Robert was repairing a deck three months ago. This deck was about 13 miles from Chesapeake Bay in a Baltimore suburb. The joist hangers had severe corrosion. He reached out to me one day and said ...

"Posts should not rot if you're using properly treated pine," Reeder says. Joist hangers hold the deck's floor joists to the ledger board and the rim joist on the opposite side of the deck.