Our deck just showed up.

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Originally Posted by forgop

How many square feet will the deck be? Looks like it'll be pretty nice.

Right around 640 sq. ft.

Originally Posted by Mattso3000

The support beams look great, how are they going to be attached to the footings? Or is this going to be completely free floating? Huge deck, looks like it's going to be great when done.

The deck is free floating, which by definition means it's not attached to the house. It's attached to the 8" round-48" deep pilings with hurricane clips. If you don't fasten a deck down, it just amounts to a big airplane that'll fly away in the first windstorm. That'd suck something awful.