I looked for a way to replace the old wooden steps our builder had constructed at the back of our house with something more elegant. We considered a patio, but because the doors from our sunroom and breakfast room face each other at 90 degrees and were so close together, anything that didn’t include a large elevated landing just didn’t look right. Such a landing made a stone patio project very difficult and expensive.

My yard was severely sloped. In order to put in the pool we had to put in two retaining walls. The 1st retaining wall is only 3” behind the pool.

We built the deck right up to the retaining wall. So the height of the deck plus the height of the retaining wall, makes it a long drop off the back of the deck.

For years I looked for a way to replace the old wooden steps our builder had constructed at the back of our house with something more elegant. We considered a patio, but because the doors from our sunroom and breakfast room face each other at 90 degrees and were so close together, anything that didn’t include a large elevated landing just didn’t look right. Such a landing made a stone patio project very difficult and expensive.

My yard was severely sloped. In order to put in the pool we had to put in two retaining walls. The 1st retaining wall is only 3” behind the pool.

We built the deck right up to the retaining wall. So the height of the deck plus the height of the retaining wall, makes it a long drop off the back of the deck.

For years I looked for a way to replace the old wooden steps our builder had constructed at the back of our house with something more elegant. We considered a patio, but because the doors from our sunroom and breakfast room face each other at 90 degrees and were so close together, anything that didn’t include a large elevated landing just didn’t look right. Such a landing made a stone patio project very difficult and expensive.